Board Prospecting
Cohort Sistas
Board Prospecting
Project details
What we need
- Assessment of current donors, volunteers, beneficiaries and other constituents to pinpoint people who are interested in serving your Organization
- Informal staff and board interviews to survey potential connections and/or leads
- A document of up to ten pages that lists potential board members based upon your Organization's data and current audiences
- Note: The Professional will not be communicating with prospective board members.
Additional details
We are looking to expand our board of directors but do not have staff capacity or enough board experience to do so effectively. We're looking for about 10 prospects, in hopes that 3-4 will consider joining our board.
What we have in place
- We currently have a board gap matrix, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have volunteer, comms, and donor data, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $5,198 , allowing us to organize 3 professional development workshops for our underrepresented doctoral scholars.
As a new nonprofit (3 years old), we have struggled to build an engaged, experienced board of directors. We know they exist but would love assistance identifying the right people who can and want to support our mission.
Project plan
Posted by
Ijeoma K.
Executive Director
Our mission
Cohort Sistas provides digital resources, mentorship, and community to improve equity in doctoral education. While our programs and platform are open to all doctoral students, applicants, and degree holders, we prioritize and center the needs and perspectives of Black women and nonbinary scholars.
What we do
Founded in July 2020, Cohort Sistas has over 3,000 members across academic disciplines from all around the world. As the only non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to equipping Black women currently or interested in pursuing doctoral education with the knowledge, support, and community they need to thrive in the Ivory Tower, Cohort Sistas works to:
1. Increase the number of Black women and nonbinary people who matriculate into and complete doctoral degrees.
2. Reduce the undue financial and emotional burden of doctoral education for Black women and nonbinary people.
3. Strengthen the pipeline of Black women and nonbinary leaders in higher education, research, government, and industry, whose work and influence will create positive social change for all.
