About LeaderBridge^®

Founded by the Crimsonbridge Foundation, the LeaderBridge initiative invests in leadership development for local leaders underrepresented in the Greater Washington region to strengthen the nonprofit sector and community. Since 2016, more than 200 local nonprofit leaders have advanced their professional skills through LeaderBridge.

As an early LeaderBridge collaborator and the region's largest nonprofit capacity builder, Spur Local will carry LeaderBridge forward and expand its reach in 2025 and beyond. The Crimsonbridge Foundation will continue to support nonprofit leadership development through grantmaking and strategic communications.

If you are an interested local nonprofit leader, please find more information about LeaderBridge programs below.

Current Programs

Registration is now open!

Self-ology: An Idari Experience

A transformative 7-week program designed exclusively for women leaders of color in the local nonprofit sector.

In this thoughtfully curated experience and sacred space, reconnect with your inner strength and purpose while sharing the journey with like-minded, powerful female leaders.

Format: 7 cohort sessions and 3, 1:1 coaching sessions

Registration Deadline: April 21, 2025

Apogee Strengths Leadership Coaching

A six-month, comprehensive program tailored for nonprofit C-Suite executives.

This program enhances your leadership effectiveness, fosters team cohesion, optimizes organizational performance, and builds positive external relationships.

Format: 10, 1:1 coaching sessions and 2 cohort sessions

Registration Deadline: April 14, 2025

Public Narrative

Public narrative is a practice that builds mutual understanding and strengthens the bonds among diverse races, ethnicities, age, gender, class, and educational backgrounds.

Through this training, you will learn how to build long-last trusting relationships and work together to achieve a common goal.

Format: 3 group workshop sessions

Registration Deadline: April 30, 2025

Upcoming Programs

More details coming soon!

Access Coaching Collective

A personalized 1:1 coaching program for 10 nonprofit leaders using a thought-provoking and creative process designed to help you show up as the leader you want to be.

Each coaching relationship is centered around your unique goals—whether personal, professional, or organizational—and focuses on developing actionable strategies to achieve them.

Spur Local's BIPOC Emerging Leaders Cohort

A cohort designed for current BIPOC Executive Directors of local nonprofits with less than 3 years of ED experience, or for senior staff that hope to rise into an executive role in the next couple of years.

In this cohort, focus on the hard skills, data, and trends around topics that leaders of color face, as well as your specific concerns and challenges when implementing the practices discussed.

About Spur Local

Spur Local (formerly the Catalogue for Philanthropy) cultivates critical connections between DMV residents and the nonprofits in their neighborhoods to strengthen local communities and spark big change. We believe that the future is local and that, together, we are a catalyst for good. Since 2003, Spur Local has raised over $65 million for hundreds of local nonprofits and grown to become the largest capacity builder in the region.

If you have any questions about registering for LeaderBridge programming, please email Chiara Frechette at leaderbridge@spurlocal.org.

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Spur Local is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. EIN: 20-5494704