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James Weinberg
Founder & CEO, Commongood Careers, Boston, Massachusetts

James Weinberg is Founder & CEO of Commongood Careers, a national search firm dedicated to enabling innovative nonprofits to build strong organizations through the recruitment, retention and development of outstanding talent at every level.  In addition to having placed 500 leaders at 150 organizations in 20 states over the past 4 years, Commongood Careers has built and supported a candidate pool of over 50,000 jobseekers.  Mr. Weinberg is also currently working to establish a new venture called The Talent Initiative that is dedicated to enhancing human capital management throughout the sector.  Starting in 2010 with support from the Kellogg and Skoll Foundations among others, The Talent Initiative will select an elite cohort of organizations, and provide them with intensive consulting and technical assistance designed to help them get the right people in the right roles, build world-class management systems, and optimize their organizational cultures. 

Previously, Mr. Weinberg served as the National Development Director at BELL and as the Executive Director of the Homeless Children’s Education Fund. He was also a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, has a masters in Management & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon and a bachelors in Psychology from Tufts.  He serves on the board executive committees of the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition, ProInspire and Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.  He is also a deeply committed member of the ServiceNation, America Forward and Reimagining Service coalitions, as well as serving as an advisor and volunteer to several other organizations.

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