About UsInnovationsTraing & ConsultingResources/ServicesPress RoomContact Us

“We change the way foundations, youth organizations, and community groups do business. We don’t come in with preset ideas or programs. We nurture small organizations and bring innovative practices to funders and academics. It creates a powerful ripple effect.”

— Wendy Wheeler, President, Innovation Center
Home
Leadership Development
Photo:

The Innovation Center brings a social justice vision to leadership development. We design and promote a collaborative approach that prepares both adults and young people to be leaders so that they can provide leadership for positive change in organizations and civic life. This dynamic new approach, collective leadership, is quickly gaining appreciation throughout the field. We offer practical tools, training, and consulting services to help foundations, organizations, young people and adults develop leadership abilities rooted in their own values, goals, and skills.

Projects

Resources

Link to resources below to explore leadership development.

Tools for Implementation

Training

Research

Listserves (Mailing Lists)

  • innovate Listserve

    INNOVATE is a lively email discussion group where youth and adults can share resources, ideas, information, and opinions about community and youth development practices. Members include activists, youth workers, Innovation Center project participants, community leaders, researchers, funding partners, and other community and youth development innovators.

    To subscribe send a blank message to subscribe-innovate@iclist.org

© 2007 Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
Close

PROJECTS

Kellogg Leadership for Community Change Initiative (KLCC) - W.K. Kellogg Foundation believes that youth are a valuable national resource that is too often overlooked and left out of community decision-making processes. Young people can offer fresh solutions to old problems and, when working cooperatively with adults, can be a powerful force toward shaping a future that benefits them and their elders. To address this challenge, the second session of Kellogg Leadership for Community Change (KLCC) focused around the theme: Valuing and Building Youth-Adult Partnerships to Advance Just Communities.

The purpose of KLCC 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.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation invited five communities from around the country to participate in KLCC Session II. The selected program sites were chosen, in part, because they already demonstrate the capacity to support youth-adult engagement in community development work, a commitment to diversity, and a readiness to mobilize collective will to improve the quality of life in their respective communities.

Since April 2005, the Innovation Center and our partner the Center for Ethical Leadership have had the privilege of working as the coordinating organization for KLCC Session II. In this role, the Innovation Center serves as the advisor for content on youth-adult partnerships, providing technical assistance, training and event design. The Innovation Center is also taking an active role in disseminating practical tools and products incorporating the lessons learned from the five communities involved in KLCC Session II. These resources will be available to the public beginning in fall 2007. Continue checking the Innovation Center web-site for further updates on KLCC product dissemination.

For more information on KLCC and the five communities selected to participate in this initiative, visit the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's web-site.

Close