Executive Service Corps of the Lehigh Valley

Executive Service Corps: Nonprofit organizations today face an ever increasing array of threats, challenges and opportunities. To achieve success in this environment these organizations must become even more “business-minded” than ever before. For the past 25 years and more the local affiliates of the ESC have applied proven business planning and management skills to the nonprofit sector. ESC affiliates assemble the best teams to help solve everyday nonprofit problems that consist of highly trained active and retired professionals who have years of experience in a variety of professional disciplines. The Executive Service Corps of the Lehigh Valley is no different.

ESCLV Mission: To assist nonprofit institutions in the Lehigh Valley become more successful through the use of the Executive Service Corps of the Lehigh Valley (ESCLV) volunteer management consultants.

The ESCLV: The Executive Service Corps of the Lehigh Valley was established in 1995. It is modeled after the National Executive Service Corp (NESC) in New York founded in 1977. Today, the ESCLV is one of 34 affiliates nationwide, but functions as a completely autonomous and independent organization with its own board of directors and staff. ESCLV currently offers experienced and professional consulting in the areas of strategic planning, board governance/development, financial management/fund raising, and market planning. With over 40 active volunteer consultants, ESCLV is able to provide two (2) consultants to each project. Although ESCLV does charge a fee, dependent upon an organization’s annual operating budget, it is minimal in comparison to the fees charged by commercial consultants and it is balanced by the high level of expertise represented by our volunteer consultants.

ESCLV Equals Experience: The Board of Directors represents a cross-section of experiential talent that forms a firm base for guiding the mission of this organization:

ESCLV Clients Served: The following is a partial list of clients ESCLV has served:

2006-2007 Clients
Casa Guadalupe Center	Mayfair Festival of the Arts
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley	Cetronia Ambulance Corps
Volunteers of America	Adult Literacy Center
The ARC	The Wellness Community
Jewish Community Center	Allentown Art Museum
Life Academy	Council Of Spanish Speaking Organizations L.V.
America On Wheels Museum

ESCLV Vision: There are nearly 2,000 nonprofit organizations is the greater Lehigh Valley area. ESCLV is positioning itself to adequately serve the potential needs of this census. Drawing on the success of many ESC affiliates across the United States, the ESCLV is structuring and organizing itself using as models the best of these affiliates. ESCLV has a core of committed actively employed and retired professionals who have the desire to see this enterprise succeed and the skills to accomplish their goal.  This group represents an intellectual pool of talent and commitment that will allow each person to make a difference in the lives of other individuals, their community, and society as a whole. The sign of the times today for all nonprofits is to do more with less. This fact demands that ESCLV work harder for our clients as well as, smarter. Focusing each volunteer professional’s expertise to assisting our community’s nonprofit organizations will help us achieve our corporate mission and our individual desires.