Claire Reinelt

Exploring evaluation in leadership development.

Authors: Lily Kelly-Radford, Deborah Meehan, David Altman, Claire Reinelt

Subjects: leadership, evaluation

03/23/2004 - 22:00 - 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 - 21:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Claire Reinelt

LLC, through its Community Seed Fund, recently supported four members of the Community (Bruce Hoppe, Meredith Emmett, Dianne Russell, and Odin Zackman) to test the usefulness of this methodology in different network contexts. The team produced a very informative summary about the outcomes of this project. One of the more interesting findings was that network maps can be a valuable tool for generating group reflection about itself. The study raised the question about which networks would find this a valuable tool and which might not. There is some indication that those networks that have a clear purpose, are more bounded and formalized, and that have outside funding, may be more motivated and interested in using network maps to deepen their understanding of themselves as a network. Another interesting lesson learned is that the interpretation of network maps is full of complexities. There is no single interpretation of what the maps mean. This means that the maps can lead to many interesting conversations. The summary does a nice job of specifying and evaluating the outcomes of the three projects that were part of the study. It provides valuable guidance to others who may consider undertaking an SNA of their leadership networks. In addition, the report analyzes the three networks along 11 dimensions. These will be helpful to you if you are looking to better understand the networks you are part of regardless of whether you use SNA or not. While our understanding of networks is still very much evolving, SNA is a promising tool to help us "see" leadership networks.

Authors: Claire Reinelt

Subjects: social network analysis

07/23/2009 - 11:58 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by admin

The Leadership Learning Community (LLC) was invited to conduct a scan of California based reproductive health leadership development resources for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The foundation, through its "Domestic Reproductive Rights" portfolio, invests in both policy and community leadership development. The foundation is especially interested in engaging "...young people and diverse constituencies, at to foster leadership that can speak to these groups."

Authors: Deborah Meehan, Claire Reinelt, Bella Celnik

Subjects: california, leadership development, scan, reproductive health

01/06/2009 - 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - Posted by bcelnik

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 - 05:42 - 3 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry

Twenty-five people attended a day-long learning circle on Disability and Diversity: Serving Those Who Are Underserved organized by the staff of the California Foundation of Independent Living Centers and facilitated by staff of the Leadership Learning Community. The purpose of the meeting was to engage providers, consumers, advocates, and disability professionals in a day-long inquiry to deepen understanding about why some people with disabilities are under-served and what can be done to improve utilization of services by all people with disabilities.

Authors: Claire Reinelt

Subjects: learning circle, diversity, disability, cfilc

03/03/2008 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry

Three LLC circles (Sustaining Networks/Alumni, Social Media and Leadership, and Health Leadership) convened for a conference call and web-based meeting using the WebEx platform to discuss creating and sustaining leadership networks. Twenty people explored the following questions: 1) What forms of collaboration and network creation are we seeing in the leadership development arena? 2) What tools or processes do we find strengthen leadership networks? And 3), What are the biggest challenges to sustaining network participation? Please see the blog post about this event for even more information and a link to the recording of the session.

Authors: Odin Zackman, Elissa Perry, Claire Reinelt

Subjects: sustainable networks, social media, learning circle, health

02/04/2008 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 2 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry

These are the notes from the meeting that was held at American Evaluators Association (AEA) to look at the intersections between leadership development and multi-cultural evaluation. Included are next steps to consider.

Authors: Claire Reinelt

Subjects: Community Seed Fund, multicultural, leadership, evaluation, development

12/10/2006 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry

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

05/26/2005 - 21:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry

A collection of individual leadership assessment resources and tools

Authors: Claire Reinelt

Subjects: evaluation, leadership development, guides-tools-reports

05/15/2001 - 21:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry