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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Peter Drucker stressed the importance of strategic recruitment, emphasizing the need to select individuals based on their competencies, character, and dedication. Tailoring your recruitment efforts to find individuals whose skills and expertise align with your organization’s mission is fundamental.

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From Gig Work to Good Work: How Workforce Policy Can Support Gig Workers

NonProfit Quarterly

The Need for a Systemic Alternative Despite the prevalence of gig work, workforce agencies’ training, support, recruitment, and data-gathering efforts remain focused on traditional, standard employment. In the pilot, recruitment ended when we reached 1,200 more work seekers than immediately available employment opportunities.

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Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members?

Affnetz

We have several blog posts on recruiting board members and engaging your board members, so this post will focus on the job description. Use the board member job description when you’re recruiting board members and in annual meetings with existing board members. Provide candid and constructive criticism, advice, and comments.

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[Question Marc] Conversation starters for cold calls

Fundraising Coach

So tell them you have something to show them (an annual report, blueprints of construction, a video thank you from families helped). Question Marc] How do I recruit new board members? If you really need to meet with them, then this phone call is 100% about setting up the appointment. c) The Fundraising Coach, LLC.

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How to keep a development director more than 18 months

Affnetz

Be Candidly Constructive When Hiring a Development Director. Make sure when you recruit board members they know they have to donate. This post will cover a few key things related to keeping your Development Director on board, invested, and there for the long term (or at least five years!). A Functioning Fundraising Committee.

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Partnership Lessons From Rome's Colosseum ; Booking.com Creates ‘Travel Proud’ Program for LGBTQ+ Community ?? ; Black Rifle Coffee: Socially Conscious, Politicly Incorrect ??

Selfish Giving

The House of Medici , the Italian banking family, funded the construction of Saint Peter’s Basilica 500 years ago. This Boston nonprofit is recruiting new donors by pitching them like a start-up might pitch an investor. Old meets new. While supporting public treasures is new for modern Rome, it isn't a new idea and has ancient roots.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated. Build the responsible recruitment industry.