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We Greatly Appreciate Your Participation
The National Nonprofit
Sustainability and Succession Survey
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Organizational sustainability is key to consistent, long-term mission results and effectiveness for nonprofit organizations.This survey is designed to gather information about the state of organizational sustainability and leadership succession among leading nonprofits in the United States. The data will provide nonprofit leaders with insights about the organizational sustainability and succession planning that can be used to develop a stronger, more sustainable future for your nonprofit.
Approximately 1 in 10 nonprofit CEO positions turn over each year, and turnover rises as the Boomer generation retires.
All participants will receive:
- A summary report
- An invitation to attend a webinar or in-person meeting to discuss implications of the survey findings.
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ALL RESPONSES ARE CONFIDENTIAL. Only TransitionGuides and McGladrey LLP have access to the raw data. Only aggregate data and non-attributed comments will be reported.
Questions about the survey, contact:
Tom Adams, President
TransitionGuides
Phone: (301) 439-6635
Email: info@transitionguides.com
Bob Billig, Partner
McGladrey LLP
Phone: (866) 239-8790
Email: nfp@mcgladrey.com
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Next Steps Workshop
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A Two-Day Workshop
Exclusively for Nonprofit
Founders & Long-Term
Executives
2013 NEXT STEPS WORKSHOPS
July 18-19, 2013
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Baltimore, MD
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Take a Journey! Explore Personal and Organizational Goals! Discover How Succession Planning, Sustainability Planning, and Transition Planning Can Launch a Successful Legacy!
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| Clients of 2012 |
TransitionGuides
also had the privilege of working with these outstanding
nonprofit organizations in 2012
Food Banks
Arkansas Foodbank Network, Inc.
(Little Rock, AK)
Association of Arizona Food Banks
(Phoenix, AR)
Feeding America
(Chicago, IL)
Maryland Food Bank
(Halethorpe, MD)
Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland
(Baltimore, MD)
Oregon Food Bank
(Portland, OR)
Developmental/Behavioral Health/
Health Related Organizations
Affinity Health Plan
(Bronx, NY)
Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Health Care
(Baltimore, MD)
InVision Human Services
(Pittsburgh, PA)
Maternal and Child Heath Consortium of Chester County
(Chester County, PA)
Mental Health Association of Montgomery County
(Rockville, MD)
Morris Heights Health Center
(Bronx, NY)
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
(Washington, DC)
Penn-Mar Human Services
(Freeland, MD)
St. John's Community Services
(Washington, DC)
Housing/Community Development
Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority
(Alexandria, VA)
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina
(Thomasville, NC)
Christian Activities Council
(Hartford, CT)
Greenbelt Homes
(Greenbelt, MD)
Housing Initiative Partnership
(Hyattsville, MD)
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
(Oakland, CA)
Latino Economic Development Corporation
(Washington, DC)
NeighborImpact
(Redmond, OR)
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
(New York, NY)
Reliance Housing Foundation
(Asheville, NC)
Tenderloin Neighborhood Housing Development Corporation
(San Francisco, CA)
Other Nonprofit Organizations
Advertising Research Foundation
(New York, NY)
AFYA Baltimore
(Baltimore, MD)
American Antitrust Institute
(Washington, DC)
American Visionary Art Museum
(Baltimore, MD)
Baltimore Clayworks
(Baltimore, MD)
Community Action Partnership
(Washington, DC)
Children First for Oregon
(Portland, OR)
Clear View School
(Briarcliff Manor, NY)
College Bound
(Cerritos, CA)
Domestic Violence Center of Howard County
(Columbia, MD)
Family Matters of Greater Washington
(Washington, DC)
Georgia Justice Project
(Atlanta, GA)
Leadership Montgomery
(Rockville, MD)
Lines for Life
(Portland, OR)
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
(Baltimore, MD)
National Association of Charter School Authorizers (Chicago, IL) National Conference on Citizenship (Washington, DC)
National Family Caregivers Association
(Kensington, MD)
Nonprofit Roundtable
(Washington, DC)
Pennsylvania Alliance for Geography Education
(Shippensburg, PA)
Pro Bono Institute
(Washington, DC)
Public Knowledge
(Washington, DC)
Rainbow Days
(Dallas, TX)
Racial Diversity Collaborative
(Baltimore, MD)
Salus University
(Elkins Park, PA)
Scranton Area Foundation
(Scranton, PA)
Society for International Development (Washington, DC)
South Arts
(Atlanta, GA)
South Dakota Voices for Children
(Sioux Falls, SD)
UMOM New Day Centers
(Phoenix, AR)
YMCA of the USA
(Washington, DC)
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Greetings!
TransitionGuides seeks to make the world a more just, caring, and sustainable place. We achieve that mission by serving organizations with similar values and helping them meet their goals.
Last year, we were fortunate to work with a number of extraordinary organizations. Our annual report for 2012 features three of these organizations. We have provided links for you to learn more about these organizations, as well as links to other clients from the past year. We deeply appreciate the opportunities we have had over the past two decades to work alongside so many fine organizations. We would like to highlight three of these great organizations:
- Atlanta Community Food Bank, Atlanta, Georgia
- Morris Heights Community Center, Bronx, New York
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc, Baltimore, Maryland
We hope you'll enjoy learning a bit more about them.
TransitionGuides, in partnership with McGladrey, would appreciate hearing from you by participating in a National Nonprofit Sustainability and Succession survey. Your participation will help nonprofit leaders develop more sustainable organizations!
Best wishes for continued success in 2013!
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| Atlanta Community Food Bank (Atlanta, GA) |
Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) is considered by many to be one of the top hunger-fighting organizations in the country. GeorgiaTrend named Executive Bill Bolling "2012 Georgian of the Year." 
The organization, founded by Bolling in 1979, was the first food bank in the Southeast, operating out of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta. ACFB operates quite efficiently, combining the efforts of 100-plus staff and 1,000 volunteers a month to distribute 35 million pounds of groceries and food annually. It has a fleet of trucks, and a 129,000 square-foot facility. The facility is LEED-certified, a first for any food bank in the country, and includes a large rooftop solar power array.
Fighting hunger is a social endeavor, and ACFB energetically builds community, bringing together people of different backgrounds, including those without homes, neighborhood residents, community leaders, senators, and corporate CEOs. Recently it convened 23 community dialogues across 29 counties and conducted an online survey to better understand the needs of its partner agencies. ACFB's numerous donors and partners are a testament to its community-wide support: manufacturers, wholesalers, large food retailers, growers, restaurants, banks, financial groups, civic groups, foundations, workplaces, and many individuals.
ACFB has a number of other projects, including the Community Gardens Project, which starts community gardens; Kids In Need, which provides school supplies for Title I schools; The Atlanta Prosperity Campaign, which helps hard-working families take steps to meet basic needs and build financial security; the Mobile Food Pantry, which brings food to areas that have great need but lack storage capacity; the Atlanta Apartment Association's Food-a-thon, which raises money and food donations for families in need; and a Hunger Walk/Run that raises money for local hunger relief agencies.
The agency's strategic plan focuses on building the capacity and effectiveness of its network, developing human capital, expanding and diversifying food sources and nutritional value, increasing the volume of food distributed, and dispersing food geographically.
Atlanta Community Food Bank is an extraordinary nonprofit, and we feel privileged to have worked with them on succession and sustainability planning.
 | Teachers stock up on supplies at Kids In Need,
Atlanta Community Food Bank's school supplies program.
(Photo courtesy ACFB website) |
- AT A GLANCE -
- Bill Bolling, executive director, has been instrumental in the start-up of food banks across the country.
- Founded in 1979; annually procures and distributes 35 million pounds of food and groceries to more than 600 nonprofit partner agencies serving families and individuals in 29 metro Atlanta and north Georgia counties.
- TransitionGuides assisted with succession and sustainability planning.
- Atlanta Community Food Bank 2011 Annual Report :
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(PDF), (YouTube)
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Morris Heights Community Health Center (Bronx, NY)
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Morris Heights Health Center (MHHC), founded in 1981 by current p
President and CEO, Verona Greenland, has realized its vision to be in the vanguard for high-quality, affordable, and accessible healthcare. The organization began as a small, storefront medical facility and now has six facilities and 10 school-based health centers, integrating health services and social services.
Services include primary care, specialty care, counseling, in-patient care, patient education and training, school-based health services, teenage pregnancy prevention, and supportive programs for young families.
The organization understands that health involves social and environmental conditions, and this unique approach is proving very effective. For example, a recent report showed that Morris Heights Health Center's youth development project, Changing the Odds, has increased school attendance rates and decreased risky behavior. In 2010, the
 | Harrison Circle, Morris Heights Health Center's new, six-story facility, includes housing for low-income seniors, supportive services, and healthcare services.
(Photo courtesy MHHC website) |
Center completed Harrison Circle, a $50 million mixed-use facility, which provides 70 units of low-income housing for seniors as well as expanded primary and specialty medical services. The facility is built to LEED Silver standards, contributing to its sustainability.
Morris Heights Community Health Center is supported by the Morris Heights Health Center Foundation, focused on serving the underserved, overcoming health disparities, and improving quality of life for participants.
TransitionGuides is pleased to be working with Morris Heights Health Center on strategic positioning and succession planning.
 | | (Photo courtesy of MHHC website) |
- AT A GLANCE -
- Verona Greenland, founder, President and CEO, has been at the forefront of the health center movement.
- In brief: Morris Heights Community Health Center, located in Bronx, NY; staff of 425; 60,000 medical, dental and psychosocial visits.
- TransitionGuides provided strategic positioning and succession planning.
 | | 2012 Annual Report |
- Annual Report 2012: (PDF)
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| CHAI - Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc. (Baltimore, MD) | |
Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc. (CHAI) helps make northwest Baltimore a better place to live. The organization's mission is to develop and support thriving, stable communities in neighborhoods with a substantial Jewish population. It is a major developer, provider, and operator of community-based services and affordable senior housing.
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CHAI came into existence through leadership of The Associated
(The Associated Jewish Federation of
Baltimore), community leaders and founding executive director Ken Gelula. Ken, who retired in December 2012, is considered the architect of CHAI's phenomenal success in developing services for the Northwest Baltimore communities it serves. Ken's successor, Mitch Posner, successfully led an ecumenical faith-based housing and social services organization and engaged in real estate development in Baltimore prior to his selection as CHAI's new executive.
Programs include homeownership training and promotion, services for vulnerable populations, neighborhood organizing, developing and managing affordable senior housing, rehabilitation and weatherization of homes, and school improvement through school/community partnerships.
CHAI's projects are quite varied. For example, the organization recently worked with a local neighborhood to install 150 solar lamp posts. Its Senior Home Repair Program helps low and moderate income homeowners with roof repairs, plumbing, electrical work, accessibility improvements, and handyman projects, while also offering benefits coordination. Much of this is done by professionals, but twice a year CHAI turns out hundreds of volunteers to work on projects.
By the numbers, CHAI is a busy place. Here is just a partial picture for 2012: CHAI helped 13 families purchase homes and helped 130 families with foreclosure prevention counseling. It trained or counseled almost 300 potential homebuyers. It completed close to 2,000 repairs and modifications for low- to moderate-income seniors, weatherized 174 homes, worked to organize a volunteer support network to help seniors age in place, completed an 86-unit affordable housing facility, and began work on a 60-unit residence for low-income seniors. It houses 1500 residents in 14 senior apartment buildings. It supports a community engagement process involving improving relations between African American and Jewish neighborhood residents.
In addition, this busy organization completed a smooth executive transition. TransitionGuides was honored to assist in searching for a new executive as founder Ken Gelula prepared to retire.
 | Another happy new homeowner,
courtesy of CHAI's Smart Homebuyer Workshop.
(Photo courtesy CHAI 2012 Annual Report) |
- AT A GLANCE -
- Mitch Posner, Executive Director; Ken Gelula, Founder
- In brief: CHAI, founded close to 30 years ago, supports thriving communities through loans to 20-30 households annually, home ownership counseling, home repair for low-income seniors, multifamily affordable senior housing, and related neighborhood development services.
- TransitionGuides performed an executive search to fill the position of the retiring founder/executive in 2012 and provided sustainability and succession planning assistance in 2011-2012.
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- Annual Report 2012: (PDF)
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Recently Completed Searches
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc., Executive Director (Baltimore, MD)
- Housing Initiative Partnership, Executive Director (Hyattsville, MD)
- Latino Economic Development Corporation, Chief Financial Officer (Washington, DC)
- Leadership Montgomery, Director of Member Engagement (Rockville, MD)
- Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations, President/CEO (Baltimore, MD)
- Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County, Chief Executive Officer (Chester County, PA)
- Mental Health Association of Montgomery County, Chief Executive Officer (Rockville, MD)
- National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities, CEO (Washington, DC)
- National Conference on Citizenship, Executive Director (Washington, DC)
- National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, President/CEO (New York, NY)
- NeighborImpact, Chief Executive Officer (Redmond, OR)
- Oregon Food Bank, Chief Executive Officer (Portland, OR)
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Next Steps Workshop
For Founders and Long-Term Executives
Presented by TransitionGuides
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Founders and long-term executives are personally invited to attend our upcoming Next Steps workshops:
- July 18-19, 2013: Baltimore, MD
- August 19-20, 2013: Philadelphia, PA
- January 27-28, 2014: Washington, DC
For more information and to register: Next Steps.
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Customized Workshops
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TransitionGuides had the opportunity to work with the following organizations in 2012. ANCOR - Webinar Series: Executive Transition, Succession Essentials, and Sustainability Planning- Alexandria, VA Annie E. Casey Foundation - Next Steps Workshop - Baltimore, MD Ausherman Family Foundation - Building a Sustainability Nonprofit - Frederick, MD Center for Leadership Innovation - Succession Planning, Leader Development and Managing Transitions - Charlotte, NC Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District - Successful Executive Transitions - Urbana, IL Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation - Next Steps Workshop - Washington, DC HandsOn Northwest North Carolina - Succession Planning and Organizational Readiness - Winston-Salem, MC Housing Assistance Council - Recruitment, Retention Workshop - Washington, DC Housing Development Fund - Board Strategic Planning Facilitation - Stamford, CT
Maryland Association of Community Services - Sustainability, Succession, Transition, and Retention - Flintstone, MD
NAHRO - Best Practices in Sustainability, Succession, and Search - Washington, DC & Nashville, TN
NeighborWorks America - Next Steps Workshop - Washington, DC
North Carolina Center for Nonprofits - Funder's Dialogue: CEO Transitions - Greensboro, NC
Opportunity Finance Network - Executive Transition Management - San Antonio, TX
PA Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities - Successful Leadership Succession - Harrisburg, PA
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust - Succession Planning for Executive and Board Teams - Phoenix, AZ
Virginia Housing Coalition - Succession Planning, Leader Development and Managing Transitions - Richmond, VA
------------- TransitionGuides provides workshops across the country. If you would like to schedule any of the above workshops for your organization, customize a workshop for your members, or learn more about other workshops we offer, visit our website and call our TransitionGuides office (301) 439-6635 today! |
We hope you found this issue useful and will forward it to others who may benefit from the ideas, lessons, and stories. As always, we value your feedback and comments. Let us know what topics you would like to read about or personal experiences and insights gained through your work that we could feature in a future issue. Feel free to contact Melody Thomas at mthomas@transitionguides.com.
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TransitionGuides is a consulting firm committed to leadership excellence. Our team of experienced and knowledgeable consultants helps find, support, and guide nonprofit leaders to build and sustain effective, vital organizations. Since 1995, TransitionGuides team has led over 500 executive search, transition, succession and sustainability projects for nonprofits across the country. Clients include local and national nonprofits, foundations, associations, and select government agencies. TransitionGuides offers the wisdom and experience that leading organizations need to identify and harness the power of change.
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