The Board Match

The Board Match You have to meet to match. There’s a shortage of volunteer positions for professionals. But nonprofits have trouble finding new board members.

The Board Match® helps nonprofit chief executives and board leaders meet thousands of prospective board candidates face-to-face in cities across the country. Yet on average a new board member is worth more than $9,000 a year in value to their nonprofit, every year they serve. In the United States there are over a million nonprofit public charities governed by boards of directors, with an average o

f 16 members each — 16 million board members. At any given time, 77% of them (770,000 nonprofits) are seeking some 2.5 million new board members. And fully 70% of nonprofits find that to be “difficult” or “very difficult.”

Volunteers want to put their professional skills to use while volunteering, but nonprofits offer relatively few opportunities for skilled-volunteering. Except for board service. Businesses are seeking skilled volunteer opportunities more than ever before because skilled opportunities increase the benefit to the employee and the company. But they cannot find enough of them to satisfy the growing demand. Increasingly, board service is seen as a prime professional development opportunity and an essential duty for senior executives. So, how can board candidates and nonprofits find one another? They meet face-to-face at the Board Match. Board Match is an annual event with a job-fair format, where the chief executives and board leaders from nonprofits exhibit in order to meet and recruit new members for their organizations’ governing boards. About 70% of participant nonprofits add one or more board members. And that’s not just by chance. Training provided to board members and senior staff of nonprofits accepted to Board Match covers all aspects of board recruitment, including assessment of the current board and needs, identifying and screening appropriate candidates, on-boarding strategies, and making the most of the Board Match event itself. Today, each Board Match introduces 1,000+ prospective board candidates to 150 nonprofits annually. About 250 new board members are recruited each year from that one event. At $9,000 per board member, that’s about $2.3M in value.

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Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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There’s a shortage of volunteer positions for professionals. Yet on average a new board member is worth more than $9,000 a year in value to their nonprofit, every year they serve. But nonprofits have trouble finding new board members. In the United States there are over a million nonprofit public charities governed by boards of directors, with an average of 16 members each — 16 million board members. At any given time, 77% of them (770,000 nonprofits) are seeking some 2.5 million new board members. And fully 70% of nonprofits find that to be “difficult” or “very difficult.” Volunteers want to put their professional skills to use while volunteering, but nonprofits offer relatively few opportunities for skilled-volunteering. Except for board service. Businesses are seeking skilled volunteer opportunities more than ever before because skilled opportunities increase the benefit to the employee and the company. But they cannot find enough of them to satisfy the growing demand. Increasingly, board service is seen as a prime professional development opportunity and an essential duty for senior executives. So, how can board candidates and nonprofits find one another? They meet face-to-face at the Board Match. Board Match is an annual event with a job-fair format, where the chief executives and board leaders from nonprofits exhibit in order to meet and recruit new members for their organizations’ governing boards. About 70% of participant nonprofits add one or more board members. And that’s not just by chance. Training provided to board members and senior staff of nonprofits accepted to Board Match covers all aspects of board recruitment, including assessment of the current board and needs, identifying and screening appropriate candidates, on-boarding strategies, and making the most of the Board Match event itself. Today, each Board Match introduces 1,000+ prospective board candidates to 150 nonprofits annually. About 250 new board members are recruited each year from that one event. At $9,000 per board member, that’s about $2.3M in value.