Third Sector Company

Third Sector Company is about community. It always has been. In 2002, a group of about 40 nonprofit executives from leading organizations, both large and small, from throughout the Greater Los Angeles area gathered to talk about the growing amount of turnover occurring amongst their peers. At the same time, the funding community was realizing the nonprofit sector was ill prepared for executive transitions complicated by few nonprofit organizations having directed activities aimed at succession planning, executive retention, and talent pipelines cultivating future staff and board leaders. With a mission statement of “leadership continuity for the nonprofit sector,” the group formed a professional community, under the leadership of former Senior Vice President of Community Development for United Way of Greater Los Angeles, Jeffrey Wilcox, which would later incorporate; first, as Executive Consulting for the Nonprofit Sector, and, later, Third Sector Company, Inc.