Every organization’s performance is the sum of its people. As such, our mission is straightforward: source the highest caliber talent from across the nation for community-based organizations. Blair Search Partners was founded to deliver the same level of professional search and recruiting services engaged by Fortune 500 companies, tailored to the unique needs of nonprofit organizations and public agencies.
While each search engagement is customized around the needs of the individual client organization, we place equal emphasis on the community and the candidate experience throughout the entire process. Afterall, today’s candidate could very well be tomorrow’s customer, volunteer, donor, or board member.
Our work is not finished until our client has a finalist candidate who not only meets the job requirements, but whom the client is also excited to work with, and proud to have as the keeper of its legacy.
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The Blair Search Partners Difference
We don’t think of this as the business of recruiting: to us, this is the business of community building.
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Nonprofit specialization
Blair Search Partners works exclusively with nonprofit organizations. This is not just a practice area for our firm; it is our only practice area, ensuring each of our clients is supported by a team of dedicated specialists who are 100% focused on supporting the sector.
Direct Experience
To recruit for the sector, one must understand the sector. Each Blair Search Partners team member brings extensive professional experience from within the nonprofit community. Our team has decades of experience within a wide range of roles, from executive assistant to program manager, fundraiser, director, executive director, volunteer, board member and chair.
CEOs to Coordinators
Blair Search Partners stands ready to support our clients with any recruiting need they may have, at any level. While the majority of our work is at the leadership level, we also support our clients with recruiting engagements at the director, manager and even staff level. Our focus is on building long-term relationships whereby our clients can turn to us for any need, at any time.
National Reach
Blair Search Partners has an incredible track record for recruiting high quality candidates from every part of the country. Our national recruiting strategy enables our clients to benchmark talented candidates from within their local area against the very best at the national level.
Participation and Transparency
Every organization is unique. Our search process is designed for customization around the needs of each client, with a focus on deeply listening to and engaging with stakeholders, including board members, staff, partner organizations and community members. This often includes focus groups and community forums ahead of launching the search.
What We Do
Our team manages search engagements for clients across the country, representing almost every area of the sector, including civic and philanthropic institutions, health and human services, education, and the arts.
Our clients range from start-up 501(c)3 organizations to multibillion-dollar government agencies, which retain us to manage search engagements at all levels, including CEOs, directors, managers, program officers, and support staff.