Developing Leaders

Developing Leaders

Our Approach

We design and deliver cohort leadership development programs and learning communities. These programs range in length from three months to multi-year, depending on the project. To work at this depth, we often partner with foundations that share our commitment to social change and to leadership development.

These programs combine a set of core methodologies, including teaching, peer learning, coaching, and practice

Explore Leadership Development Programs:

 

Active Programs:

Building Equitable & Just Organizations Through Individual & Relational Practices
A learning series for folks in any role within nonprofit organizations who have a desire to contribute to workplace equity and justice, and seek baseline knowledge and skills-building to support their efforts.

Conflict Resolution Practice Pods: Building Skills for Generative Conflict
A learning community for folks in any leadership role who are interested in practicing tools and strategies for navigating conflict in ways that are collaborative and liberatory.

'How You Be?' Radical Visioning as Black Leaders
A learning series for Black folks in leadership that focuses on tapping into creativity and vision in order to reground in one's purpose, and cultivating a self-care practice in support of personal sustainability.

 

 

Recent Programs:

 

Resource Mobilizer Practice Pods
A learning community for nonprofit and social justice organizations who are actively working to shift our fundraising practices and organizational culture in ways that are more aligned with social and racial justice values and goals. 

Self-Care for Black Folks Learning Series
A learning series for Black leaders focused on individual self-care, self-care within an organizational context, and the importance of community care and mutual aid. 


Self-Care for Black Women in Leadership Train the Trainers >
In 2022, the Self-Care for Black Women in Leadership Program expanded through a Train the Trainers retreat.  11 participants joined a cohort to learn to facilitiate our Self-Care for Black Women in Leadership content.
 


Next Generation Black Leaders >
A space for Black leaders to focus on cultivating their own Black leadership, to connect with other Black leaders in order to build a strong Movement, to learn and teach in order to navigate current organizational and societal conditions, and to practice praxis—which is critical ideation, action, and reflection.
 


B.L.A.C.K. Equity Intensive >
Building Love, Agency, Community, and Knowledge for Equity
A team intensive for Black Leaders and Organizations

 


HIVE Leadership Development Program >
Healing, inspiration, voice, and equity for reproductive justice leaders in Louisiana.
 


Self- Care for
Black Women in Leadership >
 

A cohort program for Black women in leadership that centers self-care as a necessary, radical, and political act. 
 


Fundraising Bright Spots Learning Series >
Monthly sessions focused on fundraising approaches that are based on values of social justice and help us mobilize resources amidst the many challenges we're facing in 2020 and beyond. 

Past Programs

The Arc Toward Justice Leadership and Solidarity Program >
An initiative of the Akonadi Foundation supporting leaders working toward a racially just society for youth of color in Oakland. 
 

The Fundraising Academy for Communities of Color >
A program for fundraisers of color to develop critical awareness, skills, and systems for successful fundraising. 
 

Fundraising Bright Spots Program >
A cohort program focused on developing social justice-based fundraising mindsets and strategies. 

Network Weaver Learning Lab >
Delivered in partnership with Change Elemental - An emergent space for exploring networked leadership 

Next Generation Leaders of Color Inland Region >
Multi-year initiative focused on strengthening leaders and organizations in the Inland Region

Organizational Equity Leadership Development Program >
A team-based program for grantees of the Kresge Foundation focused on turning racial equity values into action

The Strong Field Project to End Domestic Violence > 
Building a stronger, more diverse critical mass of domestic violence leaders in California.