Find exercises and resources that propel nonprofits forward to tackle leadership challenges, integrate service and social change, and work together to build movement momentum. Feel free to adapt these tools to your needs.
Developing the Leadership of Recipients: A Series of 5% Shifts
Leadership is closely tied to notions of confidence, agency and authority in our culture. Too often, structural inequities restrict the opportunities for people to develop those self-perceptions and exercise leadership, […]
Building Community from the Inside Out
This report includes two case studies of community building efforts by nonprofit organizations in Detroit and New York City. St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church’s hot breakfast program in […]
The Leadership in Leaving
This report is the second in a series that examines different aspects of a transformational moment for the nonprofit sector, as the baby boomer cohort begin to transition out of […]
Introduction: Navigating Leadership Transitions
Tools in this Section: As long-term leaders in the nonprofit sector think about life after they leave their current jobs, two things become clear: They are not planning to move […]
The Leadership in Leaving
This report highlights the leadership in leaving as an often-neglected aspect of a nonprofit leader’s role, key in understanding and successfully completing the exit process.
The Indispensable Public Space
The Building Movement Project uses the shorthand “TIPS” (The Indispensable Public Space) to describe all our work related to exploring, enlarging, understanding, preserving and illuminating public space. This curriculum explores […]
Talking About Taxes: Mini-Curriculum I
A SERIES OF EXERCISES TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TAXES A workshop developed by Kim Klein and the Building Movement Project Team Exercise 1: The CommonsExercise […]
Meeting Need, Making Change: 2013 Survey of Nonprofit Service Providers in New Mexico
New Mexico is a state rich with resources – both natural and human – and a history of community engagement and collaboration to support the common good. The state’s traditions […]
Building Community from the Inside Out: A Series of 5% Shifts
This report includes case studies of community building efforts by two nonprofit organizations in Detroit and New York City. The two cases focus on staff and clients, with possible adaptation for volunteers and boards.
Introduction-Leadership Structures and Practices
While younger generations are seeking new models of how to lead that do not concentrate authority and responsibility in one top person, older generations want to adjust their leadership roles […]