What We're Learning | Summer 2026
Here’s what the Leading Edge team is learning about culture, executives, and boards this summer.
State of Nonprofits 2026 Report
Nonprofit organizations across the country are navigating an extraordinarily difficult context. Many are contending with simultaneous and compounding pressures, including greater demand for their services and an increasingly challenging funding landscape. This report provide a clearer understanding of the pressures they are facing and the steadfast ways they’re responding to mounting challenges.
READ MORE AT THE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY
CULTURE
The New Career Odyssey Waiting for Today’s College Grads
With AI set to reshape the working world, Gen Z can expect to hold twice as many jobs as previous generations.
READ MORE AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Podcast: How Strong Teams Leverage Different Personality Types
A multi-chapter case study explores what it takes to turn team tension into traction.
LISTEN AT COLD CALL - HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
- Essential Partners: America @ 250 Dialogue Guide
- Jewish Federations of North America: Small Jewish communities face unique hurdles, need investment
- Tiny Windows: That’s All: What The Devil Wears Prada 2 Teaches Jewish Institutions
EXECUTIVES
From stewardship to shared responsibility: How Jewish leadership is changing
The opportunity before us is to not simply to absorb this wave of post-Oct. 7 engagement into existing structures.
READ MORE AT EJEWISH PHILANTHROPY
Effective leadership skills: How to develop them
Learn which leadership skills matter most in 2026, see real-world examples of what they look like, and explore how to build them across your organization.
READ MORE AT CULTURE AMP
MORE
- Harvard Business Review: The False Alignment Trap
- The Jewish Star: Met Council: AI should aid, not replace, workers
- Andrés Spokoiny: The Problem with Jewish Values
BOARDS
Board Monitor US 2026 | Future-focused boards
Some boards are finding effective ways to balance short- and long-term considerations — and overseeing stronger performance than others.
READ MORE AT HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES
Let’s ensure governance keeps pace with this moment
Jewish organizations spend enormous energy talking about innovation in programs, strategy and engagement. We spend far less time asking whether our governance architecture enables those ambitions or quietly impedes them.
READ MORE AT EJEWISH PHILANTHROPY
MORE:
- Deloitte Insights: The board’s role in bolstering tech resilience
- Forbes: Effective Versus Dysfunctional: What The Best Boards Do
- World Economic Forum: Do corporate boards have a foresight problem?
About the Author
Leading Edge raises the standard for talent, culture, and leadership across the Jewish nonprofit sector. We work with professionals, executives, and board leaders to build stronger organizations and drive their missions forward.
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