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Where Do We Go? A New Career Narrative


Over the past decade, nonprofits have increased their interest in developing leadership as well as attracting and retaining a skilled work force. One motivator has been alarm that the aging baby boom generation will retire from the workplace during the next decades, creating a labor force gap particularly in leadership.

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About the Author
Frances Kunreuther directs the Building Movement Project (www.buildingmovement.org), which works to strengthen U.S. nonprofits as sites of democratic practice and advance ways the nonprofit sector can build movement for progressive social change.

She is co-author of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change (Cornell, 2006) and Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2008). Frances is also a senior fellow at the Research Center for Leadership and Action at NYU and spent five years at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.

She headed the Hetrick-Martin Institute for lesbian and gay youth, and was awarded a year-long Annie E. Casey Foundation fellowship in 1997 for this and her previous work. Over the years, Frances’ work has focused on populations such as homeless youth and families, undocumented immigrants, crime victims, battered women, and substance users. She is a writer and presenter on variety issues related to nonprofits and social change.