Development Guild/DDI staff began this learning project by reviewing selected documents from each of the Foundation's four program areas. These documents included concept papers and evaluation reports, as well as documents that were designed for wider public distribution. A list of some of the primary documents we reviewed is attached in Appendix B. While some of the documents were helpful in our thinking about emerging new leadership and what best supports them to develop, there was a feeling on the part of the Leadership CCT Steering Committee that the most significant knowledge and learning had not been documented and that conversations with program directors and grantees would be the best resource for enhancing the Foundation's learning.

We talked with each of the program area representatives on the Leadership CCT and some additional program directors from each of the four program areas who were recommended to us. Through these conversations we learned about initiatives and leadership development strategies that each program area is using to support the emergence of new leadership voices. We also drew on lessons learned from initiatives and programming efforts in the area of Leadership, which had been a programming area before it became "a cross-cutting theme." For a list of program staff we talked to and the initiatives on which we focused our discussions, please see Appendix C. The protocol for our learning dialogues with program staff is attached in Appendix D.

In our conversations with program staff we asked for recommendations of grantees whom they believed would make an important contribution to our learning about how to support the emergence of new leadership voices. Our decisions about who to interview were determined using several criteria. First, we wanted to make sure that we had a cross-section of grantees from each program area. Second, we focused on grantees working with youth and with communities that are economically and politically marginalized. Some of the individuals we talked with worked with projects and organizations that have been deeply supported by the Foundation while others had received only a small, one-time grant. A list of people we interviewed is attached in Appendix E. The protocol for these learning dialogues is attached in Appendix F. In addition to conversations with grantees we also talked with "new voices" - primarily youth who had been recruited by grantees to participate in their programs and activities.

In June 2001 the L-CCT organized a program conversation on the theme of "Emerging New Leadership Voices." Five grantees were invited to participate in discussions about how best to build the leadership capacity of communities to address problems of poverty, unemployment, economic inequality, etc. These grantees came from each of the four primary programming areas and from Battle Creek Programming. A list of participants is attached in Appendix G. The session was videotaped.

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