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A newsletter dedicated to increasing the capacity of nonprofits · January 2009

 
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Horizons for Homeless Children
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Higher Achievement Baltimore
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Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
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Waterville, Maine

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LAYC YouthBuild Public Charter School
Washington, DC

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Innovations for Poverty Action
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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
New York, New York

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The House of the Seven Gables
Salem, Massachusetts

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Center for Clean Air Policy
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Center for Clean Air Policy
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The Tobin Project
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Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Quincy (Boston), Massachusetts

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These are just a few of our current searches...

Executive Director
State-Boston Retirement System
Boston, Massachusetts

Dean of Admissions
Montserrat College of Art
Beverly, Massachusetts

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Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Quincy (Boston), Massachusetts

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The Family-to-Family Project
Boston, Massachusetts

Director of Development and Communications
The Young People's Project
Boston, Massachusetts

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Hands On Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut

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Experience Corps
Washington, DC

The Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group is constantly launching new searches. To hear about them first, sign up for our newsletter here.

Services for Nonprofits

We offer unbundled search services to those nonprofits that need highly tailored services or cannot afford fully retained search. Most of our clients choose a la carte from our offerings as their needs demand.

We provide packaged or hourly consulting in: job description preparation, outreach, resume screening, interviewing, reference checking, search committee management, and negotiation.

We are also available to train board and staff in any or all of these areas.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We make every effort to present diverse pools of qualified candidates for each search. Since 2007, we closed more than two thirds of our searches with women or minorities and close to a quarter with female minorities.

 

Hello!

Thank you for your interest in our employer newsletter.

In this edition, you'll find helpful tips, a feature article covering a topic central to hiring for nonprofits, as well as information regarding our consulting services. This newsletter is meant to help you in your hiring processes.

To that end, your feedback is appreciated so that we may continue to improve what we offer.

Searching for Talent in a New Economy

It has been widely reported that the mission-driven sector is facing an epic shortage of talent, the likes of which it has never before seen. Compounding this problem are the grim realities of a faltering economy that is forcing nonprofits, higher education institutions, and the public sector to stretch hard-raised dollars farther than ever. The old methods of recruiting top leadership are costly, and the worldwide economic downturn is making that expense harder to bear even for the most important searches.

Across all sectors, organizations are developing tools for doing business better, faster, and cheaper to ensure that the quality of their services are not compromised in even the most challenging of economic circumstances. As an executive search and professional development firm dedicated to building the capacity of the mission-driven sector and its leaders, Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group has been at the cutting edge of the consulting field from its inception as a "new economy" search firm that merges the wisdom of generations of search professionals with the innovation of powerful new technologies and efficient business practices.

 

Introducing NPAG U!
A Free Lunch-and-Learn Webinar Series

When we founded the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, we did it with the intention to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector its staff. We now take the lessons we have learned from decades of experience searching for talent for the nonprofit, higher education, and public sectors and teach you how to apply our best practices to your search challenges.

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Our webinar series starts on January 23 and will run throughout 2009 and cover such topics as:


- Modernizing Executive Search for a New Economy
- Building Organizational Capacity through Search
- Searching for Talent in a New Economy
- Making the Process of Key Hiring Leaders Cost-Effective

This webinar will be hosted for free for participants but will have limited seats. Advance RSVPs will be required.

Click here to RSVP for one of our free upcoming webinars...

 

Embarking on a Talent Search?
Not Sure Where to Begin?
Use Our New Tool to Determine What Type of Budget You'll Need

The Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group was founded on the simple, yet meaningful notion that:

1. All nonprofit organizations be able to hire the brightest minds in executive search to address their talent needs.
2. We must leave our clients stronger, better, smarter, and with richer capacity that we found them.

To that end, we allow our clients to contract with us for the full suite of services of a typical high-priced retained executive search firm, or let them pick a la carte. We've just put together a new tool that will help you think through each stage of search to determine what type of help you'll need, and what kind of budget you should allow.

 

 

NPAG in the Media

Tune in to SIRIUS 112 and XM 157 Wednesday, January 14 at 4pm EST to hear our Founder and President, Laura Gassner Otting, on Martha Stewart Living Radio. A frequent guest, Laura will be discussing jobs in the nonprofit sector with Career Coach Maggie Mistal.

Maggie Mistal is a certified career coach, inspirational speaker, and corporate trainer on professional development. She is the career coach at Martha Stewart Living Radio, and owns her own business, MMM Career Consulting, where she guides people in defining and achieving their goals. Maggie also volunteers as an on-call resource for Streetwise Partners, a nonprofit career development organization in New York City.

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Click here to tune in...

The Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of nonprofits and their staff, and is available for search consulting projects on an hourly or per project basis for nonprofits, or to discuss the individual resumes, cover letters, and job search strategies of job seekers.

Sincerely,

Laura Gassner Otting, President
Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group LLC