SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING: KEY CHAMPIONS

Powerful and influential advocates of an initiative generate resources and public support vital to sustainability. These resources can help identify and engage key champions.

Business Leaders As Legislative Advocates For Children

Margaret Blood and Melissa Ludtke. Foundation for Child Development, 1999

This article uses Massachusetts as an example of business leaders forming alliances with more traditional children's advocates and other civic leaders. This public policy effort aligned the concerns and messages of key business leaders and other influential civic leaders with those of a child advocates and led to the passage of three child-focused legislative initiatives.

Developing Community Capacity: Leadership

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

This document helps readers understand desirable traits of a collaborative leader and how to encourage and engage new leaders.

Investing in Leadership

Betsey Hubbard, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, 2005

This document  provides a review of current literature on the role of leadership development in philanthropy and a framework of ways in which Grantmakers support nonprofit leadership development.

The Sustainability Planning Workbook is a comprehensive tool that helps users clarify their vision, identify key issues in sustaining their work, and develop strategies to achieve their long-term goals.   Through customized training sessions, the Sustainability Training Institute provides participants with the knowledge, tools, and skills they need to develop and support effective sustainability plans.