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Feb 2 2012 - Leadership for Feminist Movement Building Panel

Spark together with Stanford University’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the…

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The Building Movement Project works to strengthen the role of US nonprofit organizations as sites of democratic practice and to advance ways nonprofits can significantly contribute to building movement for progressive social change. The Building Movement Project Team and staff are available for presentations and workshops throughout the country.  To schedule a presentation and find out more about our fees, email .  To learn more about who we are and what we do, see About Us and our Projects page.

New Report from YNPN

Part of the 99%

Budget 101 and other great resources from the Coalition on Human Needs

New Voices Civic Engagement Fellowships

Millennials in the Workplace: BMP Guest Blog at Social Citizens



imagePodcast: NAMAC Structuring Leadership Telesalon

In December, Caroline McAndrews and Frances Kunreuther led a discussion on our new report, Structuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-making in Nonprofit Organizations. The presentation was only open to NAMAC members at the time, but a recording of the event is now open to the public. Continue reading to listen along if you are interested in hearing about examples from our recent study of organizations practicing shared leadership, or how these methods could be applied in your own organization.

imageNonprofits Talking Taxes- A Common Conversation for the Common Good

On December 8th, Project Team member Kim Klein hosted this webinar about how 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 simply not for sale, and that our job is to create a society in which it is easy to be good.

imageStructuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-making

This report sets out to identify and document models of distributed leadership with a focus on increasing organizational impact. Our interest was to find operating structures that address potential barriers to effectiveness, including the growing demands on executives running nonprofits, the current realities of a multigenerational workforce where older leaders will stay longer, and the expectations and work style of new generations coming into the workplace with a strong team orientation. This paper outlines the foundations, practices, and results of distributed leadership and suggests directions for further research.