We’ll help you build a diverse team.

We partner with mission-driven organizations to recruit, support, and retain underrepresented staff. We’ll work with you to launch careers, compete for senior-level talent, and build a workplace that reflects the diversity of our movement.

Fellowship

Staff Matching

Training and Support

Fellowship

We launch careers.

We recruit underrepresented students and place them in paid fellowships with social change groups. Then, we offer them the training, mentorship, and connections they need to become tomorrow’s leaders. We’ve cultivated a pool of more than 10,000 applicants and deployed 300 fellows: 76% are people of color and 73% are women or non-binary.

We find hidden gems.

We recruit underrepresented college students and recent graduates through mentors, professors, advisors, and student leaders on more than 900 campuses. We look for potential, learning ability, work ethic, and a passion for progressive causes––but not necessarily past political experience.
We train them.

We offer our fellows skill-specific training in data, professional writing, and organizing, and career readiness training that shares best practices for managing up, asking for feedback, building workplace relationships, networking, and navigating questions of purpose and belonging at work.
We pair them with a coach.

Our fellows meet with a coach weekly for their first few months on the job. During their 1:1 coaching sessions, they have the opportunity to talk through challenges and opportunities at work, role-play potentially challenging conversations, and bounce ideas around with someone who’s been in their shoes.
We train their managers.

We offer all of our fellows’ managers optional, small-group training on creating cultures of belonging, delivering feedback, developing work-plans, fostering authentic relationships, engaging with identities at work, and building equitable structures for growth.
We place them.

We place our fellows in paid internships with our hiring partners—social change groups that share a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. We’ve worked with 82 organizations to build diverse and effective teams, including the SEIU, Run for Something, and the Working Families Party.
We help launch their careers.

We stick with our fellows long-term with career support, connections to future employers, and a community of more than 300 alumni. We source job applications for our fellows, edit their resumes and cover letters, prepare for interviews, and negotiate job offers––whatever it takes to help them launch lasting social change careers.

“This fellowship means young Black women like me have a seat at the political table.”

Rayna Young, Progressive Pipeline ‘21 (BerlinRosen)

Host a Fellow

We’ll do the legwork of recruiting, screening, and supporting candidates. You’ll get a final say over who to accept––and join a community of progressive organizations who are helping to build a diverse bench of leaders.

Staff Matching

We find great talent.

We all know that exceptional underrepresented candidates are out there––but progressive organizations don’t know how to find them. That’s where we come in: We’ll get your roles in front of a diverse pool of candidates, on-time and on-budget.

We move quickly.

We’re always on the hunt for great talent, so we can find you qualified candidates when you need them. We can often pull an initial slate of candidates in less than a week.

We hire equitably.

We know how to build a diverse talent pool: Across our fellowship and staff matching programs, more than 75% of placed candidates identify as people of color. Our outreach process is built to attract underrepresented applicants, and candidates trust that our hiring partners share our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

We cast a wide net.

We’ll hustle to get great candidates in the door through proactive direct outreach, targeted job postings, and our extensive network of underrepresented applicants.

We’re built for you.

We only work with progressive groups, so we understand your unique hiring needs, the talent landscape, and how to communicate with candidates who are driven by mission and values.

We’re not your average recruiter: Our non-profit structure enables us to pair robust outreach rooted in evidence-driven best hiring practices with a nimble, low-cost, DEIJ-focused process that delivers for both candidates and our hiring partners.

Sharing with our Alumni

Free

We’ll share your role with our 300+ alumni, typically current students and recent graduates from underrepresented backgrounds. If any of them apply, we’ll reach out to you with some background information and a quick pitch.

Direct Candidate Sourcing

Contingency Fee

We’ll send you pre-screened, underrepresented applicants for a range of roles, drawn from our pool of more than 10,000 candidates and targeted outreach. You’ll pay a modest fee if we find a great match, and nothing if we don’t.

Full-Cycle Support

Flat Rate

We’ll manage your hiring process from initial outreach through screening, deliberations, and onboarding, giving you the background you need to make a great decision. You’ll have time to focus on core work while we run a robust and equitable hiring process.

“Progressive Pipeline is opening doors for so many people that would be shut out of the political process otherwise. Change doesn’t come without action and for organizations interested in action, partnering with Progressive Pipeline is a must.”

—Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party

Training & Support

We build diverse teams.

We’ll help you develop internal systems to recruit, hire, and support a diverse team. Our nimble training, coaching, and consulting offerings bring people operations best practices to organizations of any size While each engagement is tailored to reflect our partners’ needs, our areas of support include:

Recruitment

We’ll help you build a tailored recruitment playbook designed to attract underrepresented candidates, including outbound candidate sourcing, a curated list of jobs boards, and strategies to amplify both out-of-network outreach and referrals to a diverse set of candidates.

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Messaging

We’ll work with you to tell your story to candidates, articulate your organizational values, and get folks excited about working on your team. We’ll make sure that candidates have a real sense of who you are, why you’re different, and how you’re addressing equity and inclusion internally.

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Hiring

We’ll build a customized hiring flow, including job posting templates and best practices, a systematized screening process, a skills-focused hiring task, structured, rubric-focused interviews, reference check scripts, decision matrixes, equitable salary bands, and polished, compelling offers.

Shifting from an individual contributor to a manager is one of the most challenging steps that we make in our careers––and one where we rarely receive training or support. Vitally, as organizations begin to build more diverse pipelines of junior staff, their transition to managerial roles will make or break long-term DEIJ success.
We can offer customized programming to support your staff in making the leap into managerial roles, including:
- A pre-management shadowing and training program, where we’ll pair a future manager with a more experienced leader on your team, and give them a set of training wheels before they step into the role.
- A new manager bootcamp, which covers tactical strategies for success and ways to overcome common challenges.
- Individual and group coaching for their first months on the job, focused on key learning goals and outcomes.
All of our training incorporates a strong equity lens, and centers on best practices for inclusive and equitable management.
To build an organization where everyone knows they belong, you need to be build an intentional onboarding process that welcomes employees before day 1, and that goes beyond IT and HR compliance to share norms, values, expectations, and opportunities. We’ll work with your team to develop a tailored onboarding process that engages employees from the moment they accept your offer through their first few months on the job.
Deliverables include a customized onboarding manual and guide, tech tools to automate manual aspects of the process, workshops to identify and articulate team norms, trainings for managers on onboarding team members, and employee-facing materials to get them up to speed.
We offer tailored, large-group trainings and 1:1 coaching that focuses on:
- Navigating high-conflict personalities
- Setting boundaries
- Delivering difficult feedback
- Supporting teams through times of transition and challenge
Our offerings blend practical tools with awareness to help managers show up as their most present, grounded, and mature selves.
Even on the most vibrant teams, junior staff are feeling more burnt-out and isolated than ever before. In a moment of global uncertainty, they’re looking for workplaces that carefully and intentionally invest in them and for organizational leaders who understand their needs.
We’ll help you leverage the new realities of remote and hybrid work to create employee experiences custom-built for this new, diverse generation of staff, including:
- Individual and group coaching for emerging, diverse leaders, focused on giving them the tools they need to navigate workplace challenges and opportunities.
- Training and leadership development for junior team members. We can cover core career skills, ways to get the most out of your first (or second, or third!) job, strategies for managing up and receiving feedback, tools to build relationships at work, and tactics for sustainability and self-care.
We can help you create a work environment where people show up for each other across lines of difference, and where everyone knows they belong. Our multi-pronged approach goes beyond one-off workshops to create lasting change, and focuses on measurable, tactical strategies to move your culture forward. We offer:
- A slate of trainings for managers on leading diverse teams, building racial equity competence, and navigating challenging conversations.
- Individual coaching for senior leaders on ways to support their team through moments of upheaval, change, and opportunity.
- Facilitated workshops and community conversations to identify group norms and build common understanding.
- Strategic consulting to create a “belonging map”––a tailored plan to identify organizational opportunities and create a culture where everyone can thrive.

Our offerings range from one-time trainings and planning sessions to long-term strategic partnerships. Regardless of your team size and budget, we’d love to work with you.

Genny Mayhew, Director of Data Systems and Analytics, SEIU