Leadership Development While nonprofits are strong in charity, they appear chronically anemic when it comes to investing in crucial leadership development. “In one recent survey of nearly 1,200 nonprofit leaders, only 20% said they were very confident that they had the leadership abilities to enable their team to achieve its goals. Meanwhile, many were planning to leave their jobs. Almost 70% said would do so within the next five years. And only around 20% of the surveyed leaders had a formal succession plan for their own or other leadership positions"… "Few funders currently support nonprofit leadership development, but I believe that it would be well worth their money to do so. The nonprofit sector has the third-largest workforce in the U.S., behind retail and manufacturing, around 11.4 million jobs. These significant employers cannot succeed by instinct or good will, without leadership training, coaching, or mentoring.” Article: Nonprofit Organizations are Suffering From a Leadership Gap.