All things about nonprofit leadership
Posted by Bao Vang on March 18th, 2008
I feel bad that I have been neglecting my blog. It’s that time of year where the whirlwind of everything leadership at MCN will be taking off. I’m pleased to say that I am 8 days away from the kick off retreat for the 2008 Senior Manager Leadership Institute retreat. This year we have a full class of 25 participants. The deadline for the Strategic Connector Leadership Institute is coming up on April 25. I hope to get a lot of applications and that the selection committee will have a hard time deciding who will get in this year. On the nonprofit leadership front, there’s been a flurry of research reports that have been released in the past couple of weeks. I want to point out some of them.
CompassPoint, Meyer Foundation, Idealist.Org, and other national partners, released their follow up report to Daring to Lead, called Ready to Lead. I’m glad that some of the conclusions that they came to are the same as what I have been writing in my MCN newsletter article.
Opportunity Knocks, a nonprofit job posting site, also released a report about nonprofit employment retention and turnover. An interesting report, but MCN has some good numbers and will be releasing those numbers later this year about nonprofit employment retention and turnover so keep an eye out for that.
GEO or Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, also released a report about foundations and funding leadership development of nonprofit organizations. I still haven’t read that one but I’ll be interested to see if GEO makes any recommendations about funding nonprofit leadership development.
On another note, MCN is looking for session ideas, exhibitors and sponsors for our upcoming Nonprofit Leadership Summit. There is more information on MCN’s website, but it will be a great conference to attend. I hope to see you there.
Finally, as nonprofit leadership is getting more and more airtime, I hope that you think about your own leadership and the leadership of those around you. Are you thoughtful of how other people around you exert leadership? Is leadership only contained in the upper management of your organization? How is the nonprofit sector going to have to change the way we develop future leaders? And finally, how are you demonstrating your leadership abilities?