Clover Search Works is a Seattle-based firm facilitating executive searches for nonprofit organisations, applying equity-centred hiring practices from initial exploration to final appointment.
Clover Search Works is a Seattle-based executive search firm working exclusively with nonprofit organisations. Its core service, Comprehensive Search Facilitation, covers the whole of an executive hiring process, from the first exploratory conversations with a board or staff through to the final appointment. The firm reports having facilitated more than 125 searches for client organisations of all sizes, across the nonprofit sector and philanthropy and foundations.
The firm's method is explicitly equity-centred. It builds diverse search committees, removes unnecessary gatekeeping, broadens qualification criteria and emphasises pay transparency, with the stated aim that nonprofit leadership should reflect the communities those organisations serve. Leadership transition consulting and the design of search processes form part of the same body of work.
Staff describe themselves as nonprofit practitioners first and search consultants second. The team brings experience from the other sides of the table: as executive leaders, staff members, board members and funders. The firm frames its work around organisational health, sustained impact and transformative growth for the organisations it serves.
Clover Search Works is based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Further detail is available at cloversearchworks.com.
