Recruitment
How to Persuade a New Generation to Join Your Nonprofit’s Board
Highlighting the personal and professional benefits of serving on your nonprofit’s board can help you make the role more appealing to younger candidates.
7 Ideas for Pushing Your Board Forward in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Practical ideas on how to get on board with DEIB for your nonprofit and stay committed to ongoing honest assessments and effective action.
7 Ideas to Build a Healthy Board Nominating Process
The nominating process is vital to creating a healthy and stable nonprofit. Use these tips to help you nominate engaged, strong board members for your organization.
Ten Ways to Improve Equity & Increase the Effectiveness of Your Hiring Process
How resource-strapped nonprofits can set themselves apart from countless other companies trying to hire from the same applicant pool.
Up Your Game with Skills-based Volunteering
Specialized volunteers can come from organizations that recruit those seeking opportunities for organizations in need of specialized help.
Developing a Successful Intern Program
Could your nonprofit benefit from hiring interns? Find out the plusses and pitfalls of an intern program & take our Blue Avocado quiz to see if you’re ready.
Successfully Navigating an Executive Director Transition
How do you successfully transition from one Executive Director to another? This first person account highlights how to do it right.
Reducing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
Is unconscious bias impacting your hiring decisions and the diversity of your nonprofit staff?
4 Things Your Nonprofit Can Do to Recruit & Retain Millennial Leadership
Many nonprofits haven’t adopted policies and systems to attract young professionals, invest in their development, or incentivize them to stay.
If Your Board Looked Like Your Community
Moving board diversity from a ‘problem to solve’ to ‘something to practice.’ Staff and board talk common hurdles and how to overcome them.