In our newest report, At the Crossroads: The Future of the LGBT Movement, the Building Movement Project explores how local, state and national policy advocates and organizers see the future of the LGBT movement. Based on interviews and an in-depth survey, the report finds that while leaders from LGBT organizing, policy and advocacy organizations recognize […]
As long-term leaders in the nonprofit sector think about life after they leave their current jobs, two things become clear: They are not planning to move into traditional retirement, and they want to continue to contribute to the common good. Based on the report The New Lifecycle of Work: Long-Term Nonprofit Leaders Prepare for their […]
Join Project Team member Kim Klein on this free webinar as she discusses the role of Nonprofits and the Common Good, as part of the Talking about Taxes series. Nonprofits need to see themselves as a "common good lobby" to advocate for the ideas that people are more important than profit, that some things are […]
Join Project Team member Kim Klein on her upcoming webinar from the Nonprofits Talking Taxes series. Nonprofits are a huge part of CaliforniaÕs economy in addition to being the main social safety net, the main source of education, art and culture, and environmental protection and preservation. Tax cuts have really affected our ability to do […]
Like many nonprofit organizations, service providers are committed to building the capacity of our communities to increase health, safety and well-being. We know, however, that service provision alone will not solve the systemic issues our communities face. Luckily, more and more organizations are building an integrated model that incorporates both critical services and strategies for […]
As capacity builders, we are often called in at last minute (or later) to help organizations get out of a crisis. What are practical realistic steps we can recommend? What are the benchmarks an organization should look at as it climbs out of a crisis? How can you tell whether something is a crisis or […]
Join Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) for a conversation about how to improve the evaluation of civic engagement efforts. In response to the call for better tools for assessing progress and framing the impact of civic engagement, the Building Movement Project (BMP) has partnered with groups like the Innovation Network to collect these new […]