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.
Evidence of Change: Exploring Civic Engagement Evaluation
For the past several years, the Building Movement Project, the Alliance for Children and Families and the Ms. Foundation for Women have worked with their individual networks to promote civic […]
BuildTheWheel.org
This site aims to provide a space where community educators and organizers can build upon each other’s practice, experiences and reflections in popular education and leadership development to strengthen the […]
What Works: Developing Successful Multigenerational Leadership
Since the start of the 2000s, there has been growing concern about the breadth and depth of new leadership in the nonprofit sector. For the most part, the alarm was […]
Service Delivery and Social Change: 2010 Convening Report
In June 2010, the Building Movement Project held a convening at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund entitled “Service Delivery and Social Change.” It brought together organizations already […]
Evidence of Change: Exploring Civic Engagement Evaluation
For many years, the Building Movement Project, the Alliance for Children and Families and the Ms. Foundation for Women worked with their individual networks to promote civic engagement as a […]
Catalysts for Change: How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services and Transform Communities (CASE STUDIES)
In 2010, 2ith 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 […]
Catalysts for Change: How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services and Transform Communities (REPORT)
This in-depth case study of five California-based organizations explores how their non-service activities address systematic issues of poverty, inequality and health disparities, and build the voice and power of their constituents.
What Works: Developing Successful Multigenerational Leadership
Since the beginning of the new millennium, there has been growing concern about the breadth and depth of new leadership in the nonprofit sector. Until recently, the alarm was focused […]
Additional Resources
Research for Organizing: This toolkit is designed for organizations and individuals that want to use participatory action research (PAR) to support their work towards social justice. PAR helps us to […]
Alliances for Change: Organizing for the Twenty-First Century
The election of President Obama with his history and identification as a community organizer sent a message of hope and possibility to the community organizing world. For decades, community organizing […]