Nonprofit Staffing: Maintaining Corporate Identity When Growth Occurs
A Piece of Advice
Here is my No. 1 piece of advice when growing your organization and expanding into new fields: Hire people who know more than you do, and learn from them. Impart to them all you know based on your past experience, and listen and absorb the knowledge they possess in their chosen field. Together, everyone will learn and pioneer many new and successful strategies that will contribute to the success—and ongoing growth—of your organization.
Kim Cubine is president of Chapman Cubine Adams + Hussey (CCAH), a full-service direct marketing firm with offices in Arlington, Va., and San Francisco. She possesses over 20 years’ experience as a strategist and communicator for progressive causes and political candidates. She has managed the direct marketing programs of some of the largest, most prestigious campaigns and global nonprofit organizations, including Obama for America, EMILY’s List, Clinton-Gore ’96, The Wilderness Society, NARAL Pro-Choice America, AARP and the Democratic National Committee. Since assuming the presidency of the firm, she has been instrumental in developing CCAH into the first and leading, full-service direct marketing agency in the country.