WHO WE ARE
Each Board Match event has a job-fair format, where the chief executives and board leaders from local nonprofits exhibit in order to meet and recruit new members for their organizations’ governing boards.
Board Match delivers 1,000+ quality candidates — in a single evening — to 150 nonprofits that can meet and talk to them, in person.
In the United States there are 1.1 million nonprofit public charities governed by boards of directors with an average of 15 members each — 16.5 million board members.
All nonprofits need to recruit new members eventually. On average they are recruiting for 3 positions — 3.3 million new board member — 60% of nonprofits find that to be “difficult.”
It’s difficult because each of those 2.5 million board seats is precious to their organizations — highly individual and important. Finding the right match can’t be left to chance.
Nonprofit organizations need board members with relevant skills, perspectives, and access to financial resources. It’s also important that they are representative of the community.
A growing number of volunteers want to put their professional skills to use while volunteering. Businesses that include employee volunteering in their corporate social responsibility are seeking volunteer opportunities more than ever before. Not only is board service a prime professional development opportunity, but it is also an essential duty for senior executives.
Our research indicates that, on average, each new board member adds over $9,400 of value to their organization for each year of service. Measured in these terms, every board match event delivers over $2,350,000 in value to the participating nonprofits.
HISTORY
Since 2005, Board Match has introduced more than 11,000 prospective board candidates to 1,000 nonprofits in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Twenty-five percent of candidates join a board within a year. One hundred percent of nonprofits report meeting qualified candidates and seventy percent of them add one or more new members each and every year.
Board Match is the most effective and efficient board member recruitment program out there.
Each Board Match event routinely attracts 1,000+ business professionals as board candidates to meet with 500 executive and board leaders from 150 nonprofits and results in 250 new board members each year. From just one event!
As Board Match launches events in cities across the country we’ll reach 16,000 people annually and place 2,500 new board members on over 1,000 nonprofit boards.
Already, major sponsors such as Google have signed on to make Board Match available to their executives and other business professionals in more cities across the country.
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