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.
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 […]
Introduction: Building and Practicing Trust
Tools in this Section: Building Trust in the Workplace What Works Introduction: Social change takes both a vision about the world that can be shared and the conviction that, together […]
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 […]