NBOA Library

  • Human Resources
  •   |   Labor Law
  •   |   Risk Management

Retaining Focus on Your Mission Despite Employee Challenges

Feb 25, 2020, 1:48 PM
Schools need to guide employees to support the school’s mission and discipline employees who refuse to follow suit.
  • Budget
  •   |   Culture
  •   |   Facilities

Envision a Future with Effective Outsourced Relationships

Feb 25, 2020, 1:40 PM
As the independent school industry looks ahead, outsourcing provides effective ways to build capacity and reduce costs. Building great relationships with vendors can be challenging and time consuming.
  • Facilities
  •   |   Key Facilities
  •   |   Maintenance
  •   |   Planning

Campus Master Planning: a Thorough Exploration of the Campus

Feb 25, 2020, 1:36 PM
This session will walk you through the campus master planning process from start to finish — beginning with the RFP, a campus facility audit, committee structure, architectural selections, culture
  • Risk Management

Auditing Your Insurance Program: What's Not Covered and What to Do

Feb 25, 2020, 1:11 PM
In this interactive session, we will work through several scenarios addressing common risks that might not be covered by current insurance policies and ways to obtain coverage for these risks, either

Deep Dive: The Head of School and Business Officer Partnership

Feb 25, 2020, 1:07 PM
As strategic partners, a strong working relationship between the head of school and business officer is essential to an independent school’s success. In this session, the heads of school and business
  • Accounting
  •   |   Audit
  •   |   Key Accounting

Accounting Update With a Focus on Revenue Recognition Standards

Feb 24, 2020, 7:26 PM
An update focused on the upcoming accounting changes. These changes will include a new revenue recognition model for both contracts with customers and contributions received and made, lease accounting
  • Leadership
  •   |   Planning
  •   |   Research

Financial State of the Industry: BIIS 5-Year Trend Report 2015-2019

Feb 19, 2020, 11:37 PM
This report analyzes 18 indicators of independent schools’ financial health over five consecutive fiscal years. Based on data submitted by schools to NBOA’s BIIS data collection platform, it is the
  • Endowment
  •   |   Investments
  •   |   Key Endowment
  •   |   Research

2019 Commonfund Study of Independent Schools

Feb 18, 2020, 4:00 PM
This report presents the 2019 results from the Commonfund Study of Independent Schools endowment management practices and policies.
  • Crisis Management
  •   |   Pandemic
  •   |   Policy

Online Learning Guidelines in Event of Public Health Emergency

Feb 18, 2020, 2:58 PM
Sample guidelines from a member school, developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.This policy was provided by a member to assist other schools looking for guidance in creating their own
  • Forms
  •   |   Risk Management
  •   |   Technology

IT Vendor Checklist

Jan 29, 2020, 8:37 PM
This checklist was created by Mark Kirkpatrick, CFO at Parish Episcopal School, to confirm the security and trustworthiness of software and electronic applications used throughout the school. Each new
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