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MANP > Learn > Resources > The Answer Center: Resources for Nonprofits > Succession Planning

Succession Planning

To ensure organizational stability, nonprofit leaders and boards should actively discuss and prepare for how to manage the planned or unplanned departure of an executive director and/or other key leadership, including developing leadership capacity and putting an emergency succession plan in place.

  • Avoid Transition Trauma with a Succession Plan (Nonprofit Risk Management Center)
  • Building Leaderful Organizations (CompassPoint)
  • Executive Succession Planning Best Practices (BoardSource)
  • Succession Planning for Nonprofits (National Council of Nonprofits)
  • Succession Planning for Nonprofits of All Sizes (Blue Avocado)
  • Building Leadership Capacity: Reframing the Succession Challenge (The Bridgespan Group)
  • Risk Management Webinar: Succession Planning (NRMC Webinar Vault)
  • Nonprofit Executive Succession-Planning Toolkit (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
  • Stepping Up, Staying Engaged: Succession Planning and Executive Transition for Nonprofit Boards of Directors (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
  • A Succession Readiness Checklist (CompassPoint)
  • The Importance of Linking Leadership Succession, Strategy and Governance (Nonprofit Quarterly)
  • A Practical (and Possibly Provocative) Approach to Leadership Transitions (Nonprofit Quarterly)
  • Succession Planning for God's Gift (NonprofitQuarterly)
  • Succession Planning for [NOT] the CEO (Nonprofit Risk Management Center)
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