Here are conference hand-outs, a list of resources, and articles about the generation shift.

The CBO Center's 2008 East Bay Nonprofit Conference: What's Next? The Generation Shift and Your Nonrprofit. Digital program. [ Download/View File ]

Making Our Future: Demographic Change and the Leadership Challenge presented by Dr. Manuel Pastor. February 1, 2008.  [ Download/View File ]

Graphic recording of the town hall meeting provided by Kayla Kirsch, Leapfrog Consulting.  [ Download/View File ]

Building Movement Project

Next Shift: Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership Crisis 
This report, published in conjunction with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, takes a broader look at the issue of generational change and presents different frames and solutions that move us beyond the “crisis” view of leadership transition and expansion.  [ Download/View File ]

What's Next? Baby Boom Leaders in Social Change Nonprofits 
We report on how twenty-seven social change nonprofit leaders in the baby boom generation view their work and the contributions they have made during the past 30 years.  [ Download/View File ]

Executive Transition Monographs
This series of monographs on executive transition management is funded in part by the Casey Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.

Capturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
This report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes the model of executive management transition that has been used in the last decade. It also details opportunities for funders to further develop and implement strategies to better cope with executive management transitions.  [ Download/View File ]

Founder Transitions: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings: A Guide for Executive Directors and Boards
This guide examines the unique challenges presented by transitions involving founders or long-term executives. It provides clear advice for executives and their boards in confronting the complex issues these transitions present. [ Download/View File ]

Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle
This paper explores the benefits and basics of using an interim executive director during a leadership transition. It also highlights some considerations that organizations should take into account when deciding whether or not to use an interim executive director.   [ Download/View File ] 

Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
Research indicates that leadership transitions from the Baby Boom generation to Generations X and Y will become more common within the nonprofit sector. This report delivers a series of recommendations on how a variety of stakeholders can improve the hand-off from this generation of leaders to the next.   [ Download/View File ]

The Forbes Funds

Look Here! The Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders
February, 2004. Hosted in cooperation with the Coro Center for Civic Leadership: Paul Light (Brookings Institution and New York University); Shelly Cryer (New York University); Susan Hansen (University of Pittsburgh); Carolyn Ban (University of Pittsburgh); Sara Chieffo (Carnegie Mellon University); Suzanne Walsh (Heinz Endowments); Evan Frazier (Hill House); Daniel Horgan (America's Promise); and Michelle Pagano Heck (WQED Multimedia).  [ Download/View File ]

Handouts

Working Across Cultural Differences [ Download/View File ]

Additional Resources

Brincerhoff, Peter. (2007). Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit.  Fieldstone Alliance. 

Cornelius, M., Corvington, P., & Ruesga, A. (2008). Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out. Compasspoint Nonprofit Services.    [ Download/View File ]

Hurst, A., Firestone, L., & O’Grady, M. (2007).  Corporate Baby Boomers and Volunteerism.  The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.  [ Download/View File ]

Masaoka, Jan. (2007).  The Departing: Exiting Nonprofit Leaders as Resources for Social Change. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.  [ Download/View File ]