Recruitment Strategy for Additional Board Directors

We are seeking a volunteer with experience in recruiting, HR management, volunteer management, talent strategy, nonprofit development/fundraising to help us design a focused, skills-based recruitment strategy for additional members for our Board of Directors who can support the mission and most importantly help us increase revenue for consistent operations and impact.

Our goal is to strengthen how we attract candidates and reaching highly motivated people who may not come from traditional backgrounds.

The volunteer will work with our team to:

- Understand the role and our current recruitment approach.
- Identify the most important skills and qualifications needed for success in the role.
- Recommend 3–5 candidate sources or outreach channels that align with those skills.
- Develop four clear, actionable outreach tactics to engage those candidates.
- Outline simple ways to track responses and refine our approach over time.

Final deliverable: A practical recruitment strategy for recruiting Board Members, along with some actual outreach on behalf of the nonprofit, including target candidate profiles, and a set of outreach tactics our team can put into action immediately.

Youth Improvement Services (YIS) was incorporated in December 2018. After 7 years of services, we are growing, scaling and streamlining the organization for greater effectiveness and impact. YIS operates a Bride Housing Program that assists young adults, ages 18 to 24, who experience homelessness or face imminent loss of stable housing in Florida and Mississippi. We operate remotely and deploy our innovative interventions through direct cash transfers and case management to navigate the steps needed to reconnect youth to housing, work, employment and training that leads to economic opportunity and social mobility. We are actively considering expanding services to Alabama and other southern states but want to focus on our current footprint first.

This project will allow the volunteer to contribute meaningfully to the transformation of a small, nimble and fiscally responsible nonprofit with a shoestring budget and low operational reserves into a trusted and celebrated regional nonprofit that implements it's theory of change to generate systems change through operational excellence with direct services. With new Board Members who have positive influence, strong community networks, have affinity to our cause, and possibly personal wealth to support organizational goals, we will be better positioned to change the lives of young adults in the communities served.

We look forward to collaborating with you.

To support this work, we will:

- Assign a dedicated point of contact for the volunteer.
- Share background on our organization, programs, the community that we serve, and hiring needs. If available, we will also share demographic information on our current staff and board members.
- Provide access to any current recruitment materials or outreach efforts.
- Be available for regular check-ins and timely feedback.
- Ensure team members involved in hiring are available for input, and that decision-makers are aligned and supportive of the project's goals.

We’re committed to being responsive and engaged, so you can focus on delivering a clear, actionable plan we’re ready to put into practice.