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A New Leadership Mindset for Scaling Social Change External website [view] [more info]

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

A question of leadership: What are the key challenges that for-profit and nonprofit organizations face in evaluating leadership development? External website [view] [more info]

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

Developing a Racial Justice and Leadership Framework to Promote Racial Equity, Address Structural Racism, and Heal Racial and Ethnic Divisions in Communities Microsoft Word file [download] [more info]

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

A Scan of Reproductive Health Resources in California [more info]

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 - 13:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - Posted by bcelnik

A Scan of Leadership Development Efforts in the Greater Washington Region PDF file [download] [more info]

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

Leadership Outcomes Across Programs PDF file [download] [more info]

This piece documents LLC's early attempts to learn more about the leadership outcomes that programs are seeking for individuals, organizations, and communities; and the tools and methods programs are using to evaluate these outcomes. This document reflects and honors some of the important work that the Community completed as of April 2001, and provides a point of departure for the learning thereafter.

Authors: Deborah Meehan

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

04/15/2001 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry

Leadership Matters: An Evaluation of Six Family Planning and Reproductive Health Leadership Programs PDF file [download] [more info]

This evaluation assesses the design, implementation and outcomes of six leadership development initiatives.

Authors: Deborah Meehan, Claire Reinelt, Kim Amman Howard, Cecilia Roddy, Pamela Putney

Subjects: evaluation, health, guides-tools-reports, theory of change, Packard, Gates, reproductive health

07/09/2007 - 15:49 - 0 comments - 2 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry

One Story Many Voices: The Impact of Violence Prevention Programs PDF file [download] [more info]

This report describes the impact of the Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) on the participants and their work, contributions that VPI leadership programs have made to long-term systemic impact on reducing violence against youth, and lessons learned about specific leadership development approaches and emerging models of leadership for the field.

Authors: Deborah Meehan, Claire Reinelt, Kim Amman Howard, Jah'Shams Abdul-Mumin, Georgia Sorenson, Robert L. Williams

Subjects: evaluation, health, guides-tools-reports, violence prevention

07/09/2007 - 15:08 - 0 comments - 2 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry

Accelerating Learning about Leadership Development: A Learning Community Approach PDF file [download] [more info]

In this chapter we discuss our personal experiences with the creation of a leadership development evaluation learning community. We describe the use of collective learning methodologies and share stories about how our work individually and collectively has benefitted.

Authors: Deborah Meehan, Claire Reinelt

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

08/28/2006 - 22:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by admin

Leadership Development: Investing in Individuals PDF file [download] [more info]

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