Cook Silverman Search is a retained search firm focused on senior executive positions for nonprofit organizations. Our client base represents a broad range of organizations, including independent schools, universities, conservation and environmental organizations, health care, social service, social justice, museums, science, animal welfare, faith-based organizations, and the arts. We are committed to providing ethical and exceptional service to every client we serve. We know thousands of professionals in nonprofit organizations throughout the United States, enabling us to help connect the best candidates with the right positions.

Cook Silverman takes our role in combating the discriminatory factors that influence barriers many of our candidate’s face very seriously.
These include barriers influenced by historical and institutional factors, particularly racial bias and the gender gap.

We approach our work by acknowledging and valuing the intersections of race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, and ability.

Victoria and Pam at Stanford
circa 1989

Cook Silverman brings more than two hundred combined years of nonprofit experience, spanning all aspects of development, advancement, communications and marketing, and executive management. Our team includes individuals who have served as executive directors, development and marketing directors and other senior positions in nonprofits, and therefore have unique knowledge and abilities to evaluate skill sets of nonprofit executives. We have worked in the positions our clients hope to fill, which gives us a distinctive perspective on evaluation of the candidates.

With over 550 searches successfully completed in the last twenty plus years, Cook Silverman has a long record of success: a deep bench of senior management, fundraising, marketing, finance, and communications, program and HR executives, and strong connections within the nonprofit sector that makes us one of the most effective search firms in the business. In addition to our years of experience in the field, our team takes an approach that ensures we have our pulse on the market and an in-depth understanding of the needs of our clients, the potential pool of candidates, and the best methods to reach them.

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