About Us

CompassPoint helps leaders, nonprofit organizations, and movements
committed to social justice
realize their full power. 

We are a 43-year-old national nonprofit leadership practice based in Oakland, CA. We believe that nonprofits are powerful vehicles for positive social change and that creating a world free of oppression means practicing liberation inside and out.

We view leadership development
as a means to accelerating
social justice efforts. 

We connect leaders with essential skills and knowledge, cultivate powerful learning communities, and create time and space for people to explore the emotional dimensions of leadership so that we can shift ourselves, our organizations, and our world toward greater justice and equity. 

Our diverse team and key partners draw from a toolbox that includes facilitation, teaching, coaching, and peer learning. Our intensive cohort leadership programs bring together many modes of learning together and center deep relationship-building over multiple months or years. 

Through our publishing and communications, we curate useful resources, share what we’re learning in our own leadership practice, and report on important trends in the nonprofit sector.

Our Vision and Values
 

We strive to keep our values of racial justice, solidarity, radical imagination, place + community, accountability, learning + rigor, collaboration, and humor + joy at the center of everything we do. 

Explore our Vision and Values here. >