Northwest Area Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation and Blandin Foundation sponsored a workshop this week for grantmakers that provide support for developing leadership capacity in nonprofits, neighborhoods and communities. The workshop was presented by Deborah Meehan and Claire Reinelt of Oakland, California-based Leadership Learning Community (LLC), a national network of leadership funders, practitioners and researchers.
Their workshop was held at the Northwest Area Foundation in St. Paul and focused on the trend toward collective leadership and ways to get there through the use of a tool called “A Framework for Leadership Investment and Evaluation” that focused on individual capacity, organizational capacity, collective capacity and field capacity for individuals, organizations, communities of place, and fields of practice.
The LLC hosts a public wiki that provides valuable information and resources for those interested in this topic. They have also started learning circles on various leadership investment and evaluation-related subjects around the country and are thinking of starting one here.
If you’re interested in participating in a local funders learning circle, please notify Deborah Meehan at LLC.
– Lisa Johnson, MCF’s manager of professional development and e-learning
