Events
Scroll down to see some of our upcoming and past events. Check back often for updates about events related to leadership transitions.
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Trust-Based Funding for Healthy Nonprofit Leadership Transitions
Join Leading Forward at the 2024 GEO National Conference for a values-driven and action-oriented session to learn from social sector professionals who are leaning into trust - and leaning into the change - with new strategies to support leaders who are leaving, leaders who are entering, and the board and staff who manage the change from old to new.
Register for the GEO 2024 National Conference
Funding BIPOC-led Organizations in Transition
As the number of movement and nonprofit organizations that are in a period of leadership transition grows, one common practice of funders – “wait and see” – is failing organizations just when they need extra support. Given that many previously white-led organizations are hiring their first BIPOC leaders, this strategy can have an even more destabilizing effect.
NFG’s April Member Call will bring together some of its members (including Leading Forward!) who have been collaborating to address this issue and ensure that BIPOC-led organizations in a transition period are receiving the funding that they need. The session will be led by Liz Sak at The Cricket Island Foundation, Shawnda Chapman at Ms. Foundation for Women, Lori Bezahler at the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, and Melissa Sines at Leading Forward for an action-oriented session about the practical strategies they’re using to support BIPOC leadership in the nonprofit sector and to learn more about their funder organizing efforts to call for a broader shift in grantmaker practices.
⭐Please note this NFG Member Call is for grantmakers. ⭐
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3jj7ka7d
Innovative Actions to Support Healthy Leadership Transitions
Given the deeply destabilizing impact of nonprofit leadership transitions and the steep increase in volume of transitions, it is more important than ever that funders embrace them as a normal yet fragile part of the organizational life cycle.
This Leading Forward session allowed funders to walk away with:
📋 A framework and set of principles for leadership transition grantmaking
💡 Understanding of the unique challenges of BIPOC leadership transitions
🗣 How to approach conversations about leadership transitions w/ grantees
▶ Strategies for supporting organizations before, during, and after leadership transitions, particularly transitions involving BIPOC leadership
⭐This joint PSO event was presented in partnership with the following funder organizations:
Bridging Practice to Lead Forward - An Invitation from the Leadership Transitions Funders Group
On Thursday, June 15, 2023 Philanthropy New York hosted “Bridging Practice to Lead Forward,” a dynamic online discussion hosted by our Leadership Transitions Funders Group.
The conversation with Amalia Brindis Delgado (Panta Rhea Foundation & Leading Forward Steering Committee member) and Carrie Harlow (Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative) delved into field learnings from an existing funder collaborative that supported leadership transitions, as well as other experiences focused on supporting BIPOC leaders.
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Black Leadership: Navigating Executive Transitions in Historically White Led Institutions
This webinar from Equity in the Center is for boards and executive-level leaders seeking to understand how anti-Blackness impacts Black leadership regardless of positional authority.
Executive Transitions Reimagined: Practices that Center BIPOC Leaders
Nonprofit staff leaders, boards, consultants, and funders continue to struggle with the question of how to design and execute executive transition processes that:
reflect equity and justice values
engage staff and community beyond the board of directors
attract and support incoming BIPOC leaders
allow for emergent interpretations of how executive leadership looks and acts
Join us for a conversation that interrogates executive transition "best practice." Which practices might we keep and reimagine? Which can we let go of? What should we add to the transition model to center the needs and realities of incoming BIPOC leadership especially?
This conversation will be courageous and specific, leaving you with new energy and ideas to update your approach to executive transition.