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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Nonprofit board recruitment planner",
 "summary": "Plan nonprofit board recruitment: find skill gaps, write seat profiles, track candidates, and get new members ready for their first meeting.",
 "headline": "Nonprofit board recruitment planner",
 "subhead": "Share your board roster, skills, strategy, and upcoming vacancies. It identifies the gaps before suggesting how to find candidates. You get seat profiles, a recruitment tracker, a candidate packet, and a first-meeting welcome plan for board review.",
 "job": {
  "id": "hire-people",
  "name": "Hire and look after your people"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Current board skills, strategy, upcoming seat dates, bylaws, and expected member duties."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "Board skills table, target seat profiles, candidate process, expectation letter, and welcome plan."
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "You need this task done for a nonprofit, community program, or donated-goods store."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You want to run board meetings, set up committees, or review how the board is doing: use a board governance guide, not this one.",
  "You need unpaid volunteers for programs or events: use a volunteer plan or ask your volunteer lead.",
  "You are planning for your executive director to leave: use a succession plan, not a board recruitment plan."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your current board roster and the skills each member has",
   "Your strategic plan, or your top goals for the next few years",
   "Your bylaws and the dates when seats open",
   "What you expect from board members (time, giving, duties)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "A chat AI where you can paste text or upload files",
   "A board or governance committee to review the plan before anyone is asked"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Board skills table",
    "contains": "Each member rated against the skills, community links and representation the board needs, with the biggest gaps marked."
   },
   {
    "name": "Seat profiles",
    "contains": "For each open or soon-to-open seat, a short profile of the two or three gaps it must fill."
   },
   {
    "name": "Candidate list and tracker",
    "contains": "Three to five possible names per seat, with where each person is: identified, cultivating, invited, seated or declined."
   },
   {
    "name": "Cultivation plan",
    "contains": "The steps from a first chat, to seeing the work, to a formal invitation from the chair."
   },
   {
    "name": "Candidate packet and expectation letter",
    "contains": "Written duties, time asks, term length, giving expectations and conflict-of-interest steps to share before the formal ask."
   },
   {
    "name": "Term and rotation notes",
    "contains": "A suggested way to stagger terms and set limits, to put in your bylaws or a board policy."
   },
   {
    "name": "Welcome plan",
    "contains": "The papers new members get, plus a 30, 60 and 90 day plan with a mentor, a talk with the director and a committee."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Gather your board roster and skills, your strategic plan, your bylaws, the dates seats open, and what you expect from members.",
  "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. Paste the skill, or upload it with your files.",
  "Paste or upload your records. Say which seats are open or will open soon.",
  "Read the skills table and seat profiles first. Fix anything that does not match what you know.",
  "Ask for the candidate tracker, packet and welcome plan. Add real names yourself, and mark any missing facts.",
  "Share the plan with your board or governance committee. They decide who is asked and who is voted in."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Work sample test designer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/work-sample-test-designer",
   "why": "Work sample test designer"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit executive board report writer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-executive-board-report-writer",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit change rollout planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-change-rollout-planner",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Nonprofit Skills",
  "repo": "sector-skills/nonprofit-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/volunteer-people/nonprofit-board-recruitment",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "nonprofit-board-recruitment",
  "commit": "7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "nonprofit-board-recruitment skill",
   "by": "Nonprofit Skills",
   "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/volunteer-people/nonprofit-board-recruitment",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps."
  },
  {
   "title": "Original author",
   "by": "Brendon Connelly",
   "url": "https://brendonconnelly.com",
   "used": "Wrote the skill; Nonprofit Skills shared it in their collection."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner.zip",
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  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/nonprofit-board-recruitment-planner",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
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