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 role of nonprofits in New Mexico, The Building Movement Project (BMP) and several nonprofit organizations in the state—such as Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Inc., Encuentro, Center […]
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 their petitions in early July 2013, polls indicated that the ban would easily pass. Yet by the vote in November, a local Coalition – with […]
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 couples to marry. But LGBT movement leaders know that the discrimination LGBT people face—embedded in cultural norms, policies, and laws—is still a part of the fabric of […]
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 changing policy at both the state and federal levels. So it is interesting that a different approach is also evolving where LGBTQ advocates and organizations […]
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 vision that “No one should experience homelessness,” the Reaching Home Campaign and Opening Doors-Connecticut (the “Campaign”) emphasizes housing as an essential platform for human and community development. […]
#BlackWorkersMatter
Despite racial and economic progress in the Unites States, Black communities continue to endure disproportionate levels of inequality and injustice. The status of Black workers and their ability to address the socio-economic issues faced in their communities reveals an America defaulting on its promise as the “land of opportunity.” In an effort to address the […]
Nonprofits Integrating Community Engagement Guide
The Nonprofits Integrating Community Engagement (NICE) Guide offers information, tools, case studies and other resources to help nonprofit groups develop core competencies on constituent and community engagement. The NICE Guide is designed for organizational development experts, management support organizations, and internal and external consultants to facilitate efforts to integrate the voice of community members and […]
The New Bottom Line: Building Alignment and Scale to Confront the Economic Crisis
After the economic crash of 2008, policies at the federal level did little to impact the hardest hit communities or to hold banks accountable for the malfeasance that led to the recession. By 2010, big banks were posting record profits while job losses and foreclosures continued unabated. Recognizing the immense challenges to economic opportunity and […]
New Roles, Few Rules: Planning for Purpose Beyond Position
New Roles, Few Rules tells a vivid story about transitions of long-term nonprofit executive leaders who built, and often founded, their organizations.