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.
Introduction: Building and Practicing Trust
Tools in this Section: Building Trust in the WorkplaceWhat Works Introduction: Social change takes both a vision about the world that can be shared and the conviction that, together and […]
Developing The Leadership of Recipients: A Series of 5% Shifts
Structural inequities restrict development and leadership opportunities for people in need of formal supportive services. This report includes two case studies of leadership development efforts by nonprofit organizations.
Asking Powerful Questions: A Series of 5% Shifts
Questions reveal new opportunities, and build stronger foundation, for relationships. This report profiles two organizations that began asking new and powerful questions in their work with clients and volunteers.
Advancing Community Level Impact: A Series of 5% Shifts
This report examines how two organizations developed and executed strategies to advance their commitment to bridge the service-organizing divide by thinking beyond individual needs to address problems at a community level.
At the Crossroads: The Future of the LGBT Movement
When this report was released in 2013, the LGBT movement had witnessed wins that an earlier generation would have thought impossible: from the first-ever statewide popular votes legalizing same-sex marriage […]
Introduction: Understanding the Generations and Bridging the Gaps
Tools in this Section: What Are My Personal and My Generation’s Accomplishments and Lessons? Up Next What’s Next Introduction: During the past decade, there has been a rising sense of […]
Introduction: Nonprofit Sector and Movement Context
Tools in this Section: Finding Leaders, Finding Solutions Next Shift Introduction: As part of the largest generation, Baby Boomers have and continue to make an important impact on U.S. society […]
Crossing Organizational Boundaries to Build New Partnerships: A Series of 5% Shifts
This report explores partnerships in two different parts of the country facing similar social and economic struggles: Detroit and Albuquerque.
Service and Social Change
These tools are designed to help build organizational support and capacity for integrating social change practices into the work of providing services in communities. These materials are based on many […]
Arab Spring
In the spring of 2010, we witnessed revolution in the Middle East. What began in Tahrir Square in Egypt in January of that year, quickly spread across the region. The season […]