No matter where you stand in the sector, you can help to maximize investment in the nonprofit workforce. You don\u2019t have to be a funder — or wait for a funder — to invest in your team and yourself.<\/p>\n
We encourage nonprofit board members, CEOs, emerging leaders, and all nonprofit professionals to integrate talent-investment in your organizational priorities, strategic plans, budgets, upper and middle management activities, and fundraising. Over time, we plan to keep adding more content to this Toolkit specifically for nonprofit professionals.<\/p>\n
We recommend that nonprofit professionals start with the resources listed below, and then explore from there.<\/p>\n
Helping you make cogent arguments for investing in nonprofit talent.<\/p>\n
Top Reasons to Invest in Nonprofit Talent<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Provides succinct language and anecdotes that can be used to introduce the concept of talent-investing to foundation staff and board trustees and to communicate the compelling reasons for investing in nonprofit talent. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Nonprofit Myths & Realities<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Provides alternative views about some of the harmful assumptions that continue to inform nonprofit leaders\u2019 attitudes and behaviors toward the nonprofit workforce. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n The Investment Deficit By the Numbers<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Infographic offers data on the deficit of investment of the nonprofit workforce.\u00a0Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Practical guidance for baking talent-investment into your work.<\/p>\n Talent-Investment Menu<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Outlines the different investment partners, key roles, spheres of investment levels, and where along the talent-investment continuum funders can focus their talent-investments. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Talent-Investing Across All Grant Types<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Explores how talent-investments can be baked into all types of grants including program\/project, general operating support, and capacity building. A grant in talent-investment can stand on its own as a fourth major type of grant. Read\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Who Drives Change in Talent-Investing?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Addresses two overlapping questions \u2013 1) Who or what is the \u201csubject\u201d or \u201ctarget\u201d of the intervention? and 2) Who gets to drive the problem analysis, objectives, content, and format of the intervention? These are key questions funders should ask when considering how to structure their investments in grantee talent. Read\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Brief, original accounts chronicling how funders invest in grantee talent.<\/p>\n Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n A deep respect and appreciation for the power of effective leadership is in the San Francisco-based Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund\u2019s DNA. Read the foundation\u2019s field story to learn more about their talent-investments that support national movements including immigrant rights and LGBTQ rights. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Pierce Family Foundation<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The Pierce Family Foundation offers a variety of sophisticated investments in mid-level managers and emerging leaders in their grantee organizations and other nonprofits in the Chicagoland area. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Talent development remains an imbedded priority within the Baltimore-based Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation\u2019s work. Learn about this foundation\u2019s talent-investments in the Weinberg Sector Skills Academy, Leading Edge, and the Weinberg Fellows Program.\u00a0Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Investing in equity and inclusion in the nonprofit workforce.<\/p>\n Talent Justice | Report: Investing in Equity in the Nonprofit Workforce<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Produced by Fund the People and the Center for Urban and Racial Equity, this comprehensive report offers important findings on the challenges and opportunities of investing in intersectional racial equity in the U.S. nonprofit workforce.<\/p>\n Talent Justice | Executive Summary: Investing in Equity in the Nonprofit Workforce\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This brief summary offers important findings on the challenges and opportunities of investing in intersectional racial equity in the U.S. nonprofit workforce.<\/p>\n Talent Justice | Toolkit: Investing in Equity in the Nonprofit Workforce<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n These resources can be used by nonprofits and funders to take action to increase their investments in talent justice at all stages of the nonprofit career lifecycle.<\/p>\n Invest in Equity Inside in the Nonprofit Workforce<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Our brief statement argues that increasing equity and inclusion in nonprofits is inextricably intertwined with investing in the nonprofit workforce. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Literature Review<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Examines how foundations have discussed and addressed investing in equity and inclusion in the nonprofit workforce. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Advancing productive dialogue on talent issues.<\/p>\n Talking Talent for Nonprofits<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Helps nonprofit leaders conduct internal discussions about why and how to invest in staff development, and how to mobilize your funders as allies in these investments. Read ><\/a><\/p>\n Talking Talent Between Funders & Nonprofits<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Supports funders and nonprofits to explore the mutual benefit of investing in the nonprofit\u2019s staff development. Read ><\/a><\/p>\n High-quality, curated content from across the social sector.<\/p>\n Glossary of Terms<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Offers definitions for key phrases used throughout this Toolkit. One of the signs that the field has not prioritized investment in the nonprofit workforce is the lack of useful language with which to discuss it \u2013 so we are road testing some new terminology. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n Reading List<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n A selection of key writings on the nonprofit workforce \u2013 helpful for your own background knowledge or for a nonprofit-related \u201cbook club\u201d, fellowship cohort, or association. Read \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No matter where you stand in the sector, you can help to maximize investment in the nonprofit workforce. You don\u2019t have to be a funder — or wait for a funder — to invest in your team and yourself. 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