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Nonprofit HR is the country’s leading and oldest firm focused exclusively on the talent management needs of the social sector, including nonprofits, associations, social enterprises and other mission-driven organizations.

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Empowering Nonprofits Nationwide

Fueled by the passion of employees and consultants nationwide, we help many of the nation’s most impactful nonprofit organizations get ahead through smart people management strategies.

Over the years, we’ve worked with thousands of organizations of all mission types, sizes and budgets. With a customized approach for each client, we offer solutions that are applicable to your mission and workforce. Browse our Nonprofit HR case studies below to learn more about how we apply HR best practice to address the unique concerns of our clients.

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Integrating EDIJ Into Intercultural Work

See how pre- and post-trainings from our People & Organizational Strategy consulting team helped a children, youth and family services mission prioritize and increase internal awareness and positively impact in-community service delivery.

As we work with multiple clients of varying missions and sizes—each one with their own unique identity and needs—we remain focused on driving engagement, results and impact. Being a member of our team means that you not only become a part of wonderful community of leaders and professionals, but you get to be involved in business development, special projects, and new initiatives that help define our present and future work.

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COMPREHENSIVE CASE STUDIES

The Power of Offboarding: Strengthening Mission-Driven Organizations Through Employee Transitions

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Community Development; Civil Rights; Human Rights; Children, Youth & Families
  • Staff Size: Varied
  • Annual Budget: Varied
  • Type of Engagement: Offboarding
  • Engagement Duration: Varied

Description

Nonprofit HR’s Search team partnered with mission-driven organizations to design a structured offboarding experience, including career coaching, resume reviews, and alumni engagement strategies. This case study highlights how these tailored solutions preserved morale, protected employer brands and fostered long-term connections with former employees.

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Empathy & Strategic Talent Acquisition: Navigating Hiring During Ongoing Reduction in Force (RIF)

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Education
  • Staff Size: 76-150 employees
  • Annual Budget: $20 million – $50 million
  • Type of Engagement: Professional Search & Recruitment Outsourcing
  • Engagement Duration: Three months for Director of Talent Acquisition & six months for other staffing hires

Description

Following a significant reduction in force, a national education nonprofit partnered with Nonprofit HR’s Search team to recruit a Director of Talent Acquisition and staff its Aspiring Principal Fellowship Program. This case study showcases how a strategic, empathetic hiring approach helped restore stability, rebuild workplace culture, and position the organization for long-term success.

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Strengthening Teams in Transition: Filling Five Pivotal Roles

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Arts, Culture & Education
  • Staff Size: 140-150 employees
  • Annual Budget: $18 million
  • Type of Engagement: Professional Search
  • Search Duration: Three months for the Executive Assistant and Head of IT searches; two months for each Development search

Description

Amid a significant organizational transformation, a leading arts and culture institution needed to fill five critical roles to support its reopening and future growth. Our Search team identified exceptional talent in IT, development and executive support — ensuring a seamless transition and a strong, collaborative team.

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Reframing a Role to Align With Organizational Needs

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Association for nonprofit organizations
  • Staff Size: 11 employees
  • Annual Budget: Less than $5 million
  • Type of Engagement: Executive Search
  • Search Duration: Six months

Description

A D.C.-based association engaged Impact Search Advisors by Nonprofit HR to source and place a candidate for their Controller position. The engagement evolved into an executive search as the job title was revised to Chief Financial Officer to align with the scope of the role’s responsibilities and the organization’s needs.  

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Agile Support for an Organization With Significant Staffing Challenges

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: New York and Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Research and Policy NGO
  • Staff Size: 151 – 205 employees
  • Annual Budget: $10.1 – $20 million
  • Type of Engagement: Recruitment Outsourcing — Professional Search
  • Search Duration: Ongoing

Description

A research and educational organization enlisted Impact Search Advisors by Nonprofit HR for the full-cycle recruitment of several staff positions.

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Keeping A Professional Search On Track With Persistence and Creativity

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Human Rights — Promoting Peace, Democracy and Justice
  • Staff Size: Less than 25 employees
  • Annual Budget: Less than $5 million
  • Type of Engagement: Professional Search
  • Search Duration: Five months

Description

Due to recent events in their country, a small NGO nonprofit received significant global attention and substantial funding. To keep pace with the growth, the human rights organization engaged Impact Search Advisors by Nonprofit HR for a confidential, exclusive search to identify and refer candidates for a Director of Operations role.

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Rethinking Advancement: Supporting Employee Growth in a Small Nonprofit

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: Canton, Michigan
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Diverse Abilities
  • Staff Size: 10-15 employees
  • Annual Budget: >$1 million
  • Type of Engagement: Advisory

Description

When a small nonprofit faced an employee’s request for a promotion to a role that didn’t exist, our People & Organizational Strategy team provided swift, strategic guidance to navigate the situation with fairness and clarity. By equipping leadership with tailored insights and solutions, we helped create a path for professional growth while maintaining organizational integrity.

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Work-Life Integration Through Equitable Family Leave Policies

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: Nationwide (Remote)
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Education
  • Staff Size: 99 employees
  • Annual Budget: $10.1 – $20 million

Description

A fully remote, nationwide education nonprofit sought to expand its family leave policy to aid in staff retention and support a more seamless transition back to the workplace and engaged Nonprofit HR’s Outsourcing team to help resolve the internal inequity of offerings across states.

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Global EDIJ: Supporting an International Staff

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: Global/International
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: International Environmental Council
  • Staff Size: 115 employees
  • Annual Budget: $10 million
  • Type of Engagement: Equity Assessment and EDIJ Committee Formation

Description

As a global leader in the environmental space, the client aimed to further create an equity-centered, transparent and accountable organizational culture. Given its international structure, it was important that the diverse representation reflected the different parts of the world in which the organization operated.

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Data-Driven Improvements With Immediate and Ongoing Results

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Advocacy/Legal/Policy
  • Staff Size: 50 employees
  • Annual Budget: $10 million
  • Type of Engagement: Culture Audit

Description

A national membership organization partnered with Nonprofit HR to assess its culture and identify and mitigate issues that permeated the senior leadership team (SLT) and staff.

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From Interim Placement to Full-Time Executive

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: San Francisco, California
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Human Services/Poverty
  • Staff Size: 151–250 Full-Time Employees
  • Annual Budget: $10.1–$20 Million

Description

An organization engaged Impact Search Advisors in an Executive Search for their Interim Chief People Officer (CPO) to fill in gaps prior to starting the search for a full-time placement.

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An Executive to Succeed a Legacy CEO

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: National
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Human Services
  • Staff Size: 251–500 full-time employees

Description

An organization engaged Impact Search Advisors in an Executive Search for a new President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) after their previous CEO announced he was retiring after being with the organization for over 30 years. 

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An Inaugural Health Equity leader

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Search
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Health Education/Advocacy
  • Staff Size: 26–75 full-time employees
  • Annual Budget: $5.1–$10 Million

Description

An organization engaged Impact Search Advisors in a Professional Search for a brand new Senior Director of Health Equity role.

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Aligning Strategy, Driving Engagement and Increasing Effectiveness

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: New York
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Community Development
  • Staff Size: 151–250 full-time employees
  • Annual Budget: $10.1 – $20 million

Description

An organization sought to transform strategy, infrastructure and programs to support employee development and engagement, drive employee performance and advance overall organizational effectiveness.

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Building Equity and Inclusion in Organizational Policies and Operations

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: National
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Association for Healthcare Professionals
  • Staff Size: 25 – 75 full-time employees
  • Annual Budget: $10.1 – $20 million

Description

An organization sought to take meaningful, intentional steps toward building equity and inclusion into their policies and operations as well as continue modeling inclusive leadership within their team.

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MINI CASE STUDIES

Building a Unified Foundation: Streamlining Compensation for Two Merging Organizations

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Total Rewards
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Types: Education and Professional Society Association
  • Staff Sizes: 26-75 and 76-150 employees
  • Annual Budgets: $5-$10 million and $20.1-$50 million
  • Scope of Work: Compensation & Benefits

Description

Two merging organizations sought support from Nonprofit HR to review, build and provide strategic guidance on a single new compensation structure, philosophy, practices and policies.

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Aligning a Compensation Philosophy with Organizational Values

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: Total Rewards
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Gender equity
  • Staff Size: 300+ employees
  • Annual Budget: $19 million
  • Type of Engagement: Compensation & Benefits

Description

A gender equity nonprofit engaged Nonprofit HR to conduct a market analysis and update their compensation structure, compensation philosophy, pay practices and policies. The Total Rewards team from Nonprofit HR then supported the organization in the formation of an executive summary and recommendations, introducing the new compensation program to staff and an assessment of their benefit plans and programs.

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Enterprise-Wide Talent Acquisition Assessment

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: New York
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Healthcare
  • Staff Size: 200+ full-time employees
  • Annual Budget: $58 million

Description

Changes in the healthcare industry on a national and local level led to an unprecedented challenge in staffing and a considerable labor shortage in a New York-based nonprofit. Other factors of market competition for salaries by similar organizations left the client with critical staff vacancies and a need to improve many talent acquisition workflows, processes and systems.

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Nurturing Effective Leaders in a Learning & Development Program

Client Demographics

  • Client: Loretto
  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: New York
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Healthcare
  • Staff Size: 4,000 employees
  • Annual Budget: $70 million

Description

Loretto partnered with Nonprofit HR to design and implement a pilot leadership development program for their directors, managers and front-line supervisors. The organization shifted their focus on clinical skill development and recognized that, due in part to the pandemic, most of their supervisors, managers and directors had not received foundational leadership development. The goal of partnering with Nonprofit HR was to create and deliver a pilot project, with the intent to roll it out across all 600 of their directors, managers and supervisors over the next few years.

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Designing CEO Performance Management Processes

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Professional Membership Association – Healthcare
  • Staff Size: 26-75 employees
  • Annual Budget: $5.1–$10 million

Description

A Chicago-based healthcare nonprofit sought support in the development of a CEO performance management process and some related tools with the goal to drive performance and development in alignment with organizational culture and business objectives.

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Assessing DEI to Enhance Mission Delivery

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: People & Organizational Strategy
  • Location: New York
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Arts & Culture
  • Staff Size: 25 employees
  • Annual Budget: Less than $5 million

Description

A New York-based arts nonprofit sought support conducting a DEI assessment to understand current environment and employee perceptions, gain thought partnership on DEI strategy development and identify education needs.

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Leadership Development For Managers

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: San Francisco Bay Area
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Intimate Partner Violence/Domestic Violence
  • Staff Size: 25–75 employees
  • Annual Budget: $5.1–$10 million

Description

An organization sought to increase its focus on people management and leadership development to ensure those in supervisory roles in the organization were properly trained to manage their team.

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Fostering and Promoting Work-Life Integration

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Advocacy/Legal/Policy
  • Staff Size: 26–75 employees
  • Annual Budget: $10.1–$20 million

Description

An organization sought help in increasing work-life integration during the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid potential burnout.

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Featured: We’ve Virtualized Our Workforce—Now What?

We’ve Virtualized Our Workforce — Now What? Scenario #1

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Health & Nutrition Advocacy
  • Staff Size: 21 full-time employees
  • Annual Budget: $5 million

Description

An organization’s leadership wanted to shift to a fully virtual model/workforce, but they had many years left on their lease and costs for renting office space that would go unused.

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We’ve Virtualized Our Workforce — Now What? Scenario #2

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Sector: Social Enterprise
  • Mission Type: Consulting and Professional Services on Membership for Associations
  • Staff Size: Under 50 full-time employees
  • Annual Budget: N/A

Description

An organization was in the middle of transitioning to a mostly virtual workforce and suddenly faced new challenges when this transition required expeditions.

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We’ve Virtualized Our Workforce — Now What? Scenario #3

Client Demographics

  • Nonprofit HR Practice Area: HR Outsourcing
  • Location: Ashburn, Virginia
  • Sector: Nonprofit
  • Mission Type: Public Parks Advocacy
  • Staff Size: 61 gull-time employees
  • Annual Budget: $19 million

Description

An organization that was already shifting toward a hybrid workforce model now faced new considerations given the sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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