Nonprofits Seek to Fill 24,000 Leadership Roles in Downturn

American Express commissioned Bridgespan to conduct the survey in order to determine the nature and dimensions of the evolving nonprofit leadership deficit, the training and development needs within the sector, and to look at how managerial skills from the business sector can boost leadership capacity among nonprofits. The leadership vacancy anticipated so far for 2009 includes 24,000 managerial slots. Respondents reported that actual senior job openings in 2008 were running at 77,000, or 43% above a leadership gap forecast in Bridgespan’s 2006 study “The Nonprofit Sector’s Leadership Deficit.”