Leadership Recruitment for Nonprofit Organizations
Helping mission-driven organizations in Los Angeles and Southern California find the transformational leadership they deserve.
Campbell & Company specializes in nonprofit executive search designed to meet the leadership needs of mission-driven organizations across greater Los Angeles and Southern California.
Whether you’re looking for a Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director, or Chief Development Officer, our team is here to help you identify and attract top-tier talent who can lead with impact — right here in Los Angeles.
Chief Executive Searches
We provide strategic guidance and insights to recruit exceptional leaders who embody your mission and values and inspire results.
C-Suite Searches
From CEOs, CMOs, CDOs to CFOs and beyond, we identify innovative, results-driven candidates who will shape your organization’s future.
Board Member Searches
We connect you with board candidates whose values, skills, and networks align with your strategic priorities and vision.
Staffing Services
From discovery conversations to building a strong candidate roster, we equip you with everything you need to start your next search on the right foot.
Rooted in purpose. Driven by impact.
Los Angeles is a city of contrasts, creativity, and a dynamic nonprofit landscape. From South LA to the San Fernando Valley and greater Southern California, the work being done here, whether in arts & culture, healthcare, education, immigrant rights, or climate justice, is both powerful and personal. But leading a nonprofit organization in this Los Angeles requires more than passion; it demands vision, resilience, and the ability to unite people across differences. That’s where I come in.
Living and working as an Angeleno, I understand LA’s neighborhoods, its urgency, and the unique challenges nonprofits face. With over 20 years of experience in nonprofit executive search, I offer a local and national perspective to help you find the visionary leader your mission, and our community, needs.
Dan Nevez, Vice President of Executive Search
How I Help You Succeed
As a hands-on nonprofit executive search recruiter based in LA, I bring not only national search expertise but real-time, lived-in insight into this region. I understand the pulse of LA’s philanthropic community, the landscape of funders, and the hiring realities unique to our neighborhoods. I understand the effect that visionary leaders can have on an organization’s future, and I find and place leaders who will drive continued growth for your organization.
When I say I’m here for you, I mean it. LITERALLY!
The nonprofit sector in Los Angeles is unique.
So Is My Approach.
The City of Angels is diverse demographically, geographically, and organizationally. I bring a deep understanding of how nonprofits work here—and what kind of leadership succeeds.
Regional Expertise
I know how to recruit and assess results-driven, organization builders who can expand revenue and resonate with the diverse communities and leadership expectations across the region.
Sector Fluency
Whether you’re an arts & culture, healthcare, education institution, or a climate justice organization, I understand the competencies and lived experience your next leader needs.
A Network That Matters
I connect you with top-tier, mission-driven talent who are deeply embedded in Los Angeles and greater Southern California.
A Process You Can Trust
I guide you from defining the role to onboarding the hire, with a focus on clarity, equity, and leadership alignment every step of the way.
We are passionate about the nonprofit sector.
We partner with people and organizations that change lives every day. For more than 45 years, we have helped our nonprofit partners across the country mobilize resources and build resilience. The good they each do in their communities is our greatest measure of success. Here are some of the partners we have proudly supported so far:
People matter. Results matter.
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Chief Advancement Officer at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Paul Bessire, discusses how his work with Campbell & Company’s multi-service teams has impacted the Museum’s ability to advance its development operations.
Voted by nonprofit leaders and business executives
Campbell & Company has been listed as one of the country’s best executive search firms by Forbes Magazine and named one of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC)’s Top 10 search firms for placing extraordinary leaders of color for four consecutive years.
Crain’s Chicago Business Magazine recently named us one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work; Seattle Business Magazine also named us one of Washington’s Best Companies to Work For.
Sector-specific expertise.
We’re as comfortable talking composers with a symphony conductor as we are getting in the weeds – literally – with folks fighting to save our planet. Campbell & Company knows that different corners of the nonprofit sector have different norms and needs, and we’re ready to dig deeply alongside you.
Let’s Move Your Mission Forward—Together.
Whether your organization is rooted in South LA, expanding across the San Fernando Valley, or reaching further toward Orange County, strong leadership is the bridge between vision and impact.