Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

During a given month, a freelance writer might tackle a newsletter for a nonprofit, content for a small business web site, and a procedure manual for a global corporation, working on each for a few hours or a few days at a time. Freelancers direct their own work and are usually paid by the job.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 21, 2006

Perhaps you have had some experience giving your time and efforts to local nonprofit organizations, but find something lacking in the experience. This article will introduce you to a higher level of community involvement: joining a nonprofit Board of Directors. Use this as an opportunity to ask about the organization.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2007

For a nonprofit board of directors to succeed, the number one key ingredient is: Involvement. Do not recruit all of your board members from the same source, or you're likely to build a chorus of "yes-men" and stagnate under a lack of creativity. Involved boards lead successful nonprofit organizations.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM field s — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. They meet with external contacts or stay in touch with recruiters and headhunters in order to stay relevant in their industry.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

The business model of Generation, a youth employment nonprofit founded by McKinsey & Company, where we both work, is based on that assertion. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. Nor do they quantify the cost of high employee turnover.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

A well-respected HR manager in the public sector, leading his own recruitment team and earning a decent salary. Or Brandon, a rising star at a large, well-known nonprofit organization. Brandon took the leap and left his stable nonprofit job to seek a better work-life balance. Take Steve. How do you feel about risk? Take Brandon.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Targeted at the largely-male executive leadership, the program is run by the nonprofit Catalyst and covers topics such as privilege, unconscious bias, dominant culture, and gender role conditioning and its link to leadership.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 20, 2009

I know of very few people in the nonprofit sector who are here "just for a job." Those of us who've made a career of the nonprofit sector do it as part of our personal mission. Jobs for Change, a part of change.org , is looking to inspire and recruit the next generation of nonprofit leaders - those looking for a mission-driven career.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 15, 2007

A sizable majority of your community members, constituents, potential supporters, and neighbors are actively involved in helping nonprofit organizations achieve their missions. This means that we, as a sector, are doing a rotten job of either providing the right opportunities, or of promoting and recruiting for those opportunities, or both.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 13, 2008

Head on over to the VolunteerMatch web site and read the press release to find out more about National Volunteer Week, and how your nonprofit can tie into this promotion. million matches to the 56,784 local nonprofits registered with VolunteerMatch. Tags: volunteers Nonprofit. Since 1998, volunteers have generated just over 3.4

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 5, 2009

This is the question that has haunted many a nonprofit Executive Director and Development Director. That means that if a member normally makes $500 gifts to other nonprofits, they should give $750 or $1,000 to the nonprofit they're on the Board of. Tags: giving donors boards of directors Nonprofit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

This practice helps companies recruit and incentivize workers. For example, the nonprofit Truckers Against Trafficking engages those in the trucking industry in social entrepreneurship to help end human trafficking. It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

In a recent report , the World Economic Forum identified high skills instability across all job categories and acknowledged that most businesses currently face major recruitment challenges and talent shortages. as several national nonprofit initiatives, such as EveryoneOn , are delivering training at the local level.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

Start recruiting clients. All of that is a moot point until you have actual clients, so recruiting them should be your first priority. They could be executive education courses offered by universities, or programs offered directly by professionals about everything from creating online courses to becoming a recognized expert.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Value of Volunteers to Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations, by nature, often rely heavily on volunteers. We can learn how nonprofits harness the power of volunteers most effectively and use that information to motivate people at work in a similar fashion to achieve great things from even small contributions. Willem, A.,

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 24, 2021

I've been spending much of my social media time over at Quora, answering questions about nonprofit management and fundraising (and a few questions of a more political nature). What is the best step after setting vision and mission in strategic planning for a nonprofit organization? or, isn't it?) Still, I'm glad when I can help out.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 22, 2006

If these statistics are right, then it should be easier to ask for a donation than to recruit volunteers, and easier yet to find wealthier donors. Tags: nonprofit , volunteerism , donations , charity , fundraising , surveys

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 18, 2009

Has your nonprofit been overrun and overwhelmed recently with a flood of new volunteers? groused one nonprofit executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Taproot has had to scale back on their recruitment of professionals: “It’s like a Greek tragedy,” according to Lindsay Firestone, who manages pro bono projects for Taproot.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. Booz Allen Hamilton serves every federal executive department and most independent agencies, as well as some of the world’s leading non-governmental organizations and nonprofits.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2006

If you haven't run such a campaign for your nonprofit, you are certainly aware of the massive fundraising pitches that go out on the heals of any natural or man-made disaster. It is up to us, as nonprofit community leaders, to educate the public about the need for building emergency reserves of disaster supplies and cash.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 2, 2019

I took a lab class where a group of nine students from all areas of study (physics, biology, art history, business) came together to assess a nonprofit’s community impact and provide strategic recommendations to reach their long term objectives. She worked in government and nonprofit consulting in Washington, DC and Chicago.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's a quick look at six months of strategic, happy, thinking: The old mission statement: "We recruit, train and support volunteer host home families to shelter abused, neglected and at-risk children and youth." Tags: case studies branding vision Nonprofit success stories mission. But to what purpose? From process to outcome.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

Management consultants get the opportunity to work on challenging real world problems for companies, governments and nonprofits. Every year consulting firms hire new high achieving young graduates, meaning that recruits from last year must move up or move out. The joys of consulting. Consulting offers many attractive benefits.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

For nearly a decade, I worked at Catalyst , a nonprofit focused on helping women advance in the workplace, consulting with progressive companies who began investing in diversity initiatives in the ‘90s. Perhaps the most immediate impact was on our recruiters, who faced new sourcing and relationship challenges. referrals).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

A good producer should be someone who knows how to create a vision, recruit personnel, establish a timeline, raise money, and deliver products. In order to generate funds to help musicians in the city, I could have created a typical nonprofit organization that solicits people for money.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most think banks are part of an elite establishment that’s lost sight of the broader mission to serve customers and would prefer they operate more like nonprofits. The cornerstone of bank recruiting strategies should be experiential diversity enabled by a broad range of personal experiences and networks.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, one executive director of a nonprofit told me that when she was appointed to the position, after many years in the organization, long-time colleagues stopped inviting her to birthday celebrations and other social events. Finally, tell your senior team to push back when they disagree and to challenge your thinking.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Organizations, whether businesses or nonprofits, almost universally pursue growth. The business has a distinctive customer experience capability, a prowess at creating premium food and beverage products, and an ability to recruit and manage thousands of retail employees with high loyalty and low turnover.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2018

First, look at the careers section on the website, which usually lists members of the recruiting team comprised of the alumni of a specific university. Alumni of the same university are great but alumni of the same student organization or nonprofit that you are part of are even better. and this can change your career.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I once served on the board of a nonprofit with a group of men and women I deeply admired. For example, a board member makes pre-meeting calls to recruit two friendly members to her position on an issue. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Board meetings were an uninterrupted joy. It was Camelot. Until it wasn’t. The Openness Principle.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

Oliver Wyman recruits globally primarily from 100 of the most selective schools across five continents. Other Oliver Wyman consultants opt for a six-month nonprofit fellowship with a partner organization, while still enjoying up to 40% of their Oliver Wyman salary to make up for reduced compensation.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Harvard and Yale) are typically recruited on-campus. In fact, some attorneys even steered the lower-class candidates to less prestigious and lucrative sectors of legal practice, such as government and nonprofit roles, positions that tend to be more socioeconomically diverse than jobs at top law firms.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

The Vergara lawsuit was backed by Students Matter, a nonprofit educational policy advocacy group funded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch. Welch’s organization recruited the nine students, from several school districts, to serve as the public face of the case. Things are no better in New York as a whole.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 10, 2006

We were all recruited to be "activists" to gather signatures on petitions and get folks to join the organization. My first fundraising job was door-to-door canvassing for Campaign California, a now-defunct organization in Santa Monica, in the early 1980s. Of course, I didn't realize it was a fundraising job at the time.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Generating demand is unfamiliar territory for most nonprofits. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

That’s a question Jessica DeGroot sought to answer nearly 20 years ago when she started the nonprofit ThirdPath Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people find time for work, family, and life. Their strategies have since become the “ Vacation Checklist ” DeGroot shares with others at the nonprofit.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

With 8,000 employees across 56 offices, it accepts clients in private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Its engineering services portfolio is among the strongest of any consulting firm, and it is also known for its business lines in nonprofit and public sectors. Work-Life Balance. Work-Life Balance. Compensation/Benefits.

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