Great North Advantage: One-Stop Affordable Service for Nonprofits

EXETER, N.H., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Great North, the most trusted management firm in New England, introduces Great North Advantage, a full-service management team geared to servicing the nonprofit sector. Backed by Great North's 20 years of experience providing unsurpassed service, extensive knowledge of the marketplace and a team of dedicated administration and management professionals, GNA is poised to tackle the many challenges that distract nonprofits from the work of achieving their mission.

Great North Advantage is a one-stop service for handling all of a nonprofit's administrative and management needs, all for one affordable monthly fee. "Imagine the time the Executive Director of a nonprofit could redirect if she did not have to allocate it to accounting, building repairs or searching for the best price on supplies," noted Great North Advantage President Lou Gargiulo. "Great North Advantage works hard every day to ensure that nonprofit staff and Board of Directors remain focused on making a difference in our communities."

Great North Advantage specializes in managing communications between the Board, staff, vendors and any other partner working on behalf of the nonprofit organization. They are effective problem solvers who can help a nonprofit have an even greater impact in the community by offering shared administrative services:

The Great North Advantage financial management service provides nonprofits with a solid accounting system, a suite of financial services designed to deliver peace of mind, and quality peer review process. Great North Advantage leverages the expertise and experience of its reliable and agile administrative team to provide the most robust and transparent accounting and reporting process of any management firm in the industry. In 20 years of business, Great North has not lost one penny of client funds.

Great North Advantage provides property management services.

Great North Advantage maintenance service guarantees 24-hour emergency services with staff always on call to help clients solve such emergencies as leaking plumbing and raking snow-covered roofs.

GNA's administrative services address all of a nonprofit's human resource and legal needs. They can provide complete oversight of compliance and other regulatory matters and will act on behalf of every client as a complainant in legal matters.

Great North Advantage provides contractor procurement and management services to nonprofits.  Leveraging the purchasing power of Great North's 20 years in business serving nearly 200 associations, they can deliver competitive rates for premium service.

Christiane Casserly, Executive Director of the Rochester Child Care Center, credits Great North Advantage with saving her organization both time and money. "Karen from Great North has been instrumental in helping our agency pull together a complicated facilities project in a timely manner.  Professional contractors were immediately responsive to offer advice and bid on the project. Because of the information I obtained with Karen's help, I secured $23,000 in grant funding, and recently completed this long awaited project."

Wendy Monroe, Executive Director of the Great Bay Kids' Company, says, "Great North Advantage not only saved me 40% on a new fence, they made certain that the contractor showed up and completed the job on time."

"Great North is the glue that holds our administrative operation together.  I am able to focus on delivering high quality artistic productions without worrying about whether our ticket sales are accounted for correctly," added Craig Faulkner, Artistic Director, Seacoast Repertory Theatre.

For more information, please visit the Great North Advantage web site at www.greatnorthadvantage.com.

SOURCE Great North Advantage