Who We Are

The nonprofit National Executive Service Corps since 1977 has been helping more than one thousand fellow nonprofits in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey solve their managerial and operational problems, operate more efficiently and seize strategic opportunities that can spur their growth – thus allowing them to serve their communities even better. This NESC does by bringing proven business planning and management skills to the nonprofit sector.

The full universe of nonprofits has looked to NESC for help: Cultural and performing arts organizations, hospitals and other health facilities, senior citizen homes and centers, museums, churches, human services and social services groups, individual schools and boards of education and even municipalities and government agencies.

Some NESC clients are huge, enjoying nine figure annual incomes. Others are much more modest, though no less dedicated to helping their communities, with a handful of staffers functioning on a very very tight budget. All receive the same high level of NESC services.

“Profit From Our Experience” is what NESC often says when introducing itself to potential clients. This, indeed, is an apt description of the extraordinary wealth of unique talent offered by the highly successful senior executives and professionals whom NESC recruits as Consultants to serve these clients.

Measuring NESC Experience

It is experience that can be measured by skills. NESC Consultants have been chief executives, architects, managing directors, chief financial officers, entrepreneurs, top fundraisers, law firm senior partners, information technology chiefs, human resource specialists and more.

It is experience too that can be measured by sectors. NESC Consultants have made their marks at the highest levels in marketing, banking, retailing, advertising, executive search, financial systems management, information technology and more.

And, of course, it is experience that can be measured by years or decades – or, actually, by centuries. The more than 300 Consultants on the NESC team boast some 160 centuries, or 16,000 years, of aggregate workplace experience – of solving problems, of building businesses, of inventing products, of introducing new processes, of pioneering new markets, of serving clients, of inspiring staffs, of wrestling with budgets, of outsmarting government bureaucrats, of designing and executing strategic plans.

How Clients Benefit

What all this experience means is that NESC clients always are served by only the first squad. Every NESC player is in the starting line-up. Each has stature. Each has standing. Each is seasoned. There are no junior members on the team.

NESC Consultants choose their projects. Working only on what they want rather than on what they are assigned, they bring a distinctive NESC hallmark to their projects: Enthusiasm, at times irrepressible. They also bring the patience to see an assignment through the inevitable speed-bumps and other unexpected problems to a successful end.

And, obviously, because NESC Consultants contribute their time, NESC fees are very low – far, far below those asked by for-profit commercial consulting firms.

In fact, the fees cover only about one-third of NESC’s staff and operating expenses. The rest, because NESC is itself a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, comes from charitable contributions from foundations, corporations and individuals.

Paul Barrett
Senior VP, Executive Search

Marvin Berenblum Chairman and CEO

Harmon Butler
Editor, NESC Newsletter

Timothy J. DeWerff
Vice President,
Development

Bill Evans
Chief architect

Jonathan Goldfarb Chief Financial Officer

Eleanor Holtzman
Chairwoman, Executive Committee of the Board

Andrey Kats
Technology Manager

Stephen Koller
Senior VP Education Consulting Group, Government Consulting Group & Religion Consulting Group

Betty Lefferts
Senior VP Arts Consulting Group

Maureen O’Donnell
Director Client Project Controls

Mary Ann Rivera
Staff Associate for Executive Search & Development

Jerry Schiller
President Health Care Consulting Group

Ira Schwartz
Chief Executive Officer

Sergio Sedita
Coordinator of Consultants

Barbara Taylor
Director, Development & Fundraising

Galina Vilkina
Comptroller

Betsy Weber
President

James Williams
Director, Leadership Training & Development