Funders Learning Circle
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Grant makers invest in leadership development for many different reasons. There are three broad categories of goals and benefits that grant makers are interested in when they support this work: Stronger and more effective leaders and organizations; Social change in a community, region, or field; and, Benefits for the grant maker’s own organization.
Authors: Deborah Meehan, Ellen Arrick
Subjects: leadership development, funders, grantcraft, guide, guides-tools-reports
09/28/2003 - 00:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
International Leadership Association Conference
Date:
11/12/2008 - 4:00pm - 11/15/2008 - 4:00pm US/Eastern
Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future will be taking place this fall in Los Angeles California. Featured guests include Christine Loh, Connie Rice and Jay Conger. read more »
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Meeting of Funders and Evaluation Learning Circles
Date:
10/27/2008 - 9:00am - 10/28/2008 - 1:00pm US/Eastern
"You cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that was used to create them." --Albert Einstein read more »
LLC Event:
LLC Event
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This meeting will bring together leadership funders and evaluators to address some of the following questions:
* What changes in design, curriculum and recruitment strategies of leadership programs
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The purposes of conducting and evaluating the results of this survey were to: explore the benefits and potential hazards of cost benefit analysis; harvest early learning about what constitutes a strong return on investment (e.g. numbers, strategic impact, etc.) and how it is achieved; and,explore methodologies and approaches for gathering data about the return on leadership investments.
Authors: Claire Reinelt
Subjects: cost benefit, roi, return on investment, program costs, funders, evaluation
04/22/2008 - 09:42 - 3 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
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Powerpoint presentation on Berkana Institute's theory of change, the evaluation questions they are asking, and the challenges they have faced. This presentation was given at a Boston LLC gathering on September 21, 2007.
Authors: Debbie Frieze
Subjects: evaluation, boston, networks, communities of practice, Berkana
09/22/2007 - 00:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Claire Reinelt
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The production of this scan is an outgrowth of meetings of Greater Washington region grantmakers to explore opportunities for working together to accelerate positive changes in the region. The funders group identified the need to build the leadership capacity in the region and collectively decided to commission a scan to better understand the leadership needs and the strengths and limitations of local leadership and capacity building efforts. They partnered with the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, an organization committed to building the strength, visibility, and influence of the nonprofit sector. The Roundtable invited the Leadership Learning Community (LLC) to conduct the scan.
Authors: Deborah Meehan, Leadership Learning Community, Claire Reinelt, Raquel Gutierrez
Subjects: leadership development, funders, washingtondc, scan, collaboration
05/27/2005 - 00:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
Learning about Networks
Welcome to the Evaluation Learning Circle blog space! We invite you to register to our site and create your own blog to share resources, ideas, and stimulate conversations about leadership development evaluation that are important to you. Here's my first blog post.... In the last few years there has been growing interest among those in the leadership development field to develop and strengthen leadership networks. One of the tools for understanding networks is Social Network Analysis (SNA). read more »
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Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. helps grantmaking foundations, individual and family donors, and philanthropic networks to achieve their missions. Our learning products fall into three interrelated categories: * Strategy & Program Design * Organizational Learning & Evaluation * Philanthropic Industry Analysis Visit the link below to see the list of documents (pdf format) available for download.
Authors: Amy Luckey
Subjects: evaluation, funders, philanthropy, research, program design
07/18/2007 - 13:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Submitted by Elissa Perry on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 11:58
Address:
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-547-6600
Fax: 410-547-6624
Website: http://www.aecf.org
Regions Funded:
Leadership Development Support Offered:
Mission Statement and Connection to Leadership Development:
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-547-6600
Fax: 410-547-6624
Website: http://www.aecf.org
Regions Funded:
Leadership Development Support Offered:
Mission Statement and Connection to Leadership Development:
The Foundation and its partners are working to build a field well resourced with leaders capable of creating better futures for disadvantaged children and families.
Description of Relationship with/Involvement in Leadership Development Work:
We do this work by identifying emerging leaders and improving the skills of managers who can oversee cutting-edge organizations, implement complex system reforms, and lead struggling community-based groups. Our contribution to building a field of leaders seeks to:
- Supply major systems reform and community change efforts with qualified and capable leaders knowledgable in what works to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Strengthen the leadership, organizational capacity, and financial sustainability of public and nonprofit grantees whose work is essential to the Foundation’s mission.
- Support parents and residents across communities as they learn skills and take up leadership roles in the Foundation’s major initiatives.
Organizational Profile Part II
Leadership Development Funding Focus Area:
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This book provides broad and practical information about how to conduct leadership development evaluations using a variety of approaches, many of which have been recently developed. We have intentionally sought authors from a variety of sectors (nonprofit, academic, for-profit, and governmental agencies) to increase the diversity of perspectives, expertise, and experiences represented in these pages. The target populations and program designs covered in this handbook are also diverse; we believe this book represents a powerful opportunity for cross-program and cross-sector learning. In the rich online companion to the book we offer brief summaries of each of the chapters along with resources for each chapter and links to the resources where possible. This information is available by clicking on the book's section titles or chapter headings. To learn more about the content or ordering the book, visit the companion site now (click on the link below to access the companion site).
Authors: Kelly Hannum, Jennifer W. Martineau, Claire Reinelt
Subjects: leadership development, handbook, guide, evaluation
11/29/2006 - 01:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry
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The Evaluation Learning Circle engaged interested circle members in an inquiry process to better understand how personal transformation links to organizational, community, and social/systemic change, and how to evaluate it. Eighteen topics for inquiry were proposed. Participants were asked to engage in their own inquiry process over a six month period in advance of our gathering in September. Prior to the meeting, participants were asked to share the results of their inquiry. During the session, we had three conversation catalysts that focused on the benefits of investing in evaluation collaborations for cross-program learning and building the knowledge of the field. Four domains of change, and representative indicators, emerged from our collective responses as well as potential directions for evaluation work and a list of resources. Download the summary document of the process and the session below.
Authors: Claire Reinelt, Kim Hsieh
Subjects: evaluation, funders, cross program
11/27/2004 - 01:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
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Foundation resource guides entitled Commissioning Multicultural Evaluation and supporting materials. Participants worked with guiding principles for multicultural evaluation to assess the cultural proficiency of leadership development evaluations.
Authors: Hanh Cao Yu
Subjects: bay area, multicultural, leadership development, guides-tools-reports, evaluation, california endowment
06/18/2007 - 10:32 - 0 comments - 4 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry
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This document summarizes a focus group of young people, ages 18 - 28 who came together to address questions of intercultural leadership. They spoke to life experiences that compelled them to reach out across their own cultures, the skills that enabled them to do this successfully, and lessons about how to cultivate these abilities in leaders.
Authors: Taj James
Subjects: pipeline, nextgen, leadership, intercultural, generational transfer, emerging, bridging, boundary-crossing leadership
11/05/2001 - 01:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
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Bay Area leadership development programs met to identify skills critical to bridging competency and practices that develop these skills.
Authors: Leadership Learning Community, Deborah Meehan
Subjects: losangeles, leadership, corecompetencies, california, bridge leadership, boundary-crossing leadership
08/05/2001 - 00:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
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The LLC convened a gathering of 15 recognized Bridge Leaders in Los Angeles. The LLC was asked to host this discussion by 5 California foundations responding to a request from the community in the aftermath of the LA riots. Participants were asked how to cultivate and support bridge leaders.
Authors: Leadership Learning Community, Deborah Meehan
Subjects: losangeles, leadership, corecompetencies, california, bridge leadership, boundary-crossing leadership
08/05/2001 - 00:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
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The Leadership Learning Community has partnered with the Annie E. Casey Foundation on a research project to draw on the combined experience of more than 100 leadership programs with regard to strategies for increasing the access to and sustainability of leadership positions for people of color in the sector. The first phase of the project focused on the "pipeline," was titled "Lessons from the Field of Leadership Development: How to Increase Leadership Opportunities for People of Color" and was led by Deborah Meehan. The second phase of the project was titled "Multiple Styles of Leadership: Increasing the Participation of People of Color in the Leadership of the Nonprofit Sector" and was led by Elissa Perry. Download the notes from one of the focus groups and reports from both phases of the work below.
Authors: Kate Oppenheimer, Jamie Schenker, Elissa Perry, Deborah Meehan
Subjects: bay area, race, pipeline, next generation, leadership styles, generational transfer, emerging leaders, culture
05/15/2007 - 13:52 - 0 comments - 5 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry
