Succession Planning

These resources offer tips, guides, samples, and case studies to aid organizations in effective succession planning and executive transitions.

The Successful Nonprofits podcast has a catalog of episodes that focus on a wide range of topics, including managing your board, maximizing use of technology, mitigating risk, nonprofit law, promoting diversity and inclusion, and so on. Each episode is a conversation with one nonprofit expert and the podcast is available for listening on multiple platforms.

The Nonprofit Leadership Podcast: Making Your World Better features discussions of "the most critical issues, trends and opportunities facing nonprofit leaders and those engaged in social innovation." The episode format centers around telling the stories of experienced nonprofit professionals and what made them successful, effective leaders.

Disability is a social construct defining what is "normal" and what is not. For organizations already building an understanding of race, gender, and other social constructs and their consequences, this webinar offers a framework to help leaders consider disability in equity planning and identify ways their nonprofit can better include people with disabilities on its staff and board, and among its target population.

During our time on part 2 of the webinar series, participants will have the opportunity to take a "deeper dive" in exploring more intimately the extent to which white dominant cultural tendencies have been internalized and operationalized within organizations and the role that gatekeepers have in perpetuating or disrupting patterns of exclusionary and non-inclusive practices and policies.

During our time, participants will explore the concept of whiteness by way of the socio-political and historical contexts by which whiteness, and therefore the white dominant culture by which most nonprofits operate, was constructed and has been upheld through policy, legal decisions, and Eurocentric cultural values.

Join the Center and presenter Tema Okun to ground ourselves in a shared understanding of what white supremacy culture is and how it manifests in our organizations so we are better positioned to challenge it. We’ll examine how we are navigating white supremacy culture personally, in our nonprofits, and in our communities, and define our stake in dismantling white supremacy culture as we envision a transformative way of being and doing in the world.

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Indicators of Financial Crisis - "We all know that a stressed organization operating with the best of intentions can still make ill-advised decisions, especially in the financial arena – and the results can be damaging. We also know that sometimes seeing a financial crisis is difficult. We want to make it easier so you can recover faster. And we want you to see the challenges before you end up in crisis." (The Foraker Group)

Executive directors sit in a unique position of authority and leadership, directing a staff while also answering to a board of directors. Effective executives learn to see their board as partner rather than boss. They also engage and mobilize their board to do high-priority work that benefits the organization. Join the Center and Third Space Studio for this webinar to explore some of the habits and mindsets that executive directors can use to create a strong sense of shared leadership with the board.

“Red folders” are a simple risk management tool that can go a long way. Call a red folder day for everyone on staff – including the CEO. The assignment is for everyone to use no more than two pages to sum up their key activities. It may include a list sorted by daily, monthly, or quarterly tasks or it may make more sense to organize the list by type of duty. It depends on the role, so let people have some flexibility.

Red Folders: A Simple Risk Management Tool