FW: US, Nominations of Social Justice Leaders Sought for Leadership for a Changing World Program

[Katalin Fabian]

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Katalin Fabian
Lafayette College
Department of Government and Law
Kirby Hall 103
Easton, PA 18042-1780

Tel: (610) 330-5392
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> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:37:05 -0400
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> Subject: US, Nominations of Social Justice Leaders Sought for Leadership for a
> Changing World Program
>
> Civil Society
> Posted: October 28, 2004
> Deadline: January 7, 2005
>
>
> Nominations of Social Justice Leaders Sought for Leadership for
> a Changing World Program
>
>
> A program of the Ford Foundation, Leadership for a Changing
> World (LCW) seeks to recognize, strengthen, and support leaders
> and to highlight the importance of community leadership in
> improving people's lives.
>
> In 2005, LCW will recognize seventeen leaders and/or leadership
> groups not broadly known beyond their immediate community or
> field. Awardees will participate in shared learning and
> networking opportunities; receive financial support and other
> assistance for their work; explore, through collaborative
> research, how leadership is perceived, created, and sustained;
> and contribute to current public discourse on leadership.
>
> 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. LCW also provides awardees with
> a $15,000 Independent Learning Account to explore new learning
> opportunities that will support their work.
>
> Individual leaders or leadership groups may be nominated.
> Nominees must be working on social justice issues, including,
> but not limited to, economic development; community development;
> environment and environmental justice; human rights; citizen
> participation and government accountability; education reform;
> youth development; human development; sexual and reproductive
> health; religion and social change; arts and social action; and
> access to media, including new technologies.
>
> Nominees must be U.S. residents working on domestic issues and
> must be working in organizations that do not focus on
> grantmaking activities. Nominees should be leaders who are not
> widely known outside their immediate community or field. Leaders
> must have been working for at least four years in the area for
> which they are being nominated.
>
> Nominations must be made by someone other than the nominee,
> family member, current board member, staff, or consultant to/of
> the nominee's organization.
>
> See the Leadership for a Changing World Web site For complete
> program information and a nomination brochure.
>
>
> Location: US
> Deadline: Jan 7, 2005
> Website: http://leadershipforchange.org/
>
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