In 2002, Annie E. Casey Foundation launched an extensive research effort to better understand nonprofit executive transitions.  In collaboration with the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr., Fund, AECF hired Strategic Communications & Planning to manage the development of a monograph series exploring key aspects of leadership transitions for nonprofit organizations.  Working closely with three leading groups in the field, CompassPoint, Transition Guides, and the Building Movement Project, SCP has helped to write, edit, and design a comprehensive series of monographs exploring a variety of issues around nonprofit leadership transitions.

These relevant and timely documents have provided AECF with a growing set of tools and resources the Foundation and its partners are using to help prepare other funders/co-investors, practitioners, nonprofit organizations, and leaders themselves to handle the growing number of leadership transitions that lie ahead.

• Capturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
• Founder Transitions: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings: A Guide for Executive Directors and Boards
• Up Next: Generational Change and Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
• Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle