BE Development Partners

We founded BE Development Partners to bridge gaps weve seen in our over twenty years of work with missional nonprofit organizations. Many organizations are ill-equipped to deal with future trends and market demands. With limited resources to redesign organizational culture and practices, many in the nonprofit space are not diversifying their leader... ship teams and program design as fast as donor requirements and future workforce will require. Organizations are forced to respond to external pressures with the speed of innovations akin to startups, while their internal cultures remain entrenched in old-paradigm leadership, practices and policies that fail to take into account what is needed for greatest missional impact and the work/life needs and desires of the new, millennial workforce. Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard have worked together for several years to create trainings and development to develop the kinds of leaders required of creating Cultures of Belonging, a radically different way than what is practiced in organizations today. We believe that nonprofit leaders trained in this intersection of skillful hands and a servants heart are those who will be able to navigate in future landscape for missional nonprofits. We also bring to the table our excellence in research and evaluation to serve your organizations needs.Read More