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Young Nonprofit Professionals: Preparing the Path for Leadership

With so many organizations and executive directors anticipating their succession and planning for it, there is a wealth of research that has emerged on the topic. Simultaneously, organizations like the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network are looking at ways for recruiting and sustaining young people in the nonprofit sector. It is an exciting time in the history of nonprofits where leadership dynamics are being explored and a new economy presents unique challenges.

Emily recently completed a survey of 172 young nonprofit professionals throughout the U.S. and has finished her report and findings in Young Nonprofit Professionals: Preparing the Path for Leadership. Emily will presenting her research at various venues across the U.S including the Council on Foundation's Leadership Summit: Generational Leadership Program. For more information on her research, contact Emily.

The Executive Summary is here!  Please click here for the recently completed Executive Summary.

Please click here for the latest report, released in October 2007.

Please visit the 21/64 website or Denver Foundation website for links to the most recent draft.

Websites & Blogs

• NP 2020
  
• Nonprofit Congress, Work With Me
  
• Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN)
• Nonprofit Leadership 601
  
• EDA Consulting Cafe
  
• Next Generation Leadership Forum, Craigslist Foundation
  
• Idealist.org
  
• EPIPhanies
• 21/64
  
• The Building Movement Project
• Generational Leadership Program
• Future Leaders in Philanthropy (FLIP)
• Mobilizing Youth
• Brazen Careerist
  

News, Articles, & Reading

From EDA Consulting:

• Preparing the Path to Leadership Executive Summary
  
• Young Nonprofit Professionals: Preparing the Path to Leadership
  

From Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, and Idealist.org:

• Stepping up or Stepping Out, YNPN
• Ready to Lead? Next Generation Speaks Out
  

From Annie E. Casey Foundation:

• Change Ahead
• Up Next
• The State of Executive Transition Services Nationally
• What's Next

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From Bridgespan:

• Leadership Deficit
• The Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit

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From Building Movement Project:

• Understanding the Next Generation of Nonprofit Employees: The Impact of Educational Debt
• Generational Changes and Leadership: Implications for Social Change Organizations
• Generational Leadership Listening Sessions

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From CompassPoint:

• Daring to Lead
• Help Wanted

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From Harvard Business Review:

• Motivating Across Generations
• The New Road to the Top

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From The Chronicle of Philanthropy:

• Young Workers Seek Ways to Improve Nonprofit Work Force
  
• How to Close the Generation Gap in the Fund-Raising Office
  
• Bridging a Generation Gap

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Other:

• Are Tech-Savvy Millenials the New Voice of Philanthropy?
  
• Executive Transition in the San Diego Nonprofit Sector
• Recruiting and Retaining the Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders
• Changing of the Guard
• Passing the Torch
• Training Tomorrow's Leaders

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