Vision for Change: A New Wave of Social Justice Leadership
This report details specific insights from 17 young, diverse nonprofit leaders on what it takes to do their jobs and recommendations for concrete change to support building a stronger progressive organization.
The New Lifecycle of Work: Long-Term Nonprofit Leaders Prepare for their Future
These findings from a 2012 online survey of long-term nonprofit leaders found exiting leaders want new ways to continue meaningful work in positions that offer more flexibility and less responsibility.
Structuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-making
This report identifies and documents new models of how to run and lead organizations without concentrating authority and responsibility in one top person.
What Works: Developing Successful Multigenerational Leadership
Since the start of the 2000s, there has been growing concern about the breadth and depth of new leadership in the nonprofit sector. For the most part, the alarm was focused on the departure of the Baby Boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1965. This large cohort – so key to the development and […]
Service Delivery and Social Change: 2010 Convening Report
In June 2010, the Building Movement Project held a convening at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund entitled “Service Delivery and Social Change.” It brought together organizations already deeply in the midst of incorporating social change work into their service delivery and was attended by representatives of 28 organizations from across the country, […]
Evidence of Change: Exploring Civic Engagement Evaluation
For many years, the Building Movement Project, the Alliance for Children and Families and the Ms. Foundation for Women worked with their individual networks to promote civic engagement as a way to enhance services, create strong communities, and promote progressive social change. As a result of these efforts, many thousands of constituents across the nation […]
Catalysts for Change: How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services and Transform Communities (CASE STUDIES)
In 2010, 2ith the support of The California Endowment, the Building Movement Project surveyed over 450 California-based nonprofit direct service providers to explore whether they are integrating social change activities into their work. Part Two of Catalysts for Change offers five in-depth case studies of California-based health and social service providers that are engaging in non-service […]
Catalysts for Change: How California Nonprofits Can Deliver Direct Services and Transform Communities (REPORT)
This in-depth case study of five California-based organizations explores how their non-service activities address systematic issues of poverty, inequality and health disparities, and build the voice and power of their constituents.
Making Social Change: Case Studies of Nonprofit Service Providers
Building Movement Project developed this set of case studies as a response to numerous requests from groups looking for real-life examples of the often-challenging process of incorporating social change models into social service work. These case studies, geared toward practitioners, board members, and funders interested in this work, serve to complement two other Building Movement […]
Leadership Development and Leadership Change
This is a report on how a group of social justice organizations link leadership development to executive leadership transitions, paying particular attention to race, class, gender, and age.
Alliances for Change: Organizing for the 21st Century
The election of President Obama with his history and identification as a community organizer sent a message of hope and possibility to the community organizing world. For decades, community organizing groups in the U.S. grappled with the form and consequences of the state’s strike-back against hard won anti-poverty and civil rights gains of the 1960s. […]
Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership
Working Across Generations offers a comprehensive look at the leadership and generational shifts in the nonprofit sector. It presents ideas and gives practical advice on how to approach generational changes in leadership so that the contributions of long-time leaders are valued, new and younger leaders’ talent is recognized, and groups are better prepared to work across […]