Governance & board development
Board recruitment and induction support for nonprofits
You struggle to find trustees with the right skills — and when you do recruit, new board members take far too long to become useful contributors.
What you'll achieve
A structured, inclusive recruitment process that attracts diverse, skilled trustees, and an induction programme that gets them contributing from day one.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Conduct a skills audit of your current board, design the recruitment process and role descriptions, support candidate selection, and build an induction pack.
Key deliverables
- Board skills audit, trustee role description and person specification, recruitment process guide, candidate assessment framework, trustee induction pack.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Getting on Board free guides
A set of free practical guides for UK charities on trustee recruitment and board diversity. How to Diversify Your Board gives advice, case studies and templates for recruitment and onboarding. How to Recruit Trustees for Your Charity draws on 30 charities and includes skills audit and advert templates and an 8-step recruitment process. From Here to Diversity, from Action for Trustee Racial Diversity, covers recruiting Black and Asian trustees.
Start hereCurrentKey manual or guideFree - 3.2C035
Board Appointment Guide for Charities
A guide for charity boards in Singapore on composing, renewing and recruiting a board. It has 5 sections: the role of the board, 10 steps to compose the board, how to nominate and appoint new members, board culture and relationships with the chair and executive head, and how to attract new members. Appendices give sample terms of reference, a term-limits example and a diversity matrix for mapping skills and gaps.
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