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Problem Statement

Grassroots organizations struggle with building Collective Leadership capacity because of a need to focus on building individual leadership capacity.

 

Collective Leadership Mission & Vision

To build a Collaborative Leadership model whose primary mission is to cultivate partnerships for systemic and sustainable change.  To identify, develop and communicate the mission and vision.

 

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Addressing Barriers to University-Community Collaboration: Organizing by Experts or Organizing the Experts?

University-community partnerships, and COPC programs
in particular, offer important opportunities for traditionally segregated
groups to work together in collaborative relationships. The challenge of
bringing people who possess distinct differences in background and social
power together is a long-standing issue.

 university and community partnerships.pdfhttp://www.haworthpress.com/web/COM © 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1300/J125v12n03_13
The Framework A Tool to Develop Collective Leadership for Community Change

This program was intended to move the focus from developing individual leadership towards creating collective
leadership for the purpose of advancing needed community change.

 Kellog Community Change.pdfKellogg Leadership for Community Change A program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Changing Nature of Leadership (CNL)

Connected leadership is an emerging view of leadership as an inclusive and collective networked
activity occurring throughout organizations. Out of this project grew the Changing Nature of
Leadership (CNL) research. Its focus: to explore the current field of leadership and forecast future
trends. CNL relied on several interdependent streams of research, including academic literature,
surveys, benchmarking and classroom research.

 c4.pdf2005 Changing Nature of Leadership Report; André Martin
Leadership Learning Community A Learning Lab Synthesis

On March 14th, 2008, the Leadership Learning Community (LLC) and the Center for Ethical Leadership partnered to bring together 30 community activists from the Kellogg Fellows for Community Change (KLCC) program and friends, all interested in learning from our own experiences about collective leadership. We gathered in Austin, Texas from all parts of the United States to work together to answer important questions about collective leadership because we believe that together we can learn more than any one of us could learn alone.

 leadership learning.pdfLeadership Learning Community A Learning Lab Synthesis
Nonprofit Leadership Development A Select Annotated Bibliography

The Academy for Educational Development is pleased to present this select annotated bibliography on
nonprofit leadership development. It reflects one component of a larger, year-long research effort generously sponsored by the Atlantic Philanthropies.

The audiences for this bibliography are leaders in philanthropy who wish to make strategic investments in nonprofit leadership development, and those who design, manage, and evaluate leadership development initiatives in the nonprofit sector. It may also be of interest to faculty of nonprofit management and executive education programs.

 nonprofit leadership.pdfAED C E N T E R FOR L E A D E R S H I P D E V E LOPMENT
Community Organizing and Regionalism

In 1996, the Gamaliel Foundation, a national network of more than 40 congregationbased
community organizing projects, adopted a regional approach to community organizing, consolidating local projects into metropolitan organizations and addressing regional dynamics of sprawl and socioeconomic polarization. Through participant observation and interviews at metropolitan and national levels, I examine the effects of regionalism on community organizing. I find that a regional approach may help organizers manage longstanding dilemmas of ideology—how to balance broad appeal with sharp analysis—and scale—how to maintain democratic participation while organizing beyond the local level. I look briefly at the effects of grassroots organizing on regionalism, and find that it may give it a more radical and populist thrust.

 regions.pdfCity & Community 3:4 December 2004 C  American Sociological Association, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005-4701
Constructing the ‘Neighborhood Sphere’: gender and community organizing [1]

This article examines organizing styles and issues in neighborhood activism to illustrate
how activists seek to constitute a neighborhood community. It identiŽes the ways in which community
organizing is gendered in both style and content, often separating ‘women’s’ and ‘men’s’ issues along an artiŽcial public–private divide. This research illustrates, however, how neighborhood activists can use and challenge gendered forms of activism to integrate both public and private into an ideal of a neighborhood community.

 community organizing and gender.pdfGender, Place and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 333–350, 2002
The Decision Case Method: Teaching and Training for Grassroots Community Organizing

Although seldom used for educating community organizers, the decision case method of teaching fits well with grassroots community organizing philosophy. The decision case method can help students and grassroots leaders learn how to critically analyze problems, develop successful solutions, and learn more about themselves and collaborative work. Instructors may use it as a strategy for teaching grassroots community organizing in the social work classroom

 decision case model.pdfJournal of Community Practice, Vol. 14(4) 2006 Available online at http://com.haworthpress.com © 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1300/J125v14n04_06
Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing

In recent years, a new breed of organizing has ignited campaigns for peace and justice. Many of these campaigns utilize innovative approaches to organizing diverse communities against a broad range of local and transnational targets. This new form of community organizing emphasizes elements of play, creativity, joy, peer-based popular education, cultural activism, and a healthy dose of experimentation.  Themes of community building and renewal of democracy run throughout.

 play and community org.pdf 
CHINOOK FUND COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP MODEL

Since its founding in 1987, the Chinook Fund has played a paramount role in fueling social change in Colorado, leading the way with activist-controlled grantmaking. Twenty years later, Chinook has emerged from an organic and grassroots process to develop a new way of operating that reflects its values. In October 2008, the Fund launched a collective leadership model that is grounded in strong community-wide investment.

 CollectiveLeadershipModel.pdf 
Venture Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship in Community Redevelopment

This article provides a case study of Tom Cousins, a social entrepreneur who used his own venture philanthropic investments and leveraged additional resources through extensive publicprivate partnerships for the sole intent of redeveloping an area of disinvestment and poverty. In the process, Cousins also provided the visionary, strategic, and operational leadership often associated with the actions and responsibilities of a social entrepreneur.

 philanthropy and soc entre.pdf 
Research, Best Practices & Lessons Learned
  1. Kellog Collective Leadership Framework
  2. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources
  3. Philippines 3D Participatory Research
  4. Canda (Local Visioning Process)
  5. Australia
  6. Environmental Protection Agency
Objectives
  • Establish an Action Research Team to conduct a Collective Leadership literature review
  • Identify best practice models and valuable lessons learned for successful Collective Leadership
  • Create online portals, workbooks, toolkits and professional development to advance collective leadership
  • Conduct focus groups to look at products/services created to build collective leadership and provide feedback for improvement
  • Pilot a professional development component in 32211 CZ (Lunch & Learn 30-40 minutes; Workshop Model 2 hour to 2 day; or online learning module.
Key Strategies
  • Move From Words to Action
  • Change Management Buyin
  • Public Participation = Cooperation
  • Recycling Local Agendas Into Sustainable Development
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