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Develop courageous leaders
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We plan to continue and expand our work in leadership development. Our focus starts with a stronger alignment of our artist and leadership fellowship programs with our goals, and with an effort to engage all 2,200 Fellows in the Foundation’s broader goals. We have also begun to expand resources and leadership training through intermediaries in North Dakota, South Dakota and Greater Minnesota, including an investment in the leadership training work of the Blandin Foundation.
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Assess and address communities’ leadership and problem-solving capacity
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We are developing a framework to assess the status of a community’s assets and courageous leadership. We will share the tools developed to enable communities to conduct their own assessments.
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Share information, ideas and resources to solve critical issues |
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We are launching project that will provide spaces (physical and virtual) where leaders and citizens can access and share practical knowledge that engages communities and institutions to solve problems. By providing these spaces, this project can help new and emerging leaders find the information, skills, networks and support they need to engage their communities and major institutions around local and state problems and solutions.
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Support courageous leaders efforts to engage entire communities in problem-solving experiments
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As we begin to engage in opportunities with communities, our starting point is to expand and strengthen courageous leadership, or prevent the loss of it. We seek to partner with entire communities, rather than working with a single organization on a programmatic initiative. We believe entire communities must collaborate and be included to achieve long-lasting change. Inclusion is a central and integral part of community problem-solving. Transformative change is needed to tackle both current and future problems, old solutions and systems are no longer sufficient to solve today's problems. |
