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.
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.
Working Towards the Common Good 2015: Findings from the New Mexico Nonprofit Survey
This report analyzes 2015 New Mexico Nonprofit Survey responses. It’s a snapshot of the work that nonprofits do to support New Mexico’s communities, the key issues they are working on, the opportunities and challenges they face, and how they work together to advocate for the common good.
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.
Working Towards the Common Good 2014: Findings from the New Mexico Nonprofit Survey
In New Mexico, nonprofit organizations have long played an integral role in ensuring the well-being of the state by caring for its people, environment, and natural assets. Recognizing the important […]
The Respect ABQ Women Campaign: Winning through Vision Strategy and Relationships
The Respect ABQ Women campaign sent shock waves through the reproductive rights community with its resounding defeat of a ballot initiative banning late-term abortion in Albuquerque. When anti-abortion groups filed […]
The New Now: Working Together for Social Change
The astounding success of the marriage equality campaign has left LGBT groups reeling—both from giddiness and trepidation. The Supreme Court of the United States has movingly affirmed the right of same sex […]
The New Now Executive Summary: Working Together for Social Change
The 2015 victories related to the rights of LGBTQ people were astounding. The success on LGBTQ issues, especially marriage equality, is often attributed to a coordinated, unwavering, laser-sharp focus on […]
Coordinating Collaboration to End Homelessness
In Connecticut, the Partnership for Strong Communities and a group of advocacy organizations, government agencies, and community providers led a 2015 campaign to end homelessness in the state. Guided by the […]