Fostering Partnerships for Community Engagement: Community Voice and Power Sharing Guidebook

If you are ready to explore and implement a unique approach to engage historically excluded rural voices in community development efforts, this toolkit is required reading.

Power shifting is a process to understand the power you have by virtue of privilege, founders’ syndrome, delegating, sharing and shifting power. While there are no formulas for shifting power, there are many things you can do to start the process.

This guidance covers Practice 1C: Community Engagement.

Join long-time fundraiser Laurel McCombs of Osborne Group as she explores the most effective roles for board members to play in fund development and how to motivate and empower them to achieve success in those roles. 

“How do you shift power in a system?” It is a question I hear and entertain more and more lately, as many of us in nonprofits have worked for decades to create systems change, more often than not with little or underwhelming result.

Does your organization need help directing its fundraising efforts? Planning focuses your organization by setting fundraising priorities and helps give staff and board members a roadmap to success.