2022 Race Equity Toolkit

2022 Race Equity Toolkit
Authors:
Leadership Learning Community Staff
Leadership Learning Community Network
Date Published:
December 2022
In 2018, LLC engaged our extensive network to generate content for a tool to support practice leaders in establishing comprehensive leadership development programs that contribute to racial equity. This year we completed the compilation of your knowledge and ideas in the Race Equity Toolkit for Leadership Development. Over 60 members of our network contributed their wisdom and resources to this toolkit.
by LLC Staff
Leading Culture and Systems Change: How to Develop Network Leadership and Support Emerging Networks

Leading Culture and Systems Change: How to Develop Network Leadership and Support Emerging Networks
Authors:
Date Published:
October 2017
Our new publication, Leading Culture and Systems Change: How to Develop Network Leadership and Support Emerging Networks, examines why people and organizations working on complex systemic problems (like climate change and structural racism) are using network approaches to make more progress. Network leadership requires a shift away from the dominant thinking that sees leadership as the achievements of exceptional individuals rather than the collective efforts of people working together around commonly held goals and aspirations.
This publication is a guide with very practical ideas about how to make network principles a way of working and leading.
by LLC Staff
Leadership & Large Scale Change

Leadership & Large Scale Change
Authors:
Sally Leiderman
Leadership Learning Community
Deborah Meehan
Claire Reinelt
Date Published:
June 2015
This report was funded to answer the following questions using a series of interviews, research, and findings from a meeting of 45 evaluators and program officers with leadership development expertise, hosted on October 2014 at the Annie E. Casey Foundation: What are the key elements of leadership development approaches that are contributing to measurable progress on significant social problems? What evaluation approaches are being used or developed to successfully measure and document the impact of leadership development that results in large-scale change? What opportunities exist to replicate, spread, adapt, or apply lessons from these models to increase the impact of leadership development programming and investments?
by LLC Staff
Leadership & Networks: New Ways of Developing Leadership in a Highly Connected World

Leadership and Networks: New Ways of Developing Leadership in a Highly Connected World
Authors:
Date Published:
October 2012
As part of the Leadership for a New Era (LNE) initiative, the Leadership Learning Community has partnered with thought leaders in the network development and leadership development fields to develop the cutting-edge report Leadership and Networks: New Ways of Developing Leadership in a Highly Connected World. This publication is funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This report is written for those who run and fund leadership programs that develop and support leadership for social change. It shares many examples of how leaders using network strategies are increasing the impact of social change work, such as the Barr Fellowship Network and MomsRising.org. Our goal is to inspire and help hundreds of leadership programs to question their assumptions about the traditional leadership models and retool their approaches in ways that will enable them to better prepare those in leadership with the mindset and skills they will need to more fully leverage network strategies. Specifically, the report addresses the following questions: Why do network strategies deserve our attention? Why do we need a new leadership mindset? What are the core principles of leading with a network mindset? What leadership development strategies support a network mindset and skills?
by LLC Staff
Leadership & Race: How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice

2010 Leadership & Race: How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice
Authors:
- Terry Keleher, Applied Research Center (ARC).
- Sally Leiderman, Center for Assessment and Policy Development (CAPD).
- Deborah Meehan, Leadership Learning Community (LLC).
- Elissa Perry, Think. Do. Repeat.
- Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates.
- Professor John A. Powell, The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
- Hanh Cao Yu, Ph.D., Social Policy Research Associates (SPR).
- Lori Villarosa, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE), participated as a reviewer.
Date Published:
July 2010
The Leadership and Race publication “How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice” is part of the Leadership for a New Era series. This publication explores the ways in which our current thinking about leadership often contributes to producing and maintaining racialized dynamics and identifies a set of core competencies associated with racial justice leadership. Recommendations are included for helping leadership programs develop and support leadership that furthers racial justice in organizations, communities, and the broader society.
by LLC Staff