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Careers and Recruiting Newsletter
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We are excited to announce our new partnership with BoardSource! You will find tools, resources, and helpful articles from them in our new learning center, Serve as a Board Member. You may also look for and post nonprofit board positions on our job board. |
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What Should I Know Before Joining a Nonprofit Board? |
Serving as a board member is one of the most challenging and rewarding of volunteer assignments. While appointment or election to a board is an honor, board members have important legal and fiduciary responsibilities that require a commitment of time, skill, and resources. This article from our new content partner, BoardSource, will help prospective board members ask key questions that will help them better understand the organizations they wish to serve and also those organizations’ expectations of their boards. The article will also help board members navigate their responsibilities once appointed. Long-time board members may benefit from reviewing the questions posed in this article with their organizations as well.
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| What Are the Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards? |
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Board members might not be at the nonprofit organization they serve on a daily basis, but their responsibilities influence many aspects of a well-managed nonprofit. This article from BoardSource explains 10 basic responsibilities for which board members should be held accountable.
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"The Ultimate Non-Profit Job Guide:
97 Job Boards that Cover It All" listed Bridgestar in their top ten job boards for the nonprofit sector, saying, "Bridgestar has a strong job board that is easy to use as well as invaluable resources and advice pertaining to nonprofit work."
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Discussion
How important is it to have a good cultural fit with board members? Has there ever been a situation in your organization when technical skills trumped culture, and if so, why?
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Poll
How often does your nonprofit board meet?
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Scholarship America
President and Chief Executive Officer
Minneapolis, MN
Scholarship America’s mission is to mobilize America, through scholarships and educational support, to make postsecondary education possible for all students. Since its founding in 1958, the organization has distributed more than $2 billion to nearly 2 million students nationally. Today, the organization is the largest private scholarship and educational support service organization in the United States.
The President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will collaborate with the board of directors to articulate Scholarship America’s long- and short-term strategy. By engaging with grass-roots volunteers, corporate clients, funders, nationally prominent public- and private-sector policy makers, nonprofit partners, the board and staff, the CEO will ensure the organization has clearly aligned strategic and operational business plans, specific objectives, and the financial and team resources required to deliver on the organization’s important mission.
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| FEATURED BOARD POSITION POSTING |
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Pan American Health Organization
Audit Committee Member
Washington, DC
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) works to improve the health and well-being of people in the Americas and is committed to providing the highest level of technical support and leadership to its Member States as they pursue their goal of Health for All. The organization is internationally recognized as part of the United Nations system, and serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) and as a specialized agency in health of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The purpose of the Audit Committee is to provide the director of PAHO and PAHO Member States, through its Executive Committee, with advice on the operation of the organization’s financial controls and reporting structures, risk management processes, and other audit-related controls. Members of the Audit Committee shall serve in their personal capacity, reflect the highest level of integrity, and be fully independent from PAHO. Each member may serve no more than two full terms of three years each. Applicants must have recent and relevant senior-level financial, auditing, risk management, and/or other oversight-related experience.
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 Bridgestar would like to announce two new LinkedIn groups for our COO members in the San Francisco and Washington, DC areas: the Bay Area Nonprofit COO Group and the DC Nonprofit COO Group. These groups join our Boston Nonprofit COO Group as part of our growing National Nonprofit COO Group. These three subgroups allow for COOs in these locales to meet in person to discuss topics of interest to COOs in nonprofit organizations, share best practices, and network.
You must be a member of the National Nonprofit COO Group in order to join. Please visit our Networking page for more details.
Do you have an announcement? Send it to bridgestar@bridgespan.org |
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Bridgestar is an initiative of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Bridgestar offers a nonprofit job board, board of director listings, content, and tools designed to help nonprofit organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders.
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