Deborah Meehan
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
09/27/2003 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
Over the past 50 years our thinking about leadership, whether in communities or board rooms, has been heavily influenced by heroic models of leadership. We traditionally think of leadership as the skills, qualities and behavior of an individual who exerts influence over others to take action or achieves a goal using their position and authority. Leadership for a New Era was launched because we believe this way of thinking about leadership is only one part of the story -- one that does not fully recognize leadership as a process grounded in relationships that are fluid, dynamic, non-directive and non-unilateral. Understanding leadership as a process requires us to think very differently about how change occurs and how we work with others. We will never mobilize leadership at the scale needed for significant progress on social justice or any other complex issue without expanding our thinking about what leadership is, how it works and how we can support it.
Authors: Leadership for a New Era Partners, Deborah Meehan, Claire Reinelt
Subjects: social change, Leadership for a New Era
04/19/2010 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - Posted by Natalia Castaneda
Leadership Matters: An Evaluation of Six Family Planning and Reproductive Health Leadership Programs
Exploring evaluation in leadership development.
Authors: Lily Kelly-Radford, Deborah Meehan, David Altman, Claire Reinelt
Subjects: leadership, evaluation
03/23/2004 - 23:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - Posted by Natalia Castaneda
In early 2009, the Leadership Team at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation commissioned a scan to identify promising strategies for supporting and enhancing leadership that can make significant progress on undoing structural racism; and healing, repairing and reconciling communities. This public document shares some of the core insights from the scan and highlights a number of national programs that are doing leading edge work in these areas.
Authors: Eilssa Perry, Deborah Meehan, Claire Reinelt
Subjects: racial justice, Racial equity, Leadership for a New Era
07/14/2009 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Claire Reinelt