News for Nonprofits

How to hire your first
development director

From Blue Avocado

Jan Masaoka writes in the February edition of the Blue Avocado  newsletter: “The only thing worse than not having fundraising staff is having bad fundraising staff. To help you avoid the mistakes many others have made in hiring development staff, we’ve stolen a script of a scene with consultant Leyna Bernstein as she talks with an executive director contemplating hiring fundraising staff for the first time.”

Leyna Bernstein is a nonprofit leadership consultant who specializes in executive director and development director search and board development.  Click here to read the article.