After School
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Culture
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Human Resources
This business officer provides financial literacy training to students after school hours. Parents want even more.
4 min read
By aligning around a compelling vision of its “mission-appropriate customer,” this small school clarified its message, focused its outreach and grew enrollment by 82 percent.
5 min read
Little-known rule lets qualifying schools limit donor reporting to contributions larger than the standard $5,000 threshold.
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Nonprofit independent schools must address two accounting standard updates, one before the start of the new fiscal year and the other the year after, in most cases.
10 min read
Strategies
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
The case for extending education and professional development to our schools’ security officers.
5 min read
Neighbors have the power to make or break schools’ expansion plans. “It’s mission-critical to be active with the town.”
12 min read
This outspoken change agent says independent schools can do better for their students, themselves and the industry collectively. That means ditching traditional transcripts, merging in oversaturated markets and “pooling
14 min read
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Crisis Management
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Safety and Security
Following a year of widespread natural disasters, independent schools update their crisis management plans.
13 min read
Governance is not something that is baked and done. It is organic and requires constant attention, time and resources to yield the best results.
4 min read
This person can be a “three-fer,” providing leadership in the business office, the perspective of a consultant and guidance in the hiring of the new CFO.
12 min read
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Governance
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Key Governance
Board orientation and engagement get an upgrade as fiduciary responsibilities and risk exposures intensify.
8 min read
Initial reporting from BIIS data-collection platform reveals modest declines in schools’ financial footing. Is the trend real — or a temporary illusion?
3 min read
