A transformative leadership development program for leaders of color that builds leadership confidence, management competencies, and the ability to unleash organizational change.
“I didn’t realize I could be a financial leader. I am able to go back to my organization and ask better questions, get better budgets, do better monitoring. It made a big difference for them and for me.”
THE APPLICATION PERIOD IS OPEN:
NOW IN ITS SIXTH YEAR,
NGLC is a transformative leadership development program that builds leadership confidence, management competencies, and the ability to unleash organizational change.
CompassPoint has designed this program specifically for leaders of color committed to working with their community peers to drive social change.
NGLC PARTICIPANTS...
Grow confidence in financial literacy, multicultural awareness, and supervisory and leadership skills.
Draw strength and support from other leaders of color.
Develop an invididualized professional development plan and partner with peers, facilitators, and coaches to reach leadership goals.
Gain self-awareness around personal leadership practices to better lead themselves, organizations, and communities.
Engage with leadership frameworks like adaptive leadership
Examine leadership, managing people, and managing money all within the context of race, culture, power and privilege.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Next Generation Leaders of Color focuses on two of the critical content areas that pose significant challenges for many community-based managers and leaders.
The first challenge is to supervise, develop, inspire, and influence people.
The second challenge is to develop business acumen with an emphasis on financial strategy, comprehension, and literacy.
Using a multicultural framework that examines cultural dimensions in managing people and organizational finances, this program deepens the management and leadership capabilities of individual participants, while increasing the overall health and sustainability of their current and future organizations of employment.
Watch “Humanity”
by NGLC alum
Angelica Resendez
(2013-2014)
In this video, Angelica Resendez shares what it meant to step fully into her whole self and the impact it had on her as she embraced her role as a social changemaker.
“Before this program, I looked at other leaders and I thought there were special. Now I see that I have the tools and knowledge to join them, to speak up, to participate, and to lead.”
A VISION FOR THRIVING LEADERS OF COLOR
CompassPoint conceived of the Next Generation Leaders of Color program in the wake of our 2008 Ready to Lead Next Generation Leaders Speak Out study. As part of this study, we surveyed nearly 6,000 emerging leaders from across the country about the disadvantages and benefits of heading a nonprofit organization and found that:
1. Less than 1/3 of all survey respondents identified as people of color who held senior management or director positions in their organizations (those who report directly to the executive director).
2. People of color expressed a greater need for management skills to prepare for executive leadership than white respondents.
3. For people of color who were actively seeking a job outside of their organization, this group was twice as likely as white respondents to leave the nonprofit sector for their next job.
4. Of the preparation needs cited to become the executive director, respondents prioritized the needs to develop further external connections and networks, technical management skills and leadership capabilities.
We've designed a space exclusively for leaders of color because we believe that participants can address, examine and discuss more safely and freely the ways in which race, culture, power and privilege play out in their organizations as both barriers to progress and facilitators of change.
For a full list of previous participating organizations, click here.
Our special thanks to The California Wellness Foundation, The California Endowment, and the S.H. Cowell Foundation whose support makes it possible for us to serve a diverse mix of communities, organizations, and causes through the thoughtful, committed leaders participating in NGLC.