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The
Jewish Federation of Greater Los
Angeles has retained DRG to conduct a search
for a President and CEO.
Through the network of agencies and programs that it supports,
the Jewish Federation helps alleviate Jewish poverty, provides
emergency relief, ensures a Jewish future, and supports
the greater Los Angeles community. The new President/CEO
will partner with a Board leadership that is committed,
in words and deeds, to establishing the Federation as an
effective and creative resource for building Jewish community,
locally, nationally, and abroad. The LA Federation's annual
campaign raised approximately $50 million in 2008.
DRG
is now working with Columbia University's
Graduate School of Business to recruit its next
Associate Dean for External
Relations and Development. Columbia Business
School has today become one of the most selective and highly-ranked
business schools in the world. As the chief development
officer for the Business School, the Associate Dean will
work closely with the Dean and Board of Overseers and lead
a talented development team of fifty complete a $400 million
capital campaign that will be used for the construction
of its new home as part of Columbia University's $4 billion
campaign.
DRG
has begun a search for the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco for their next
Executive Director.
The JCCSF provides quality experiences through an inspiring
mix of formal and informal Jewish educational, recreational,
and cultural activities for people of all ages. Located
in a spectacular new facility on its historic site the JCCSF
and includes a state-of-the-art theatre, gymnasium, aquatics
center, fitness center, preschool, café, meeting
rooms, a gift shop and library. The current budget of JCCSF
is $27.2 million and the organization has nearly 500 full
and part time employees. They seek a professional who can
lead the Center into a new chapter of innovative programming
and service excellence.
DRG
is now working with the James
Lenox House Association in their
search for a new Executive Director.
Since 1973 the goal of James Lenox House, Inc. has been
to support comfortable, secure and affordable living, facilitate
access to needed services and provide the advantages of
a community environment for elderly persons with limited
financial resources.
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Articles on Leadership and Recruiting
Every
month, DRG reviews best thinking and practices in professional
staff recruitment and development in the nonprofit sector.
In
speaking with Executive Directors of nonprofit organizations
across the country, all describe the almost overwhelming
challenges of responding to the fast changing environment.
Together with staff and leadership, all have been working
in overdrive to make adjustments to new realities.
This
month's article Managing Your
Board: Tips and Tactics for CEOs by our colleagues
at the Institute for Nonprofit Excellence suggests that
a relationship between a nonprofit organization's CEO/Executive
Director and Board of Directors is always complicated.
The
article includes "ten time-tested strategies"
for managing relations with a Board. By nurturing the partnership,
CEOs can help their Board and organization focus on the
challenges at hand with less of the drama and misunderstanding
that can be so distracting and time consuming. In the coming
months, that will more important than ever.
Click
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