Bibliography of Leadership Resources

The following are helpful reports and publications offering guidance about leadership issues facing the nonprofit sector:

• Peak Performance: Nonprofit Leaders Rate Highest in 360-Degree Reviews, Nonprofit Quarterly (Winter 2008).
• Boards of Midsize Nonprofits: Their Needs and Challenges, Urban Institute (2008).
• Investing in Leadership Volume 2: inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy’s Last Frontier, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (2008). This report uses case studies to illustrate a variety of leadership development methods being used throughout the nonprofit sector.
• Supporting Next Generation Leadership: A GEO Action Guide, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (2008). This report explores the role of grantmakers in attracting, developing, and retaining next generation leaders.
• A New Seat at the Table: When Is It Time to Add to Your Senior Management Team? is an article from Bridgespan (2008) that explores how to know when it’s time to add a second-in-command, what skills are needed, and how to justify the added expense.
• Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors – What Makes Powerful Nonprofit Leaders?  The Winter issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly (2007) explores leadership issues in the sector, including characteristics of powerful leaders.
• Nonprofit Governance: Findings on Performance and Accountability from the First National Representative Study, Urban Institute (2007).
• Nonprofit Leadership Development: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (2007). The AED Center for Leadership Development has compiled a helpful bibliography of publications that focus on nonprofit leadership development.
• Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out (2007) is the report of a national survey of emerging nonprofit leaders about their readiness to become executive directors/CEOs, produced by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Foundation and Idealist.org.
• Passing the Torch: The Report from the Third Annual Philanthropy Summit (2006) summarizes key themes and challenges on transitioning to the next generation of nonprofit leadership that emerged from the 3^rd Annual Philanthropy Summit convened by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
• The Nonprofit Sector’s Leadership Deficit Commentaries, Bridgespan (2006) explore the leadership gap facing the nonprofit sector as aging baby boomers retire and next generations leaders emerge.
• Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations, The Annie E. Casey Foundation (2005).
• Nonprofit Leadership: A Sampler of Networks, Fellowships, and Workshops (2007) focuses on the status of leadership development throughout the sector. It was drafted by the National Council of Nonprofit Associations and the Leadership Working Group of the Nonprofit Congress.