Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

The nonprofit sector is facing a massive talent shortage , which makes scaling a social enterprise extraordinarily difficult. We've been able to bring in and keep the right people by focusing on our mission, paying competitively, getting occasional help from professional recruiters, and ruthlessly focusing on talent development.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

AIHR

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And she’s also a nonprofit founder, advisor, and executive coach. And you know, you talked a little bit about my background as a nonprofit founder. I founded a nonprofit in 2010 that focuses on helping graduate at-risk youth by teaching them the principles of entrepreneurship. And so it sounds very large at scale.

Inclusion 52

Inclusion Nonprofit Operations Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Short of asking nonprofits to drain their coffers to make expensive hires, can we find a way to staff their projects? For example, SumAll , a business analytics software vendor, has established its own nonprofit arm so it can “translate the company’s philosophy into tangible social impact.” How do they connect with these projects?

Recruitment 11

Recruitment Nonprofit Compensation Software 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A parallel transformation is now taking hold in the nonprofit sector. It's an essential ingredient of scaling the impact of any venture — all the more so for social ventures where access to a decent education, basic healthcare, or clean water may be at stake. So the question became, how can we take that model and scale it up?".

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Scaling Education Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

This puts a premium on the need to develop, or recruit, talented people who can take on evolving roles and responsibilities. Year Up , a nonprofit that helps urban young adults to develop professional careers and pursue higher education, began using the matrix when it had only one site, a small staff, and annual revenue around $1 million.

Banking 9

Banking Nonprofit Staffing Leadership Development 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Social enterprises and nonprofits increasingly recognize the need to adopt management disciplines used successfully in the for-profit world. But what many social enterprises often fail to recognize is that private-sector recruits often come to them looking to build new skills, not just provide the ones they already have.

Scaling 10

Scaling Recruitment Transportation Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Education Leadership Development Scaling 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM field s — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. They meet with external contacts or stay in touch with recruiters and headhunters in order to stay relevant in their industry.

Engineering 15

Engineering Recruitment Banking Nonprofit 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

With this in mind, we founded the nonprofit Partners in Food Solutions (PFS). We've recruited world-class companies to join our effort, including our U.S. Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Engineering Scaling Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

This practice helps companies recruit and incentivize workers. As these business models scale and go mainstream, they will help create an economy that generates a bigger pie for everyone. It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees. This transition won’t be easy, of course.

Transportation 14

Transportation Energy Education Nonprofit 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In a recent report , the World Economic Forum identified high skills instability across all job categories and acknowledged that most businesses currently face major recruitment challenges and talent shortages. as several national nonprofit initiatives, such as EveryoneOn , are delivering training at the local level.

Government 13

Government Education Nonprofit Media 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Instead, it would serve as a connector, recruiting local business leaders to commit to helping entrepreneurs.

Marketing 12

Marketing Real Estate Nonprofit Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I once served on the board of a nonprofit with a group of men and women I deeply admired. He administered a survey to employees asking them to describe their “ least-preferred coworker ” on a series of scales from “hostile” to “supportive” and “insincere” to “sincere,” for example.

Nonprofit 8

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Operations 8

Alison Green

JULY 19, 2022

The scale model. I built a scale model of Stonehenge and the surrounding countryside out of a pile of new faculty laptops. .” A few years ago, I worked for a nonprofit that provided home-delivered meals to homebound seniors, as well as pet food and supplies for their pets. As a slacker student, I worked in the I.T.

Nonprofit 105

Nonprofit Education Scaling Manager 105

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S. A team of U.S.

Nonprofit 13

Nonprofit Sales Sales Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Consider how many nonprofits offer duplicative services or solutions, or early on learn that their original hypothesis is flawed. I've worked closely with several very successful entrepreneurs and investors and they've taught me a lot about everything from leadership to fundraising to recruiting. They're helping me get smart.

Nonprofit 13

Nonprofit Scaling Recruitment Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling. Replicating.

Scaling 18

Scaling Nonprofit Staffing ROI 18

Go Hire - Org Dev

APRIL 25, 2025

Matt shares his post-pandemic journeyfrom battling burnout in education to mapping processes with sticky notes to using lightweight tech like project boards and chatbots to overhaul onboarding and recruiting. HR + IT = Power Team : Partnership is essential to scaling any AI solution. One major pain point?

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Recruitment Energy Software 52