About LeaderBridge^®

Founded by the Crimsonbridge Foundation, the LeaderBridge initiative invests in leadership development for local leaders 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.

Fall Programs

Registration is now open.

Five Steps for Leading Through Chaos Coaching Program

Right now, nonprofit leaders across the region are navigating conditions unlike anything most of us have led through before. Funding landscapes are shifting. Organizational stability is under threat. Community need is rising. And leaders are being asked to absorb it all, keep their teams together, and still move their missions forward. If that's where you are, you're not alone — and you're not failing. But you may need a different kind of support than the one you've been trying to give yourself.

Five Steps for Leading Through Chaos: A Human-Centered Strategy addresses the conditions nonprofit leaders are navigating right now. This 6-week session is designed for nonprofit executives and senior leaders in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region. Participants will leave with a personalized five-steps playbook, a one-on-one coaching session, and a peer network of DMV nonprofit leaders.

Sessions run from October-November 2026.

Registration deadline is August 31

Learn more and register here.

Spring Programs

Registration is currently closed.

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.

info@spurlocal.org

202-838-3015
80 M St SE, Ste 100, Washington, DC 20003
Spur Local is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. EIN: 20-5494704