They didn't just send us résumés. They sent us Margaret — and within four months she had rebuilt our entire donor pipeline from scratch. I don't know how they knew, but they knew.
Renata Osei-Bonsu
Executive Director, Riverside Family Services
The right person
changes
everything.
We place mission-driven professionals into nonprofits — executive directors, development officers, program leaders — with the care of someone who knows your organization's story.
Every search is a story.
Here are three of ours.
From a single program hire to a full leadership transition — read how we matched the right person to the right organization at the right moment.
The Challenge
"We lost our lead case manager two weeks before our largest grant review. I was doing her job and mine and I still couldn't keep up. My board kept saying 'just post it on Indeed' and I kept saying you don't understand — this person has to know how to sit in a room with a family in crisis."
Marcus Webb
Executive Director
Harbor Light Youth Services, Columbus OH
The Placement
Destiny Chambers
Senior Case Manager
Destiny had 8 years of trauma-informed care experience and had worked with the same family demographics. She arrived before the grant review. The funder commented on "the depth of your team." Harbor Light renewed at a 22% increase.
The Challenge
"Our Development Director left to take care of her mother. I understood completely. But we were mid-campaign, $340,000 short of goal, and I had three major donors who expected to hear from someone with authority. We couldn't afford a six-month search. We couldn't afford the wrong hire either."
Patricia Sánchez-Morales
Board Chair
Greenfield Community Foundation, Portland OR
The Placement
Jerome Achebe
Director of Development
Jerome came from a regional land trust where he had closed a $1.2M planned gift. He closed the campaign at $387,000 over goal. Two of the three major donors have since increased their giving. The board chair sent us a handwritten note.
The Challenge
"Our founder was retiring after 27 years. The community trusted her like family. The board was terrified — not of finding someone qualified, but of finding someone the neighborhood would actually follow. We'd been burned before by an outside hire who looked perfect on paper and lasted eight months."
Dr. Vivienne Okafor
Board President
Eastside Neighborhood Coalition, Detroit MI
The Placement
Tomás Reyes-Villanueva
Executive Director
Tomás had led a similarly rooted organization in Albuquerque. Steward facilitated two community listening sessions before the hire. He was introduced at a block party. Six months in, the coalition had added 3 new neighborhood partnerships and opened its first satellite office.
We don't fill positions.
We complete teams.
Our process is built around how nonprofits actually make decisions — with care, with community input, and with the understanding that a wrong hire costs more than a slow search.
94%
of placements still in role at 18 months
14
median days from brief to first interview
You tell us the story
Not the job description — the story. Who left, what broke, what the right person would walk into on their first Monday. We ask questions your last recruiter never thought to ask.
We listen to the field
We maintain deep relationships with mission-driven professionals who aren't posting their résumés — they're waiting for the right call. We make that call.
We present three people, not thirty
You'll never sort through a pile. We send you three candidates who could each do the job — and explain, in plain language, why we believe each one is right for your organization specifically.
We stay through the first year
The placement isn't the finish line. We check in at 30, 90, and 180 days — with both of you. If something isn't working, we address it before it becomes a resignation.
340+
Placements made
since 2018
94%
Still in role
at 18 months
14
Median days
to first interview
100%
Nonprofit-only
we do nothing else
From the organizations we've served
Every recruiter we'd worked with before treated us like a corporation. Steward asked about our neighborhood, our history, our board culture. Then they found us someone who fit all of it.
Kwame Asante
HR Director
Family First Alliance, Minneapolis MN
I told them we needed someone who understood community trust. That's not a job requirement you can put in a dropdown. Somehow they understood exactly what I meant.
Dr. Simone Beaumont-Clarke
Board Chair
Northside Community Health Center, Atlanta GA
Tell us who
you need.
A three-question conversation. No commitment, no stack of forms. Just tell us the story of your organization and the gap you're trying to fill — we'll take it from there.
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