United in Anger: Discussion Guide for Activists and Organizers
“The United in Anger ACT UP documentary is a valuable teaching tool I look forward to utilizing to train youth activists in the struggles that affect them. The fight for justice and equality that ACT UP strove for with HIV/AIDS is still relevant as ever.”— Judith Pindell, Director, Ohio Advocates Youth Leadership Council United in […]
The Next Stage: Leaving Long-Term Leadership: Reports from the Field
Over four decades ago, the Baby Boom generation began entering the workforce in significant numbers with many deciding to dedicate their careers to social sector work. Now this cohort is entering the traditional age of retirement and looking to their next stage of life and work. Whether in nonprofits or government, their work has been […]
The Leadership in Leaving
This report highlights the leadership in leaving as an often-neglected aspect of a nonprofit leader’s role, key in understanding and successfully completing the exit process.
The Indispensable Public Space
The Building Movement Project uses the shorthand “TIPS” (The Indispensable Public Space) to describe all our work related to exploring, enlarging, understanding, preserving and illuminating public space. This curriculum explores our complicated relationship to taxes, and thus, our very mixed feelings about how “public space” is to be financed. TIPS is a play on words. It […]
Talking About Taxes: Mini-Curriculum I
A SERIES OF EXERCISES TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TAXES A workshop developed by Kim Klein and the Building Movement Project Team Exercise 1: The CommonsExercise 2: A Conversation about Taxes Introduction to the exercisesAt the Building Movement Project, our work is focused on nonprofits and it is that audience I […]
Meeting Need, Making Change: 2013 Survey of Nonprofit Service Providers in New Mexico
New Mexico is a state rich with resources – both natural and human – and a history of community engagement and collaboration to support the common good. The state’s traditions are reflected in the diversity of the over 2,000 nonprofit organizations that work in communities to help people face challenges and overcome obstacles. This survey […]
Building Community from the Inside Out: A Series of 5% Shifts
This report includes case studies of community building efforts by two nonprofit organizations in Detroit and New York City. The two cases focus on staff and clients, with possible adaptation for volunteers and boards.
Developing The Leadership of Recipients: A Series of 5% Shifts
Structural inequities restrict development and leadership opportunities for people in need of formal supportive services. This report includes two case studies of leadership development efforts by nonprofit organizations.
Asking Powerful Questions: A Series of 5% Shifts
Questions reveal new opportunities, and build stronger foundation, for relationships. This report profiles two organizations that began asking new and powerful questions in their work with clients and volunteers.
Advancing Community Level Impact: A Series of 5% Shifts
This report examines how two organizations developed and executed strategies to advance their commitment to bridge the service-organizing divide by thinking beyond individual needs to address problems at a community level.
At the Crossroads: The Future of the LGBT Movement
When this report was released in 2013, the LGBT movement had witnessed wins that an earlier generation would have thought impossible: from the first-ever statewide popular votes legalizing same-sex marriage to the Former President Barack Obama acknowledging LGBT rights in his inaugural address to the nation. However, as the struggle for legal equality of LGBT […]
Crossing Organizational Boundaries to Build New Partnerships: A Series of 5% Shifts
This report explores partnerships in two different parts of the country facing similar social and economic struggles: Detroit and Albuquerque.