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Leadership
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Effective nonprofits invest in their leadership. They plan for transition, and are agile in order to be responsive to provide best services and achieve the organization’s mission. Leadership is developed internally as well as externally. Values have been articulated and practices are expressed in policies and team building, and staff are engaged in decision making.
Professional Development and Learning:
Resource Topics On This Page:
1. Executive Director/CEO Role
2. Nonprofit Culture, Teams & Meetings
3. Succession Planning/Executive Transition
4. Succession Planning Toolkits
5. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
6. DEI Asset Framing
7. Equity Audit Tools
1. Executive Director/CEO Role
- ED Role & Responsibilities - Boardsource
- ED Job Description Sample - The Bridgespan Group
- Leading a Nonprofit - Tips/Tools for EDs & Team Leaders - Strengthening Nonprofits
- Nonprofit Leadership Development Toolkit - The Bridgespan Group
- Onboarding Guide and Template for Executive Director- CompassPoint
- Onboarding Check List - BoardEffect
- The Importance of Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations - Third Sector Company
2. Nonprofit Culture, Teams & Meetings
- Building a Culture of Empowerment for High Impact - National Council of Nonprofits
- Building High-Performance Nonprofit Leadership Teams - The Bridgespan Group
- Dealing with Difficult Boards: Tips for Executive Directors - Charity Village
- Insights into Great Relationships: Board Chairs & EDs - National Council of Nonprofits
- Organizational Culture: A Nonprofit's Get-Started Guide - MissionBox
- Productive Nonprofit Staff Meetings - Peel Leadership Centre
3. Succession Planning / Executive Transition
- Executive Transition - Boardsource
- Finding the Right ED: Creating & Managing an Effective Search Committee - The Bridgespan Group
- Founders: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Founders: Succession Works Better When Founder Has Role - Philanthropy News Digest
- Guide to Engaging an Executive Search Firm - The Bridgespan Group
- How to Find Success in Succession Planning - The National Council of Nonprofits
- Navigating Succession: Four Exiting CEO Mindsets - Nonprofit Quarterly
- Will We Get There Hire by Hire? Reflections on Executive Leadership & Transition Data Over 15 Years - CompassPoint
Retiring/Exiting Executive Director/CEO - NAO HR Resource Section
4. Succession Planning Toolkits
- Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Emergency Succession Planning Toolkit - Executive Transition Initiative
- Preparing For Your Community Action Agency's Future: Sustainability, Succession & Transition - Community Action Partnership (Don Tebbe)
5. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- NAO Equity and Inclusion Lens Guide - NAO
- NAO Moving Equity and Inclusion into Action - Online Course - NAO
- Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture - Equity in the Center
- Building a Race Equity Culture - Infographic
- Anti-Racism Communications Crowdsourcing - The Communications Network
- Cultural Competence Learning Initiative Lessons - CompassPoint
- Cultural Equity Statement Sample - Americans for the Arts
- Culture: Support an Inclusive Culture - NonprofitReady (Curriculum)*
- Disability Justice: An Audit Tool - Northwest Health Foundation
- Diversity Toolkit: Guide to Discussing Identity, Power & Privilege - University of Southern California
- Gender - Three Dimensions of Gender - Gender Spetrum
- Inclusive Workplace Toolkit - Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado
- Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens - Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
- Healing Divides Starts with Conversation - Living Room Conversations
- Microaggressions: How to Respond to Microaggressions as Anti-Racist Allies - CNN Health
- Microaggressions: When and How to Respond - Harvard Business Review
- Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap - RacetoLead.org
- Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector - RacetoLead.org
- Racial Equity: Ten Lessons for Taking Leadership on Racial Equity - The Aspen Institute
6. DEI Asset Framing
- The Power of Asset Framing: A Conversation with Trabian Shorters - The Skillman Foundation
- You Can't Lift People Up by Putting Them Down: How to Talk About Tough Issues of Race, Poverty, and More - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Driving Social Impact Through Community and Storytelling - Forbes
7. Equity Audit Tools
- DEI Spectrum Tool - Meyer Memorial Trust
- Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks - The Centre for Global Inclusion
- Race Equity Assessment: Building Blocks for Change - Building Movement Project
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