The Womxn of Color, Womxn of Power program partners with LeaderSpring Center to create a healing, generative, and rigorous space for learning and growth. The program supports womxn of color in pursuing decision-making positions of power and ultimately building community power.

We are thrilled to unveil the insightful findings of the Nonprofit Women of Color Report, a groundbreaking collaboration between LeaderSpring Center, The San Francisco Foundation, and a coalition of dedicated voices.

We are talking about a structure where groups of volunteers who barely know one another, see one percent of the work, often don’t reflect the communities we serve, and who may have little to no experience running nonprofits, being given vast power to supervise leadership and determine values, policies, and practices. Why did we think this weird structure would work?

Most nonprofits are familiar with the ripple effect that executive transitions have throughout their organizations. While “Nonprofit Founders’ Syndrome” often stands out, high turnover in the executive seat is more often the norm: according to a 2015 survey done by The Nonprofit Quarterly, the average term for an ED is six years.

How does your relationship with money, wealth, and power influence the way you lead in the social sector? Join us to explore these questions and more with a panel of BIPOC Women leaders in philanthropy.

Join us for a day-long, in-person gathering of LeadStrong Alumni and Fellows to facilitate continued relationship and skill building among powerful Women of Color (WOC) leaders in the social sector. Through this gathering, we continue to support WOC doing heart-centered work and help strengthen their leadership so that they can nourish a visionary and interconnected community of peers.

We invite board members, executive directors, and CEOs to join us for an opportunity to learn, engage, and gain a pathway to build a more racially equitable and inclusive governing body.

Join us to hear from HMD’s leadership team about their journey, lessons they learned along the way, and the ways that their organizational structure currently embodies equity. Moderated by Safi Jiroh, Principal Consultant at LeaderSpring Center.

The relationships between money, power, and inequity are visible in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. LSC has expanded our analysis of these dynamics from the macro level to the micro level as we implement curricular elements that incorporate reflection of how an individual’s relationship to money and power can impact their leadership.

In March 2021 Tides, LeaderSpring Center’s fiscal sponsor, hosted an inaugural Tides Talk panel, Advancing Black Collective Power and Equity, to hear from four transformational leaders including Executive Director Sonia Mañjon about what is needed to advance racial equity and healing and how they’re navigating challenges within the nonprofit world.

There is much emphasis, if not urgency, on centering equity in the work of nonprofit organizations, whether or not they have a social justice or social service mission. Join us in a participatory learning experience with four organizational leaders whose efforts to center equity in their organizations elevate the values of humility and trust, and prioritize the collective.

The current global pandemic and reckoning around racial injustice has led many individuals and organizations to state their commitment to racial equity. The time is ripe for transforming intention into action.

Coaching is often embraced as a vital tool in leadership development, but the coach's voice is seldom heard outside of the coaching session. Join members of LeaderSpring's talented coaching pool as they share valuable insights and tools for those who provide, receive, and fund coaching services.

In this interactive session, we will workshop strategies to identify how self-reflective intentionality can be a driver for equity in the design thinking process. This workshop will provide an overview of design thinking and its most common applications and uses, while introducing areas of blind spots that may not be considered within the process. We will learn how, if unaddressed, these blind spots and biases risk perpetuating the very inequities we are trying to remedy.

LeaderSpring Center Executive Director Sonia Mañjon was a featured panelist and presenter at TSNE MissionWorks’ annual conference in Boston, MA, November 2019. Sonia and her fellow panelists discussed the gaps between the aspirations for embedding equity and inclusion in our organizations and the reality of trying to do so, as well as shared strategies to build pathways to developing effective organizational practices that move us toward a more diverse and equitable sector.