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.
Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership
Working Across Generations offers a comprehensive look at the leadership and generational shifts in the nonprofit sector. Working Across Generations presents ideas and gives practical advice on how to approach […]
Thinking Five Years Ahead
This exercise can be done by executive directors to create an individual action plan, but it is also useful to do in small groups of staff and board members.
Making Social Change: Case Studies of Nonprofit Service Providers
Building Movement Project developed this set of case studies as a response to numerous requests from groups looking for real-life examples of the often-challenging process of incorporating social change models […]
Leadership Development and Leadership Change
This is a report on how a group of social justice organizations link leadership development to executive leadership transitions, paying particular attention to race, class, gender, and age.
Reflections on My Roles and Supports
This is an exercise that can be used as a personal reflection, or with a small or large group that has representatives from different generations. This exercise can take anywhere from 40-60 minutes, depending on how […]
What Are My Personal and My Generation’s Accomplishments and Lessons?
This is a primarily individual reflective exercise, with opportunity for a larger group discussion or small group reflections. You may decide to have participants fill the worksheet out before attending a large-group discussion, or you may […]
Finding Leaders, Finding Solutions
This exercise can be used at a staff meeting or board retreat or in workshops for nonprofit leaders. We recommend using a facilitator to help keep the group on track and encourage people to move beyond […]
Alliances for Change: Organizing for the 21st 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 […]
Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership
Working Across Generations offers a comprehensive look at the leadership and generational shifts in the nonprofit sector. It presents ideas and gives practical advice on how to approach generational changes in […]
Nonprofit Service Organizations and Civic Engagement
Nonprofit service organizations in the U.S. have contact with millions of people in need each year. As a result, local communities often view them as places where the neglected and […]