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Voting Lessons from Nonprofit Recruitingland

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Elections beg the question of how to rate candidates and cast votes for them. Our collaborations with nonprofit boards on CEO searches have taught us a thing or two about voting for candidates, and here are four voting lessons learned that will be useful this Election Day.

Running an Effective Nonprofit CEO Search

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Nonprofit CEO searches are infrequent, and most board members experience such a seminal event just once during their service to a particular nonprofit. This article provides a useful orientation for when that moment arrives.

Running Effective Searches for a Nonprofit’s C-Suite

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Departures from a nonprofit’s c-suite can destabilize your org financially and operationally due to a nonprofit’s relatively lean executive bench, so it’s important to have the search for a replacement underway quickly.

Nonprofits Should NOT Use Contingency Recruiters

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Use of contingency recruiting often wastes time & money and harms nonprofits – don’t do it.

Succession Planning & Management for Nonprofits – Part 1: Distinctive Challenges

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Nonprofit board members and CEOs commonly raise succession planning as a key concern. A central role of any nonprofit board and CEO is managing risk to the nonprofit they steward on behalf of their community. When a chief executive or key leader exits an organization, there is loss of continuity, knowledge, management skill and subject matter expertise.

Succession Planning & Management for Nonprofits – Part 3: Practical Tips & Tools

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Staff and board succession planning does not have to be mysterious, emotionally fraught, expensive or complicated. Here are a few practical tips & tools you can apply today as you plan staff and board succession for your nonprofit, and you can always call us for added guidance.

The online VISIBILITY ECONOMY hurts nonprofit orgs & careers… and we must play anyway.

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Let’s discuss the negative impact of reliance on tech that “disappears” nonprofit orgs and candidates unless they pay.

On Art: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was about us all!

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Within Bad Bunny’s 2026 Superbowl Halftime show I see my extended family and friends.

Creating and Running a Nonprofit CEO Search Committee

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Our search consultants are routinely asked by nonprofit boards and their exiting chief executives about setting up a nonprofit CEO Search Committee. Below we’ll thoroughly discuss the Search Committee and its role, and at the end of this piece there are links to other useful articles on recruiting nonprofit leaders.

Preparing for a Job Search

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People hiring who don’t already know you, have specific needs. They must quickly…

Writing a Cover Letter

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Once you have a resume you need an introduction. Your introduction is the cover letter. It can be delivered via email, a PDF document or by filling out a section on a job application.

Writing a Resume

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Career-disrupting forces are at work in today’s economy, causing nonprofit, business and government leaders to reassess and reset their orgs and careers. Changes to government policy and funding, consumer tastes, tariffs and rollout of AI across sectors combine into a perfect storm of factors leading to career changes and organizational challenges.

Why have an Inclusive and Diverse Workforce?

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America has a history of embracing and disparaging difference, be it difference in race, gender, identity, language, religion, ability/disability, age, or other such markers of individuality.

Reshaping Nonprofits for Challenging Times

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To get ahead of rapidly changing funding and operating circumstances, nonprofits must quickly reset and reshape their organizations for these challenging times.

A thousand resumes walk into a bar…

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Real people are being reduced to data points in a way that was never before possible. This has certain negative consequences that should be managed, especially when recruiting CEOs and other c-suite executives.

The Search Committee Chair’s Role in Managing the CEO/ED Search Endgame

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In the latter stages of any CEO search or other major transition, a nonprofit will sometimes experience leading indicators of doubt among board, staff and even candidates. At this point the Search Committee Chair can play a decisive role in helping the parties to successfully navigate the search endgame.

Analyzing Resumes when Hiring Nonprofit Executives

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Hiring season is in full gear, which means that nonprofit boards and CEOs will soon be busy analyzing resumes of execs they might hire.

Succession Planning & Management for Nonprofits – Part 2: Costs and Tradeoffs

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Staff and board transitions can advance or threaten a nonprofit’s public benefit mission and financial strength. The central challenge of replacing a chief executive or senior team member is budgeting transition costs. Such costs can be substantial.

AIs and Recruiting: How AI Affects Recruiting | Part 1

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The pitfalls of over-reliance on AI and algorithmically driven recruiting platforms.

AIs and Recruiting: AI-Produced Resumes, Cover Letters, and Content | Part 3

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Our two-part AI and Recruiting article seemed enough for a quick read on the topic. We’ve received positive feedback on how it helps boards and leaders navigate the new recruiting challenges introduced by various recruiting platforms. We thought we were done.

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Voting Lessons from Nonprofit Recruitingland

Running an Effective Nonprofit CEO Search

Running Effective Searches for a Nonprofit’s C-Suite

Nonprofits Should NOT Use Contingency Recruiters

Succession Planning & Management for Nonprofits – Part 1: Distinctive Challenges

Succession Planning & Management for Nonprofits – Part 3: Practical Tips & Tools

The online VISIBILITY ECONOMY hurts nonprofit orgs & careers… and we must play anyway.

On Art: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was about us all!

Creating and Running a Nonprofit CEO Search Committee

Preparing for a Job Search

Writing a Cover Letter

Writing a Resume

Why have an Inclusive and Diverse Workforce?

Reshaping Nonprofits for Challenging Times

A thousand resumes walk into a bar…

The Search Committee Chair’s Role in Managing the CEO/ED Search Endgame

Analyzing Resumes when Hiring Nonprofit Executives

Succession Planning & Management for Nonprofits – Part 2: Costs and Tradeoffs

AIs and Recruiting: How AI Affects Recruiting | Part 1

AIs and Recruiting: AI-Produced Resumes, Cover Letters, and Content | Part 3

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