You’re building skills every day. CariClub helps you explore where those skills could support a nonprofit—and how you could grow through service.

Let’s follow the steps from getting started to putting yourself forward for a role. You don’t need previous board experience to begin exploring.

If CariClub is offered through your employer, use your work email and follow your firm’s joining instructions.

When asked how you’re joining, choose the employer option. Haven’t served on a board before? Select Not yet when asked about existing board service.

Then add your current role and a short headline. You can build on these as you explore.

Your profile does two important jobs. It helps CariClub and Margo, its AI assistant, recommend opportunities that reflect your interests and experience. It also serves as your resume for nonprofits reviewing your candidacy.

Give them a clear picture of what you bring: your experience, the causes you care about, and how you work with others. Use a concrete example, such as building a partnership or helping a team turn a plan into action.

Add a clear photo, review your professional details, and check your availability and visibility settings. Save that section.

In Skills, select relevant strengths and the causes you care about, then save your choices. Keeping your profile current helps your recommendations and your introduction to nonprofits reflect who you are today.

Alongside your search, explore Leaderboard, CariClub’s space for learning and preparation.

Its Core Insights assessments help you reflect on your passions, leadership purpose, and areas to develop. Start with a question that matters to you: what kind of contribution would feel meaningful?

Use that perspective as you explore. You can return to the learning resources throughout your journey.

Before choosing a role, get to know the organization behind it. Read about its mission, the people it serves, and the work it is doing.

If you’d like to follow it, become a fan. That’s CariClub’s Fan Club feature: a way to keep an organization in your Fan of list as you explore.

Following a nonprofit helps you keep it in view. Applying for a role is a separate step.

In Starboard, open Listings to explore opportunities. Start with a cause or organization that interests you, then read the role itself.

An associate board helps advance a nonprofit’s mission through fundraising, partnerships, and community engagement. The governing board has a different role: organizational oversight.

You usually join as a board member, rather than for a specific job title. As you get involved, you can explore committees where your interests and strengths can contribute.

Look at the responsibilities, meeting schedule, and any fundraising or financial expectations. The aim is a commitment that fits alongside your career.

Shortlist a promising role while you compare your options. Saving it keeps the possibility in view; it isn’t an application.

When you’re ready to be considered, select Express interest. For this open role, that starts an application—it does not submit it.

Write your introduction and answer any questions for the opportunity. Explain why the mission interests you, what you could contribute, and how the commitment could fit your schedule.

Be specific about how you work with others. Perhaps you’ve brought people together around a shared goal. Explain how that experience, and your interest in the mission, could help you contribute to the board.

Need more time? Save Draft lets you return to it. Leaderboard’s Board Readiness Insight can also help you reflect on areas you’d like to develop.

When you’re ready, review your answers and choose Submit Application. Then look for confirmation that it has been sent. The nonprofit will decide how to take the conversation forward.

Return to Pipeline: saved roles appear under Shortlisted, unfinished applications under Drafting, and sent applications under Submitted.

Check the details and any next steps shown for that role. Keep your profile current as your experience grows.

Start with your profile: what you bring, and what you care about. Then explore one nonprofit that interests you. Your next step can begin with curiosity.