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.
Next Shift: Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership Crisis
During the past six years, there has been a rising sense of alarm in the nonprofit sector about the future of its leadership. Study after study has pointed to an […]
From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
A close look at how social-change organizations address challenges related to leadership, staff development, decision-making, resource needs, and collaborations From community organizing for affordable housing in neglected neighborhoods to providing […]
Social Service and Social Change: A Process Guide for Integrating Social Change Practices into Your Work
This guidebook was developed for staff and board members of nonprofit service organizations who are interested in learning how to incorporate progressive social change values and practices into their work. […]
Assessment of Organizational Readiness for Social Change
A seven-question, multiple-choice assessment, this tool helps help groups determine if the process described in Social Service & Social Change: A Process Guide is an appropriate match for their organization. Based on […]
From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement- building in the United States. They provide political education and sites for constituent engagement, and they are beginning to create […]
Social Service and Social Change: A Process Guide
This guidebook was developed for staff and board members of nonprofit service organizations who are interested in learning how to incorporate progressive social change values and practices into their work. […]
Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
This monograph reports on the findings of a study conducted by the Building Movement Project on generational differences in leadership in small- and mid-sized social change organizations. The monograph also details […]
Social Service, Social Change: Lessons from Detroit
In the spring of 2003, the Building Movement Project brought together several nonprofit executive directors in Detroit to talk about the challenges they faced in their work. Their organizations covered […]
Generational Leadership Listening Sessions
In 2004, the Building Movement Project convened Generational Leadership Listening Sessions (GLLS) with young nonprofit leaders in nine cities to explore critical questions in the context of leadership transition from […]
Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
This monograph reports on the findings of a study conducted by the Building Movement Project on generational differences in leadership in small- and mid-sized social change organizations. The monograph also […]