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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Nonprofit leadership handover planner",
 "summary": "Plan nonprofit leadership succession. Give it your leadership risks and departure timing. You get emergency cover, a search timeline and a handover plan.",
 "headline": "Nonprofit leadership handover planner",
 "subhead": "Share your leadership roles, key risks, and any planned departure date. It separates sudden absence cover from a planned leadership change. You get acting-role limits, a search timeline, internal development steps, and a relationship handover plan for the board to review.",
 "job": {
  "id": "lead-people",
  "name": "Lead and manage people"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Leadership roles, existing backup plan, board decision rules, key relationships, and departure timing if known."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "An emergency cover plan and, when needed, a planned search and leadership handover."
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Your executive director is also the founder, and you want a plan before they leave.",
  "Your board has no written plan for what happens if your leader is suddenly unable to work.",
  "A retirement is one to three years away and you need a search and handover timeline.",
  "One person holds your key donor relationships and you want to move them on purpose."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You want to fix low staff morale or turnover below the top: use the Nonprofit staff retention skill, or talk with your team first.",
  "You need to recruit new board members: use the Nonprofit board recruitment skill.",
  "You need messages for staff and donors about a change already under way: use the Nonprofit change management skill."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your leadership roles and who could step in today",
   "Your board's decision rules and who the board contact is",
   "Your key donor and funder relationships held by one person",
   "Planned departure date (optional)",
   "Any internal successor you are considering (optional)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI chat tool. No code or paid tools are needed.",
   "A board that will review and approve the plan"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Emergency cover plan",
    "contains": "The acting leader, what they can and cannot decide alone, the board contact, and where access records are kept."
   },
   {
    "name": "Readiness assessment",
    "contains": "A frank check of money, reliance on the outgoing leader's relationships, written-down knowledge, and staff depth, with founder risk named."
   },
   {
    "name": "Successor development steps",
    "contains": "How to judge internal candidates against leadership skills and build their growth plans well before the change."
   },
   {
    "name": "Route decision",
    "contains": "The choice between internal promotion, open search, or interim then search, with the reasons written down."
   },
   {
    "name": "Interim terms",
    "contains": "The temporary leader's scope, authority and a set end date, written so staff and funders are not left unsure."
   },
   {
    "name": "Search timeline",
    "contains": "The steps from job description to board vote, with realistic time for the search."
   },
   {
    "name": "Handover plan",
    "contains": "Dates for knowledge transfer and donor introductions, plus the outgoing leader's limited role afterward."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Download the skill folder. In Claude, open Customize → Skills, then choose + → Create skill → Upload a skill. In ChatGPT, add the files to a project's Sources. In Gemini, make a Gem and paste the instructions. Or paste the instructions into a chat.",
  "Ask your AI to follow this skill. Include the files and details listed on this page."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit change rollout planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-change-rollout-planner",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit executive board report writer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-executive-board-report-writer",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Nonprofit Skills",
  "repo": "sector-skills/nonprofit-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/volunteer-people/nonprofit-succession-planning",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "nonprofit-succession-planning",
  "commit": "7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "nonprofit-succession-planning skill",
   "by": "Nonprofit Skills",
   "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/volunteer-people/nonprofit-succession-planning",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps."
  },
  {
   "title": "Original author",
   "by": "Brendon Connelly",
   "url": "https://brendonconnelly.com",
   "used": "Wrote the skill; Nonprofit Skills shared it in their collection."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner.zip",
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  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/nonprofit-leadership-handover-planner",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
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