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: Nonprofit Sector and Movement Context
Tools in this Section: Finding Leaders, Finding SolutionsNext Shift Introduction: As part of the largest generation, Baby Boomers have and continue to make an important impact on U.S. society and […]
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 […]
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 […]