Leadership for a Changing World

Posted by on October 24, 2003

Leadership for a Changing World Program Invites Nominations of Community Leaders
Deadline: January 6, 2004

A program of the Ford Foundation (<a href="http://www.fordfound.org/">http://www.fordfound.org/</a>), Leadership for a Changing World seeks to recognize, strengthen, and support leaders and to highlight the importance of community leadership in improving people’s lives.

Each year, the program recognizes U.S. leaders and leadership groups not broadly known beyond their immediate community or field. Nominated community leaders may work in fields that include economic development; community development; environment and environmental justice; human rights; citizen participation and government accountability; human development; sexual and reproductive health; education reform; youth development; religion and social change; arts and social action; and access to media, including new technologies.

Awardees receive $100,000 over two years to support their programs or new work that is related to the initiatives for which they are being recognized. In addition, awardees receive $15,000 to explore new learning opportunities that support their work and are asked to participate in shared learning and networking opportunities and contribute to research and public discourse on leadership. Funds will be made available to the awardees’ nonprofit charitable organizations or fiscal agents.

To be eligible for the program, nominees must be working on social justice issues; working in organizations that are not considered grantmaking foundations; U.S. residents working on domestic issues; leaders who are not widely known outside their immediate community or field; involved in the area for which they are being nominated for at least four years; nominated by someone other than a family member, a board member, a staff member, or a consultant for the nominee’s organization; and leaders with clear evidence of ongoing community collaboration.

For complete program information and nomination guidelines, see the program’s Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://leadershipforchange.org/">http://leadershipforchange.org/</a>

For additional RFPs in Community Improvement/Development, visit: <a href="http://www.fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community.jhtml">http://www.fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community.jhtml</a>