10. Leadership
Projects
Program
Leadership Community
Program Strategic
Alumni Planning
11. Leadership Leadership
Program
Development
• Expands the pool of engaged citizens
• Provides an avenue to get involved
• Generates the capacity for inclusive planning
• Strengthens organizations and networks
• Brings ideas and knowledge
12. Projects
Projects
• Engage passion
• Create results
• Increase the sense of possibility
• Make it harder to say “you can’t do anything
here”
• Implement elements of existing plans
• Feed into future planning
13. Leadership Program Alumni
• Capitalize on the investment
• Build an army
• Create a venue
• Capacity for implementation and planning
Leadership
Program
Alumni
14. Strategic Planning
• Creates linkages between sectors
• Places projects in context
• Builds sense of collective action
• Focus on shared vision
Community
Strategic
Planning
15. The Triangle, the Circle, the Square
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Community
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Program
Organization
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Program Strategic
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Human Resource Development Alumni
17. Best Practices: Leadership
Development
• Local leadership program
• New curriculum builds on more than two
decades of experience
• Long term impact from ongoing program
• Low cost makes it sustainable
18. Best Practices: Training for individuals,
organizations and communities
• Brushy Fork Annual Institute
• Focus on skills that build capacity
• Tracks include leadership development,
organization development and community
development
19. Tracks
• Leadership development
• Communication
• Non-profit management
• Financial management for non-profits
• Executive problem solving
• Grant writing (two levels)
• Fundraising beyond grants
• Marketing your programs
• Web presence and social media
• Managing federal grants
• Appalachia’s economic future
• Community Foundations
• Vaughn Grisham’s creating extraordinary communities
• Train the trainer for Brushy Fork’s local leadership curriculum
21. Best Practice:
Combining training and funding
• ARC Flex-E-Grant program
• Grants of up to $10,000 for economically
distressed communities in East Kentucky
• Combines training at the Annual Institute with
funding from ARC