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.
California’s Race to Lead: The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in the Golden State
This report compares responses from nonprofit staff in California with nonprofit staffers in all other states. The report includes five recommendations to increase and sustain diverse leadership of California’s nonprofits.
Recognizing All Families to Expand Our Movements: Insights from the Family Justice Network
This report explores the success of family recognition organizing campaigns in Georgia and New Mexico that were funded and stewarded by Family Justice Network partners. In each place, recent efforts […]
Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary
Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary can be found at http://racetolead.org/lgbtq/! The report builds on data from BMP’s Nonprofits, Leadership, and Race Survey, conducted […]
Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap
This report builds on data from Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead survey, conducted with more than 4,000 respondents across the nonprofit sector. This report, the second in the Race to Lead series, analyzes experiences of respondents who identified as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer (LGBTQ).
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary, the first in the Race to Lead series, is based on BMP’s 2016 survey of over 4,000 nonprofit professionals. The […]
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
This report, based on the 2016 Race to Lead survey, compares people of color and white respondents’ backgrounds, leadership aspirations, training and attitudes toward leadership. The survey findings challenge the nonprofit sector’s approach to the racial leadership gap.
Fighting for Equity in Development: The Story of Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance
This report documents Equitable Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance campaign and strategies. Community leaders in other cities can use these lessons from Detroit in pursuing their own CBO campaigns.
The Long Goodbye: Advice, How-Tos and Cautionary Tales for Extended Leadership Exits
This report helps organizations and their leaders take practical steps to reflect on assumptions, motives, and needs to create workable solutions for managing an extended leadership transition.