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Leadership Program Alumni Networks: Catalyzing Learning and Action for Equitable Systems Change

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This study examines how thousands of graduates of leadership development and fellowship programs are harnessing alumni wisdom and actions to advance racial equity and racial healing. The research included 23 direct interviews with funders, 25 articles and books reviews, and engaged 85 funders, network consultants and alumni of leadership programs.

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The Leadership Learning Community, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation‘s research partner in this effort, focused on three areas of inquiry:

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1. What are the pros and cons of different ways that funders are organizing leadership program alumni and the extent to which funders drive this work?
2. What is unique about an alumni network approach? What are the benefits, and what would it require?
3. What can be learned from other foundation-sponsored alumni networks about power dynamics, how to center equity, decision-making realms and governance, structures, processes, communications and resources?

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access the study directly at W.K. Kellogg Foundation HERE