Nonprofit and Social Impact

DSG Koya believes that the right person in the right place can change the world. This belief guides their work with leading social impact organizations.

The DSG | Koya difference

Mission-driven organizations and leaders are solving the world’s most pressing problems. They are partnering across sectors to create social impact and elevate innovative solutions that create opportunity and access, advance arts and education, protect our planet, and build a better world for all. This requires values-driven leaders who bring a diverse range of perspectives and skills combined with the ability to lead in complex environments.

DSG | Koya is the nation’s premier search firm dedicated to mission-driven leadership. We bring decades of experience, an exceptional network of proven leaders across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, and a track record of identifying candidates with the passion and the leadership skills required to advance impactful work.

Our processes reflect deep expertise partnering with complex organizations, engaging varied constituencies, and a commitment to the importance of a rigorous, transparent process that lays the foundation for a future leader’s success.

  • Tailored Search Process

    We craft a search process that is rooted in a deep partnership with our clients, drawing on a fundamental understanding of their unique goals, culture, and values.

  • Lasting Impact

    We identify leaders who strengthen their organizations and create meaningful change in the world.

  • Social Impact

    We are proud to have placed leaders at some of the most transformative and high-impact nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the country.

  • Inclusive Process

    Our role is to establish an inclusive, fair, and rigorous search process, and we offer counsel and best practices at every stage.

The sectors we serve

  • Arts and culture
  • Environment and conservation
  • Foundations and Philanthropy
  • Global
  • Social Justice and Advocacy
  • Social Services
  • Women and Girls
  • Youth Development and Educational Equity Advocacy
  • Social Impact Companies

  • Arts and culture

    We partner with leading arts and cultural institutions, including art, history, science, and children’s museums, botanical gardens and conservancies, performing arts organizations, associations advancing the arts, and the funders that support this work.

  • Environment and conservation

    We partner with environmental and conservation organizations supporting hyper-local, national, and global spaces, and whose focus areas span environmental justice, policy, advocacy, wildlife protection, climate, and energy.

  • Foundations and Philanthropy

    We have a long history of engaging with clients in public, private, and family foundations. We understand the philanthropic sector and how to best support funders and their constituents through leadership transitions.

  • Global

    The need for strategic leaders who can communicate and solutionize across geographical and interpersonal borders is more critical than ever. Our clients span NGOs to global foundations addressing human rights, food and water security, refugee support, and so much more.

  • Social Justice and Advocacy

    We are proud of our long history partnering with social justice and advocacy organizations around the country working to protect and uplift marginalized voices and communities. Our clients in this space are creating systemic change across a range of issues, including racial justice, gender equality, criminal justice, economic justice, immigration and refugee rights, and environmental justice. We fill senior philanthropic roles with leaders who maximize organizational impact.

  • Social Services

    We have extensive experience in the social services sector, with clients who address homelessness, hunger, nutrition and food insecurity, accessibility, and health equity. We partner with funders of these initiatives to discover transformational leaders across a spectrum of roles.

  • Women and Girls

    We partner with organizations focused on supporting women and girls in the US and globally, including on issues related to gender-based violence, education and literacy, economic empowerment, reproductive health and justice, political participation and advocacy, and other intersectional issues.

  • Youth Development and Educational Equity Advocacy

    We partner with hundreds of organizations focused on youth development, early childhood education, educational equity and reform, education technology, college readiness, and workforce development, along with dozens of foundations that fund these initiatives.

  • Social Impact Companies

    We have partnered extensively with companies doing social good and/or seeking to increase their social impact. Our overlapping expertise in the environmental, social justice, philanthropic, and other sectors is a benefit to these mission-driven organizations.

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