Tools

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.

Structuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-making

August 12, 2011

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

December 18, 2010

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 […]

Catalysts for Change: Part Two – How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services & Transform Communities

August 26, 2010

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 […]

Evidence of Change: Exploring Civic Engagement Evaluation

August 26, 2010

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

August 15, 2010

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

August 14, 2010

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

August 12, 2010

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

August 6, 2010

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)

August 5, 2010

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 […]

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