Change Starts Here

What happens when a nonprofit puts dedicated time and resources into investing in its people and itself?

The Center for Community Change, a longtime partner of the Fund, is experimenting with new ways of working to achieve mission, by looking inward.

Board Development

What difference do nonprofit boards make to their organization’s success?

Read the latest insights from the Haas Leadership Initiative on the essential role that nonprofit boards can play in strengthening their organizations, and, together with staff, the impact they can make.

The Important and the Urgent

Addressing the challenges of social change leadership

Social justice leaders share how they balance the important and the urgent, stay focused, and avoid burnout.

Haas Leadership Initiatives Information Kit

What the program is and how it works

This information kit provides an overview of the Fund’s work in and approach to leadership development.

Flexible Leadership Awards Kit

Everything you ever wanted to know about the FLAs... but were afraid to ask

Learn how the FLA program is helping leaders think expansively about what their organizations want to achieve and the challenges they have to meet to get there.

Headlines from the FLA Evaluation

Why we evaluated and what we learned

Fund staff, grantees, and the program evaluator help connect the dots between leadership development activities, and the impact of the work.

FLA Overview

An overview of key program elements

Linda Wood and Paula Morris break down the three central components of the FLA: the grant, plan consultant, and peer convenings.