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What Makes for a Successful Leadership Development Approach?

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Nonprofit leaders have complex jobs. In order to excel in their roles and drive results, these leaders need ongoing support from funders and key partners. While there are no perfect leadership development approaches, GEO has found three key characteristics make them most effective: focusing on developing collective leadership of teams within and across organizations, ensuring that leadership development support is contextual, and providing continuous support for growth.

How Can We Support Capacity-Building Efforts?

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Nonprofits need skilled leaders, strong systems and the flexibility to continuously improve their work. As funders, we can play a key role in building the capacity of grantees, and we can offer this support in a number of different ways to boost nonprofit success. This piece offers an overview of how grantmakers can structure initiatives that seek to build grantee capacity.

How Can Grantmakers Support Movements?

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Today, many grantmakers recognize the role of social movements in advancing opportunity, well-being and justice for all people. And more grantmakers are making a shift from solely supporting individual organizations and programs to supporting the multiple organizations and intersecting networks that make up movements.

What Are the Different Ways to Collaborate?

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In the nonprofit sector there are various forms of collaboration, ranging in formality, actors and purposes. Some of the most common types of collaboration include networks, coalitions, movements, strategic alliances, strategic co-funding, public private partnerships and collective impact initiatives.

How Can We Be More Supportive of Nonprofit Financial Sustainability?

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Grantmakers can take a number of steps to ensure that the support we provide to grantees, and the policies and procedures connected to that support, enables nonprofits to effectively fulfill their missions. The goal, as described by Clara Miller, formerly of Nonprofit Finance Fund, should be to “create an enterprise that can reliably attract revenue and deliver quality program over the long term.”

What Are Three Principles for Supporting Nonprofit Capacity

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There is not one “right way” to provide capacity-building support because each leader and organization is unique and circumstances are always changing. Grantmakers should keep “The Three Cs” in mind when providing capacity-building support: make it contextual, continuous and collective.