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Nonprofit 2020: Issues and Answers for the Next Generation
Challenges Entered:
NP2020 will allow emerging leaders to raise their voice on the future of leadership in the nonprofit sector. Open space technology & online communities will help emerging leaders generate ideas & continue to create solutions after the conference.
The vision of the NP2020 conference is to focus on the looming leadership deficit in the nonprofit sector and answer the question Will You Lead in 2020?
As the baby boomers plan to retire in the next few years young nonprofit leaders need to take their places. Bridgespan predicts there will be a need for 640,000 new senior leaders by the year 2016.Â
Through the use of the innovative open space technology we hope to create dialogue among nonprofit leaders between the ages of 21 and 40 to answer the questions: How do we address this growing need? What solutions lie within our sector? How do we begin to better understand the needs of, and barriers to the sector's future leaders? Are you an emerging leader willing to engage in the development of innovative solutions?
At the end of the conference we will have a growing Wiki website with all of the notes and ideas generated from the conference. The new ideas and passion for the sector generated from the conference will potentially lead young professionals across the country to take a proactive step to sustaining the nonprofit sector.
WHAT WE NEED:
We need many resources for the conference including, supplies for the days of the conference (paper, markers, etc); larger marketing avenues, via the web (we now use myspace, wiki, facebook, and blogs); participants and their innovative ideas; and participant thank you gifts. To supply most of our resources we really need to attract a strong buzz of the confernce and secrue another possible grant or corporate sponsorship.
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Didn't know the Johnson Center was doing this
A big shout-out to you, Tera, and my other colleagues at the Johnson Center. Please tell Joel I said hello. Another colleague, Charles Forsythe, and I submitted a social networking tool (Throngz) for the NetSquared Innovation Award, so I've been doing the rounds, checking out other people's projects. Very impressive!
I'm glad to hear the Center is focusing on the impending leadership deficit and what that will mean for the sector. Whether or not the deficit evolves into a crisis is less important than the fact that there are more and more people paying attention to the challenges of careers in the nonprofit sector. Thanks for doing this.
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Albert Ruesga
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Check out Throngz, the online discussion space that comes and gets you
What Is This Leadership Deficit?
In 2005 and 2006, the Bridgespan Group conducted an extensive study of the leadership of nonprofits. The organizations that they studied have annual revenues above $250,000. They excluded hospitals and institutions of higher education. They found the following:
- Over the next ten years, the types of organizations in study will need 640,000
new senior managers.
- The projected growth rate in the next ten years for senior nonprofit
management is 240%.
- By 2016, nonprofits will need almost 80,000 new senior managers per year.
- Given the historic rate of growth of the nonprofit sector (and the exclusion of
small nonprofits, hospitals, and higher education), these numbers could be
underestimated.
In short, the nonprofit sector is facing a large imbalance in the supply of and the demand for senior management.
Why is This Happening?
- The retirement of baby-boomer managers who make up the largest segment of
senior managers
- Growth in the number of nonprofits.
- A general lack of infrastructure and support for overhead expenses in the
nonprofit sector. Nonprofits are generally unwilling or unable to devote
resources to developing managers internally.
What is Nonprofit 2020 and Why Should You Care?
Nonprofit 2020 is a conference, but it is also a concept. It is based on several core beliefs and specific needs within the sector:
- As a nation, we are increasingly relying on private organizations to provide
public benefits. Some of those benefits include arts and cultural activities, low-
income healthcare, and economic development.
- Let's face it, Someone else's employee shortage could be your job
opportunity.
- Opportunity to make an impact. The nonprofit sector will require strong
leadership and creative problem solving in the near future. If you want to be
challenged as an employee, board member, or volunteer, this is the sector for
you!
- Everyone has a place in finding ways to fill the needs of the sector. This
includes current leaders, board members, the funding community, volunteers -
and especially the young people who will lead the sector in the future.
- One way to discover solutions is to get a group of energetic, engaged
individuals together and give them the tools and environment that supports
creative problem solving.
We hope you will join us at the conference in July and in the months that follow as our new community works together.