Leadership Programs
Local Leadership Programs
- Greater Bakersfield Chamber hosts Leadership Bakersfield, a 31-year tradition that brings together a group of 32 individuals from across the city. Each class session is tailored to educate participants on a key community issue. A combination of top-tiered speakers and panels, access to movers and shakers within key industries, exclusive tours and hands-on activities provides knowledge on that session’s particular topic.
- The Kern Leaders Academy selects 8 community leaders each year to participate in this extensive education and training program, conducted by the Kern County Taxpayers Education Fund. Educational Training is held over nine weeks, with 72 hours of instruction. The Academy teaches community leaders how to listen to constituents, with a clear understanding of how to seek endorsements, support, and reserve the right to make independent decisions.
Other Leadership Programs
- The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that strives to make the world more equitable and just. Bridgespan’s Leadership Accelerator programs provide the structure and support for your team to dig into your important goals and objectives, create a shared vision, and make critical decisions—together.
- Stanford’s Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders brings together leaders from social and human services, health care, community development, arts, environment, and education organizations to further their professional development and build an enduring network.
- Stanford’s Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, led by Stanford GSB’s Charles O’Reilly and Harvard Business School’s Michael Tushman. The program provides a proven methodology for diagnosing strategic challenges combined with design thinking techniques and innovation challenge workgroups to help your organization innovate. This program takes place from 22 Oct 2023 – 27 Oct 2023.
Online Resources and Self-Paced Learning on Leadership
Board Building and Executive Leadership Development
- Blue Avocado is an online magazine fueled by a monthly newsletter designed to provide practical, tactical tips and tools to nonprofit leaders.
- BoardSource is the recognized leader in nonprofit board leadership and supports, trains, and educates nonprofit leaders from across the country and throughout the world.
- BoardSource’s research focuses on information about current board composition, practices, and performance and charts important trends and changes in board leadership.
- BoardSource’s Board Support Program provides year-round governance guidance, resources, and leadership development to you, your board, and your organization.
- BoardSource’s Membership Program for Nonprofit Leaders is designed for nonprofit executives (CEO/ED), board members, senior staff, and board liaisons to help support and strengthen your leadership and your mission’s impact.
- Candid Learning’s Knowledge Base includes a collection of answers to the most pressing social sector questions. This knowledge base features a wide range of topics, including management and governance. There are also multiple leadership resources in Spanish, accessible through the link or by clicking the button at the top labeled “Español.”
There are also online training sessions through Candid Learning that focus on leadership:
- The Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management educates and inspires nonprofit leaders, empowering them to maximize organizational outcomes and drive social impact.
- Live Virtual Training – engage in real-time interaction with professors and peers online, immerse yourself in discussions around ideas and solutions, and acquire strategies and tools that you can immediately deploy to solve your most pressing challenges.
- Free Online Learning – This program was developed for emerging nonprofit leaders and those new to the sector. The content is designed to broaden awareness across a breadth of management topics in a flexible, online offering.
- The Organizational Effectiveness Knowledge Center is the Packard Foundation’s “See-through” filing cabinet of the best resources for building capacity in nonprofits.
- Next Steps Career Workbook for Senior Executives from La Piana Consulting – As an experienced social sector leader and manager, you have probably discovered that several key factors go into your level of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction and that these factors may also correlate with your success in performing any given role. Considering these key factors before making your next move can help you find the right next step on your career journey.
- National Council of Nonprofits produces and curates tools, resources, and samples for nonprofits.
- NonprofitReady offers a free online course library supporting the most common nonprofit job families, including fundraising, leadership, accounting and finance, operations, marketing and communications, volunteer engagement, and program management.
Starting a Nonprofit
- Cal Nonprofits – How to start a California nonprofit: a step-by-step guide & additional resources.
- Candid’sHow do I start a nonprofit organization?
- The information provided in this article is intended to offer general guidance on how to form a nonprofit organization.
- IRS general information on starting a nonprofit includes annual filing, forms, tax exemption, and educational resources.
- National Council of Nonprofits produces and curates tools, resources, and samples for nonprofits.
- How to start a nonprofit – The pages in this section of the National Council of Nonprofits’ website walk you through some of the questions to ask before starting a nonprofit, the filings you’ll need to complete at the federal and state level, and the standard policies and procedures that your new nonprofit will want to have in place.
- NonprofitReady offers free online courses on fundraising, finding grants, nonprofit tax filings, managing a board of directors, and more essential topics to help you start a nonprofit.
- NEO Law Group discusses some things to consider when selecting a new nonprofit’s initial board of directors.
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