Lists of Leap Ambassadors
- Meet the Ambassadors – Page
- Filterable List of Ambassadors – Page
- Alphabetical List of Ambassadors – PDF
- List of Ambassadors By Region – PDF
- Books Authored by Ambassadors – Page
Communications to Leap Ambassadors
- What We’re Doing and Why (July 2018) – Video
- Progress and Plans (July 2018) – Video
- Reflecting, Adapting, Moving Forward (January 2018) – Video
- Reflection Blogs (2017-2018) – PDF
- Morino Ventures Team Statement on Equity – Page
Resources for Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement Pathway – Page
- Continuous Improvement Pathway Primer – PDF
Performance Imperative – Page | PDF
- High-performance organization definition – Page
- Seven organizational disciplines of high performance
- Courageous, adaptive executive and board leadership (the
preeminent discipline) – Page | PDF - Disciplined, people-focused management – Page | PDF
- Well-designed and well-implemented programs and
strategies – Page | PDF - Financial health and sustainability – Page | PDF
- A culture that values learning – Page | PDF
- Internal monitoring for continuous improvement – Page | PDF
- External evaluation for mission effectiveness – Page | PDF
- Performance Imperative poster (8×10) – PDF
- What’s the Performance Imperative? – Video
- Small, But Mighty: The Performance Imperative for Small
Nonprofits – Page | PDF
Performance Practice: Learn, Improve, Repeat – Page
- Courageous, adaptive executive and board leadership – Page | PDF
- Disciplined, people-focused management – Page | PDF
- Well-designed and well-implemented programs and strategies – Page | PDF
- Financial health and sustainability – Page | PDF
- A culture that values learning – Page | PDF
- Internal monitoring for continuous improvement – Page | PDF
- External evaluation for mission effectiveness – Page | PDF
- All Modules – Page | PDF
- What’s the Performance Practice? – Video
Pittsburgh Learning Circles Program
- Pittsburgh Learning Circles Program – Page | PDF
- Better Together: A Guide to Starting a Regional Approach for Nonprofit Learning and Improvement – Page | PDF
Funding Performance Campaign
Funding Performance: How Great Donors Invest in Grantee Success
- Full Monograph – Page | PDF | Audio Book | Kindle | Apple Book
- Preface – PDF | Audio
- Rising to Our Times: The Five Habits of Highly Effective Funders by Lowell Weiss – PDF | Audio
- Are You Helping Grantees Succeed—Or Trying to Catch Them Messing Up? by Sam Cobbs – PDF | Audio
- If Not Now, When?: From Virtue Signaling to Self Examination by Hilary Pennington – PDF | Audio
- We Depend on Well-Led and Well-Managed Grantees by Daniel Stid – PDF | Audio
- Accelerating the Movement Toward Funding Practices That Strengthen Nonprofits by Jeri Eckhart Queenan and Jeff Bradach – PDF | Audio
- What Grantees Need From Funders at This Time of Tumultuous Change by Hilda Polanco and Deborah Linnell – PDF | Audio
Funding Performance Profiles
- How Donors Can Do More Good – Page | PDF
- A Better-Angels Funder Practices What it Preaches – Einhorn Family Charitable Trust – Page | PDF
- Invested in Empathetic Challenge – Impetus Private Equity Foundation – Page | PDF
- Brain + Heart + Ears – The Blagrave Trust – Page | PDF
- We’ve Walked in Your Shoes – Weingart Foundation – Page | PDF
- Blunt Talk, Sharp Thinking – Mulago Foundation – Page | PDF
- Meaning, Purpose, and Joy – Philanthropist Duncan Campbell – Page | PDF
- Network Effect – Venture Philanthropy Partners – Page | PDF
- Growth Mindset – Raikes Foundation – Page | PDF
- Ecosystems Thinker – Rose Letwin and Wilburforce Foundation – Page | PDF
- ‘Tell Us What You Need to Succeed’ – Dalio Education’s Connecticut Opportunity Project – Page | PDF
Ambassador Insights
- In Practice: How Foundations Can Compensate Stakeholders for Their Time – Page | PDF
- Examine Your Own Equity Practices Before Asking Grantees – Page | PDF
- Advancing Equity Through Feedback – Page | PDF
- How Your Financial Management Reflects Your Equity Values – Page | PDF
- When Everything Needs to Change – Page | PDF
- The Power of Circles – Page | PDF
- It Was Always a Chess Match – Page | PDF
- Great Conversations, the Virtual Way – Page | PDF
- Board Stewardship for Mission Effectiveness and Performance – Page | PDF
- CEO Insights: Graceful Exit – Succession Planning for High-Performance CEOs – Page | PDF
- CEO Insights: Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Page | PDF
- CEO Insights: Is a Nonprofit Board Best Suited to Evaluate its CEO? – Page | PDF
- Measurement Reconsidered – Page
- SIBs: What’s Missing? – Page | PDF
- Congratulations! You’ve Gotten PPP…Now What? – Page | PDF
- Determined to Survive: Factors to Consider – Page | PDF
- Responding to COVID-19 in an Equitable Way – Page | PDF
- Performance-Based Contracting: Rules for the Road – Page | PDF
- Statistical vs. Social Significance – Page | PDF
- Strength in Numbers: Building the Case for Full-Cost Funding from State and Local Government – Page | PDF
- Structuring a Director of Outcomes and Evaluation Position – Page | PDF
- Technology Helps and Hinders: Lessons From Four Nonprofit Leaders – Page | PDF
- Develop Strong Fiscal Muscles – Page | PDF
- Helping Your Team During Crisis – Page | PDF
- Is Earned Income Worth It? – Page | PDF
Performance in Action
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay: Four Bold Moves – Page | PDF
- Performance Practice for New Leaders: Springboard to High Performance –Page | PDF
- Lawrence School: Collective Process, Smart Solutions – Page
- Tri-County Cradle to Career: Forging a Path to Educational Equity – Page | PDF
- Lawrence School: First -Person POV: A Kick in Our Behinds – Page | PDF
- Friends of the Children: A Year of Leadership Development – Page | PDF
- WINGSs For Kids: When WINGS Leaders Fly High, So Do Children – Page | PDF
- Southview Community Church: Aha Moment, “Gut Check,” and Plan to Keep Learning – Page | PDF
- The Center for Violence-Free Relationships: From Self-Reflection to Real Results – Page | PDF
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