Leadership Development & Strategic HR Practice
Our Leadership Development & Strategic HR practice is dedicated to helping your nonprofit organization improve its ability to attract, develop, manage, organize and retain your staff and volunteers. Getting the right people and keeping them energized and productive is critical to building a sustainable and high-impact nonprofit.
We offer four Service Grants in this area. Click "Read More" to learn more about what these Service Grants deliver and which organizations can best benefit from them.
Available Service Grants
Human Resources Capacity Build
If you know you have a range of people-related challenges, consider the HR Capacity Build. How effective are your systems for managing talent, and what changes could have the most profound impact on your ability to achieve your mission? The pro bono consultant team establishes your starting HR capacity, evaluates current HR performance, and delivers a prioritized action plan for improving both your long and short-term HR function. Then, the team will identify critical, quick improvements you can make to your system today.
Performance Management
What would happen if every member of your staff understood your organization's strategic plan, knew how it related to your organization's objectives, and saw clearly how his or her job fit into those larger goals? How much more productive and energized would your staff be if each manager knew how to set clear goals for his or her staff, and could effectively manage people to meet those goals? If your organization is ready for a transformational project that can reduce turnover, improve employee engagement, and align each person and department towards shared organizational goals, then our Performance Management project may be appropriate for you.
Strategic Staff Development
What skills are most critical in your current staff? Given your strategic priorities, what competencies will you need in two years, or in five? How can you identify and develop the staff you'll need to serve as future leaders? Answering such questions is critical to long-term success, but many organizations struggle even to assess who and what they have right now. Our Strategic Staff Development Service Grant can map your current and future staffing needs, giving you the tools you need to plan, recruit and manage the most effective team.
Board Recruitment
What does an effective board mean for your organization? And once you know, how do you build that board? To create the board you need, you must connect your board strategy to your organizational strategy: define board skills and competencies for your organization's needs, rather than relying on generic board roles; recruit candidates who further your mission in a variety of ways, rather than just asking them to fundraise; find where and how to attract the right board members, rather than relying on piecemeal and word-of-mouth outreach. Our Board Recruitment Service Grant helps you outline the right board team for your specific needs and then develops the marketing tools you need to build a solid board pipeline and bring in the right candidates, consistently.
