Exploring New Frontiers in Leadership Development
Since 2002, Kellogg Leadership for Community Change (KLCC) has helped communities across the country explore the potential of collective leadership to reshape their futures. In that time, hundreds of residents in 11 communities from around the country have learned to share the mantle of leadership across traditional boundaries such as race, gender, culture and class. Empowered by their new relationships and new ways of functioning as community leaders, KLCC fellows are developing solutions to difficult local problems and charting new paths for their communities in the 21st century.
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KLCC fellows include youth and adults of diverse cultural, economic and social backgrounds. Because the program urges host agencies to include positional and non-positional leaders, participants come into the program from a wide range of experiences. By crossing traditional boundaries and sharing leadership KLCC communities are combining new ideas with local wisdom to bring about positive change.
Together with the KLCC fellows, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation board, staff and their partners are expanding their understanding of how collective leadership works and what it has to offer to communities that are struggling to bring about needed change in today's dynamic social, cultural and economic landscape. We welcome you to our Web site and invite you to learn more about the program, its fellows and what we're learning about collective leadership for community change. We also invite you to share your ideas, questions and insights with us at: info@klccleadership.org.
KLCC Session II launched in June 2005. It has engaged five communities from around the nation around the theme: Valuing and Building Youth-Adult Partnerships to Advance Just Communities. The purpose of Session II is to unleash the potential of youth and adults to engage together in shaping the common good by collectively building new pathways for youth to serve as social change agents. Learn more about Session II.
KLCC Session I, which ran from January 2003 to August 2004, mobilized participants around the theme: Strengthening Public Will and Action Towards Quality Teaching and Learning. Six communities and more than 125 fellows from around the country participated in this trailblazing session. Learn more about Session I.
Ultimately, the Kellogg Foundation's goal is to strengthen communities by helping individuals who are already engaged in community stewardship to recognize themselves as leaders and join with others to develop the shared leadership expertise required to work across a range of backgrounds and perspectives. Learn more about KLCC.