Leadership and management tools:
Management Assistance Group (MAG), located in Washington D.C., has documented the unique set of leadership skills that network leaders need to build robust and powerful social movements in the United States. If you are interested in ways to lead more effective coalitions, networks and collaboratives please look at these case studies.
The Social Transformation Project, founded by the veteran leadership expert Robert Gass offers a wide range of of practical tools that address all aspects of deep leadership change with individuals, organizations and communities. Robert generously shared a lifetime of work on this website that can be downloaded after registering contact information.
So Just Lead was created to offer transformative leadership practices to low-income, people of color led, community organizing groups. I am especially fond of their article on the Power of Transformative Practice.
Claros Group has posted a series of practical tools that cover a range of topics including courageous conversations,delegation, time management and running effective meetings.
Theory U, founded by Otto Scharmer at MIT, developed a framework for change that I have found to be immensely helpful in my work. He also offers a series of tools that can utilized for planning visioning and big picture thinking meetings with groups. Otto's work encourages non-profit organizations to consider the use of tools long used in the design sector including prototyping, site visits and visualization.
Higher education in prison resources:
The Prison Studies Project at Harvard collects and aggregates information on college programs that serve incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students around the country.
The Vera Institute coordinates a five year initiative to expand partnerships between colleges and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in several states. An extensive evaluation of this project will also be conducted by the Rand Corporation.
The Education from the Inside Out Coalition is a national campaign to re-instate Pell Grants for Inmates. After the termination of Pell Grants in 1994, virtually all college programs were shut down overnight.
Management Assistance Group (MAG), located in Washington D.C., has documented the unique set of leadership skills that network leaders need to build robust and powerful social movements in the United States. If you are interested in ways to lead more effective coalitions, networks and collaboratives please look at these case studies.
The Social Transformation Project, founded by the veteran leadership expert Robert Gass offers a wide range of of practical tools that address all aspects of deep leadership change with individuals, organizations and communities. Robert generously shared a lifetime of work on this website that can be downloaded after registering contact information.
So Just Lead was created to offer transformative leadership practices to low-income, people of color led, community organizing groups. I am especially fond of their article on the Power of Transformative Practice.
Claros Group has posted a series of practical tools that cover a range of topics including courageous conversations,delegation, time management and running effective meetings.
Theory U, founded by Otto Scharmer at MIT, developed a framework for change that I have found to be immensely helpful in my work. He also offers a series of tools that can utilized for planning visioning and big picture thinking meetings with groups. Otto's work encourages non-profit organizations to consider the use of tools long used in the design sector including prototyping, site visits and visualization.
Higher education in prison resources:
The Prison Studies Project at Harvard collects and aggregates information on college programs that serve incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students around the country.
The Vera Institute coordinates a five year initiative to expand partnerships between colleges and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in several states. An extensive evaluation of this project will also be conducted by the Rand Corporation.
The Education from the Inside Out Coalition is a national campaign to re-instate Pell Grants for Inmates. After the termination of Pell Grants in 1994, virtually all college programs were shut down overnight.