Build a better nonprofit by centering the people you serve.
As a nonprofit leader, you have the power to change the world. The best way to do it? Share that power, not just with your staff, funders and board, but first and foremost with your nonprofit’s constituents—the people who use your organization’s programs and services. Ask them about their hopes, aspirations and challenges, and then design solutions together.
We’ll teach you how.
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The Shared Power Collective is a learning community focused on helping leaders like you unlock the true potential of your nonprofit by sharing the power to shape your organization with the people and communities you serve.
The Engagement Equation
Four Simple Steps to Transform Your Nonprofit Through Authentic Constituent Engagement
Learn about the four steps you can take today to begin asking your nonprofit’s constituents for input and ideas, centering their priorities, and building a better nonprofit together.
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Are you ready to start building a Shared Power Nonprofit?
The bad news? For decades, nonprofit sector has been built around power structures that put the priorities of donors and funders first, and constituents second. And as any nonprofit leader knows, change is tough.
The good news? Your generation of nonprofit leaders is ready to flip the old power dynamics on their head, to create a new reality where constituents, communities, donors, funders, volunteers and staff work together to build truly transformational organizations.
We’ll teach you the proven process that makes it possible.
Here’s how to get started:
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04. Get on the Waitlist for Shared Power Champions
In this first-of-its-kind group coaching program, you’ll work alongside a group of other like minded leaders to develop and begin to implement a transformational constituent engagement plan for your nonprofit. Why? Because the most effective and equitable nonprofits are those that share the power to shape their organizations with the people and communities they serve.
You’ll walk away with:
- An organization-wide commitment to sharing power with your constituents
- A constituent engagement plan for your nonprofit
- Strategies, frameworks and tools for respectfully engaging the people and communities you serve on an ongoing basis
- The skills you need to bring your teammates, board members and others along on your organization’s journey to become a Shared Power Nonprofit
Enrollment for Shared Power Champions is currently closed until 2025. Click below to get on the waitlist and be the first to hear when we open for enrollment next.
Hi, we’re Lindsay and Alyssa.
Over the last 10 years, we’ve worked with literally hundreds of nonprofits as strategists for organizations like Feeding America and Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and as board leaders for Ignite and The Great Books Foundation. The thing about pulling back the curtain on this many nonprofit organizations is: you start to notice patterns.
The biggest one we noticed?
The most effective and equitable nonprofits are, without fail, those that work to put the people they serve at the center of every action they take and every decision they make.
These exceptional organizations aren’t immune to the challenges that plague the nonprofit sector. Just like your organization, they have a complex web of stakeholders, each with important perspectives and priorities. They have donors, funders and board members to answer to, crises to respond to, and pressing problems to solve. But while many organizations struggle to make decisions and get caught up trying to please everyone, the most effective nonprofits are crystal clear about whose priorities must take priority: the constituents who use their programs and services. They know how to respectfully and consistently engage their constituents to understand their wants, needs and lived experience. Then, they shape their work accordingly, often co-creating solutions with constituents themselves.
And the best part?
These organizations, which we call Shared Power Nonprofits, don’t leave their other stakeholders in the dust when they start to center their constituents. Far from it. Instead, they bring folks like donors, board members and volunteers along, helping them get to know and learn from constituents and communities. As a result, supporters become more engaged too, and work together with constituents to build better organizations.
Sharing power doesn’t often happen by accident.
Instead, it is typically the result of an internal champion (or several) working to instill an organization-wide commitment to centering constituents, building a plan for respectful constituent engagement, and then taking consistent action and learning along the way.
We’ve had the privilege of helping organizations like Feeding America and The Muhammad Ali Center build constituent engagement plans and transform the way they work by putting the people they serve at the center of their decision making.
Their experiences have been so transformational that we quickly realized we needed to make the power of sharing power accessible to every nonprofit
We realized that when sharing power becomes the norm, rather than the exception, we can realize a big, bold vision: a nonprofit sector that truly works for the good of all.
So, The Shared Power Collective was born.
In this learning community, we offer free trainings and resources to help nonprofits of all shapes, sizes and missions begin to share power. We also offer a signature group coaching program for leaders who are serious about transforming their organizations into Shared Power Nonprofits.
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