Helping you and your organization build your team and hire talented staff!

The team at Rooted Edge Consulting (originally Sarah Bennett Consulting) has helped hire over 120 staff members for mission-based organizations across the U.S., including Waxman Strategies, Mighty Earth, CeaseFirePA, The Price Center, Virginia Conservation Network, Mothers Out Front, International Rivers, Slingshot, Fight for the Future, and more. Keep reading for more details!

Interested in working with us? Complete our interest form and we'll be in touch:

For most of our projects, we bill by the hour for time spent by our team on your hiring project. We offer three levels of partnerships (please note: these budget estimates do not include posting budgets):

Boost my search package:

$3000- $5000

We take on a limited number of these projects where we work with a client to:

• Facilitate an intake process to learn more about the job

• Provide review and revisions to your job description to incorporate DEI best practices and make it recruiting!

• Propose a job posting plan from our extensive list of sites, google groups, and listservs;

• Post the job widely on job boards, google groups, and listservs;

• Helping to building a diverse, talented, and sizable candidate pool through outreach to potential candidates through our network and Linkedin candidate searching and outreach;

• Building your candidate pool through outreach and calls with like-minded organizations and contacts to generate ideas and more visibility.

Classic hiring package:

$9,000- $12,000

This is our most popular package. With this partnership, we not only help bring boost your applications and bring in a diverse and larger group of applicants, but we also take time- intensive work off your plates, handle application review and the first round of phone interviews, facilitate hiring decisions in the early stages, bring DEI best practices to your search, and communicate with candidates.

• Starting with an intake process to learn more about the job, the types of candidates you are looking for, the details we need to know, and to start to map out an ideal interview process;

• Drafting and editing job descriptions, designed to recruit strong candidates and incorporating strong DEI best practices;

• Developing a job posting plan from our extensive list of sites, google groups, and listservs;

• Posting the role widely on job boards and listservs;

• Creating recruitment materials, including: sample social media posts, outreach email and talking points on the job; criteria docs for effectively evaluating candidates; and phone screen questions;

• Outreach to potential candidates through our network and through linkedin candidate searches;

• Outreach and setting up calls with like-minded organizations and contacts for candidate leads;

• Reviewing applications;

• Conducting initial phone interviews and facilitating decision making early in the process

• Implementing DEI best practice throughout your search;

• Communicating with candidates throughout the process;

• Sending declines;

• Strategizing and offer consult around the direction of the search.

Ultimate hiring package:

$13,000- $22,000

This package is recommended for clients who anticipate a challenging/ time-intensive search AND need our support at the later stages in the search. Searches that fall in that higher range tend to require higher budgets due to a few factors, including: if you need significant help in the final stages of the process, how challenging a role it is to fill, if the search is national or international in scope (which can results in hundreds of applications which requires even more time!), and how senior and specialized the position is.
This package includes ALL of the services in our Classic package (see above) plus:

• Drafting interview questions for all stages in the process;

• Helping draft and finalize a candidate exercise in your process

• Facilitating decision calls at each step in the process

• Making reference calls

• Other support as needed

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We can work with you to find a plan which works within your budget after hearing more. Rooted Edge Consulting has a commitment to working with mission-driven organizations and we know many nonprofits are functioning on tight budgets and working hard to bring in funding. We do our best to keep our searches as reasonable as we can to allow us to work with a wide range of nonprofits with important missions and at varying sizes.

If you are interested in hearing more and figuring out if this is a good fit, please reach out so we can connect and talk more. We can also email you with additional details on our rates and more too. We'd love to hear from you and potentially help you find the next talented addition to your team!

A handful of our current and former clients on hiring projects include:

Costs and packages for partnering on a search:

“I also wanted to give a special shoutout to Sarah Bennett and team for their work throughout the process. They were excellent, incredibly responsive and transparent, and courteous.” Candidate, Waxman Strategies (Rooted Edge client)

"Sarah's ability to capture and relay the full measure of job candidates is unparalleled.

She has incredibly keen instincts about how a person will 'fit' within an organization.

Perhaps most valuably, she was able to help ME figure out what I needed for my open positions—she helped me articulate my 'dream hires' and then she went and found them!

I wholeheartedly recommend Sarah. She is the best recruiter with whom I've ever had the pleasure of collaborating.

Jill Beckwith
Senior Director of Philanthropy
Mothers Out Front

Partner with our team at Rooted Edge Consulting to coordinate your search and find your next hire:
When we partner with nonprofits and take on a search, your organization works closely with Sarah and a Rooted Edge Consulting staff member to bring our expertise to the project and save you time by coordinating your search. We have hired for just about every position you can think of at a mission-based organization, including operations, communications, development, grassroots organizing/ campaigning, policy, leadership roles, and more. Running a search effectively takes a lot of time and partnering with us not only helps you protect your time, but also ensures your search is run effectively, with strong attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion best practices and years of expertise in hiring.

If your organization is hiring and looking for outside help and support, I highly recommend working with Rooted Edge Consulting. We've worked with Sarah and her team on everything from senior level searches to entry level and they've helped craft a specific approach each time to find the best candidate. They have a deep understanding of how to effectively run a hiring search, bringing best practices around recruiting as well as a strong lens for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ve enjoyed working with the entire team, and appreciated getting Sarah’s time during key steps and decisions. Rooted Edge’s pricing is very reasonable and works well for a small non-profit, and even larger ones, but I can assure you that you get the highest quality of work for the cost. We’re thrilled with our new hires and will work with Rooted Edge again. I recommend you reach out to them for your recruiting needs.

Adam Garber
Executive Director | CeaseFirePA