Board Governance & Recruiting Strategy for Growing Arts Nonprofit

We are looking for a volunteer to help us craft a functional board governance framework and recruiting strategy for Nosreme Baltimore, a Black-led nonprofit that produces public art installations, community programming, and international artist exchanges across Baltimore.

As part of this board development project, I need help creating a board recruitment strategy with a skills-gap matrix to identify and recruit 3-5 active board members, a governance structure including role descriptions, term expectations, meeting cadence, and a board manual, and a board fundraising framework so members understand their role in supporting the organization's financial sustainability. We currently have a board on paper but no active engagement, and as a sole-staff organization scaling into our fourth year with multiple flagship programs, activating a strong board is critical to our next phase of growth.

Helping Nosreme Baltimore transition from a founder-driven startup into a sustainably governed organization. Nosreme builds pathways for underserved artists into global creative networks through public art, community programming, and international exchange. Our programs — including construction-site art activations with developers, heritage murals honoring Baltimore's history, and a Baltimore-to-Rotterdam artist exchange — have generated meaningful community impact, but as a one-person operation I cannot continue to scale without board support. An active, engaged board will strengthen our grant competitiveness, expand our fundraising capacity, provide strategic oversight, and reduce founder burnout. This directly translates to more public art in Baltimore neighborhoods, more paid opportunities for underserved artists, and stronger international connections for our creative community.

Completing significant operational groundwork to ensure a volunteer's time is well-used. We have established our 501(c)(3) status, built out a QuickBooks financial tracking system mapped to IRS Form 990 requirements, created program-level budgets across six active initiatives, developed a grants and sponsorship pipeline, and built a comprehensive project management system in Monday.com. I am also registered for Business Volunteers Maryland's boardCONNECT event to begin sourcing potential board members. What I need is the strategic governance structure to plug those future members into — the bylaws, expectations, onboarding materials, and fundraising framework that turn names on paper into an engaged, effective board. I will implement all deliverables directly as Founder and Executive Director.