Resources
Here you will find documents and resources by the Building Movement Project, project team members, and other movement builders in the nonprofit community.
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What's Next? Baby Boom Leaders in Social Change Nonprofits
In this paper, we report on how twenty-seven social change nonprofit leaders in the baby boom generation view their work and the contributions they have made during the past 30 years. [ Download/View File ]
Social Service and Social Change: a Process Guide
A model developed for staff and board members of non-profit service
organizations who are interested in learning how to incorporate
progressive social change values and practices into their work. [ Visit Website ]
Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
This
monograph, produced in conjunction with the Annie E. Casey Foundation,
reports on the combined findings of our original generation study, Generational Changes and Leadership, and our follow-up sessions with young leaders ages 25 – 40.
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Social Service, Social Change: Lessons from Detroit
In the spring of 2003, the Building Movement Project brought together several nonprofit executive directors in Detroit to talk about the challenges they faced in their work. They wanted to know how they could look beyond their day-to-day services to address the broader issues affecting their constituents. Despite their different backgrounds and experiences, this group of executive directors all noted a growing demand for services from the poor and working poor with little relief in sight. The number of people in need of services was increasing, and business as usual was no longer working. [ Download/View File ]
Generational Leadership Listening Sessions Report
Who will lead nonprofit
organizations dedicated to progressive social change in the difficult decade
ahead ?and what resources and skills will they need to meet the
challenge? In 2004, the Building Movement Project convened
Generational Leadership Listening Sessions (GLLS) with young nonprofit leaders
in nine cities to explore these critical questions in the context of leadership
transition from the Baby Boomers to a new generation.
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Nonprofits and Taxes
What are taxes for? What is fair taxation? Why should nonprofits make it their business to understand and affect tax policy? A fundraising guru gives us her perspective on why ignoring tax policy is foolish. [ Visit Website ]
Nonprofits and Democracy: Engage, Educate, Activate, and Assess
There has been a subtle shift in the last several years in the ways we
talk about nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit sector is discussed
as an important cornerstone of civil society, a site for civic
engagement, a place to build social capital, and a measure of a
democratic society. The emphasis on the blurring of the boundaries
between nonprofits and government or business is now giving way to a
renewed argument about the unique contributions nonprofit groups make
to the society overall. There are several explanations for why this
turn is taking place. This article will focus on one: the need for
revitalization of democracy in the United States.[ Download/View File ]
Generational Changes and Leadership: Implications for Social Change Organizations
This study was conceived out of a meeting in 1999 with a group of
leaders of US based social change nonprofits. Further information was
provided by participants in seven subsequent meetings on social change
organizations that we held around the country. Many thanks to all of
those who participated in these meetings.[ Download/View File ]
Building Movement vs. Building Organization
Building Movement vs. Building Organization: Summary of Regional
Discussions. These discussions deepened our understanding of how to
enhance and support the vision of progressive social change
organizations.[ Download/View File ]
