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Vision for Change: A New Wave of Social Justice Leadership
This report details specific insights from 17 young, diverse nonprofit leaders on what it takes to do their jobs and recommendations for concrete change to support building a stronger progressive organization.
The New Lifecycle of Work
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 into traditional retirement, and […]
Vision for Change: Reflecting On Your Leadership
From designing strategic campaigns and building lasting coalitions, to fundraising and managing staff and volunteers, executive directors are expected to have command of a wide-range of skills and demonstrate many […]
The New Lifecycle of Work: Long-Term Nonprofit Leaders Prepare for their Future
These findings from a 2012 online survey of long-term nonprofit leaders found exiting leaders want new ways to continue meaningful work in positions that offer more flexibility and less responsibility.
Vision for Change: A New Wave of Social Justice Leadership
From designing strategic campaigns and building lasting coalitions, to fundraising and managing staff and volunteers, executive directors are expected to inhabit a wide-range of skills and demonstrate many facets of […]
Structuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-Making in Nonprofit Organizations
For the past ten years, the Building Movement Project has addressed leadership in the nonprofit sector by focusing on generational shifts, multigenerational leadership and new ways of leading. In each […]
Structuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-making
This report identifies and documents new models of how to run and lead organizations without concentrating authority and responsibility in one top person.
Building and practicing trust: Introduction
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 […]
Catalysts for Change: Part Two – How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services & Transform Communities
With the support of The California Endowment, the Building Movement Project surveyed over 450 California-based nonprofit direct service providers to explore whether they are integrating social change activities into their […]
Catalysts for Change: Part One – How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services & Transform Communities
With the support of The California Endowment, the Building Movement Project surveyed over 450 California-based nonprofit direct service providers to explore whether they are integrating social change activities into their […]