A Job Seeker’s Guide to Navigating Nonprofit Career Fairs
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Christopher Rademacher left the nonprofit career fair last May at George Mason University feeling ALSO SEE:How Charity Recruiters Can Make the Most of Career Fairs triumphant. Despite arriving at the Arlington, Va., campus late and missing some of the recruiters he had…
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How Charity Recruiters Can Make the Most of Career Fairs
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Pamela Flamer started attending nonprofit career fairs two years ago, after a colleague at the ALSO SEE:A Job Seeker’s Guide to Navigating Nonprofit Career Fairs Kennedy-Krieger Institute, in Baltimore, returned from one held at nearby Goucher College and sang its…
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Hiring an Interim Leader Helps Arts Groups in Transition Maintain Fund Raising, Says Survey
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Hiring consultants to temporarily take over vacant executive-director posts proved successful for several nonprofit performing-arts organizations, a new survey reveals. The survey indicates that it also was effective to extend the term of the departing executive until…
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JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Minority women who head charities are more likely to have had management experience in government or business compared with nonprofit leaders overall, according to a new survey by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, a group in San Francisco that offers management…
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Most Environmental-Group Leaders Would Take Executive Role Again, Survey Says
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit The majority of people who lead environmental organizations in the western United States and Canada report that they would serve as executive directors again despite work-related stresses, according to a new survey of 148 environmental-group leaders conducted by…
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One in Three California Foundations Employs Paid Workers, Survey Says
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit One-third of California foundations have one or more employees, according to a new study of 228 California grant makers by the Institute for Family Foundations, a consulting company in Irvine, Calif. The survey focused on staffing and compensation, including the duties…
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Report Shows Hiring Slows at Foundations
The percentage of foundations that employ paid staff members has decreased over the past decade, ALSO SEE:Staffing at U.S. FoundationsDriven by MissionCharities and Foundations Must Confront Shrinking Labor Pool, Researcher SaysWhat Drives Nonprofit Employees even as the number of foundations that…
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