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Leadership Learning Community - Making Space For Relationship Building

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Leadership Learning Community was created in 2000, with the goal of deepening network engagement of local field leaders through shared tools, resources, curriculum approaches, practices and challenges. We held circles for and listened to local community leaders within the social good sector.
By 2009, we saw clearly the intersection of race and leadership. Over the years, we have made it a focal point of our work and developed and promoted tools and resources to help leadership programs center race and equity.
In 2019, we became a BIPOC-led organization, and began our work in liberatory leadership and liberatory practices. This allowed us to venture beyond the edges of race equity, and begin our analysis and strategy with our values, rather than the disparities created by systemic oppression.
Since then, we have strived to do just work in just ways, while continuing to hold space for collective leadership to advance equity and liberation.

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Who We Are - Leadership Learning Community

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Leadership Learning Community was created in 2000, with the goal of deepening network engagement of local field leaders through shared tools, resources, curriculum approaches, practices and challenges. We held circles for and listened to local community leaders within the social good sector. By 2009, we saw clearly the intersection of race and leadership.

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Funders Briefing What is liberatoy Leadership

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Reflection questions: What feels possible from where you sit? Share with us your practices. Ask us and each other your questions. What’s next for this conversation and this work?

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Reflection questions: What feels possible from where you sit? Share with us your practices. Ask us and each other your questions. What’s next for this conversation and this work?

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Liberatory Leadership working definitions slides

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Liberatory Leadership working definitions slides

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Liberatory leadership theory and practice invite us to lead from a place of love, wholeness, and interdependence. By valuing celebration over competition, we are able to access possibilities that can only emerge in community. The practice of liberatory leadership flourishes when we create space for rest, when we address power differentials in service of justice, and when we center those at the margins within our organizations and our work.

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Liberatory Leadership Defined 2023 Funders Briefing

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Over the past few months, I've been taking regular time in the middle of the week for "recess" with my friend, Yi Zhang. We basically hop on a Zoom, make art, and share. We mainly do it because it's fun, but there's a deeper meditation underlying these sessions.

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In this episode, we examine The Resilience Initiative, a model of foundation-initiated capacity-building work on behalf of grantee organizations that has sought to help progressive nonprofits tackle the mounting political, economic, and health crises that have impacted organizations in recent years.

The Resilience Initiative has developed a highly-responsive approach that is increasingly focused on the well-being of nonprofit people and organizations. You'll hear from the two top-notch consultants who have consecutively led this effort - Janet Nami McIntyre and her predecessor Paula Morris.

This episode explores practices of talent-investing that relate to responsiveness:

Ask and Respond.

Go All-In.

Offer Custom Solutions.

To learn about the Eight Practices of Talent-Investing, listen to Episode One of this season. And we invite you to learn from all the amazing past guests of Fund the People - A Podcast with Rusty Stahl. Resources from this Episode: Janet Nami McIntyre Bio:
Janet Nami McIntyre joined the Resilience Initiative in September 2022 as the first full time Director. She brings over 25 years experience in the nonprofit sector as a leader, an experienced consultant and coach, and including having served as a capacity coach at the LeadersTrust, a sister organization.

For the past 10 years Janet was VP of Programs for Executive Service Corps of Southern California, where she curated leadership learning, cohort programs, and coaching offerings for nonprofit staff and board members. Prior to that, she held various positions in arts and cultural organizations in Los Angeles. Janet was the Executive Director of the Hollywood Arts Council, Director of Development and Community Engagement at Classical KUSC Public Radio, and in multiple development roles at the LA Phil and Hollywood Bowl.

Janet is the daughter of immigrants from Japan and is a second-generation Japanese American, born and raised in Los Angeles where she currently lives and works. She is an active member of her community, and volunteers as a board member, alumna mentor, community gardener, and political campaigner. Her activism, volunteerism, and meaningful work with nonprofits helps her maintain faith in people and a hopeful outlook on the world.
Paula Morris Bio:
Paula Morris has worked to strengthen social change organizations over four decades, most recently as the first Director of the Resilience Initiative (RI), a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which launched in 2017 with funding support from the Packard Foundation. Paula led the design and growth of the RI until September 2023, and it now provides a range of coaching, trainings, cohort learning and other supports for over 500 organizations.

Paula has been a consultant on the Packard Foundation's Organizational Effectiveness Program team since November 2019. She was also the first Program Director for the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund's Flexible Leadership Awards (FLA) Program, forerunner of the LeadersTrust. She worked with the FLA from its inception in 2005 until 2015 and led design and implementation of coaching, consulting, training, and peer learning for over 70 social justice organizations.

As Program Director and Interim Executive Director at the Horizons Foundation, the nation's first LGBT Community Foundation, she led the Foundation's capacity building and community-led grantmaking programs and donor advised funds. In the mid-1990s, Paula was Education Director and then Executive Director for IDEX, now Thousand Currents, and is a past Co-Chair of the Board. Paula has also worked as a consultant to scores of advocacy organizations and foundation initiatives. In the 1980s, she worked for seven years in Indonesia and Zimbabwe, where she was Field Director for VSO.

Paula was born and raised in Birmingham, UK, in a family of teachers and union leaders. She and her wife, Cory, have lived in the Bay Area for more than 30 years. She has been a volunteer, donor and advocate for many LGBT and other justice organizations, is an avid gardener, golfer, and traveler, and enthusiastic godparent and auntie to many young people. She prides herself on being a baby whisperer.
Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts. View all previous episodes of the podcast.

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Doubling-Down on Wellness in Capacity-Building - with Janet Nami McIntyre and Paula Morris, The Resilience Initiative - Fund the People

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READ THE TRANSCRIPT In this episode, we examine The Resilience Initiative, a model of foundation-initiated capacity-building work on behalf of grantee organizations that has sought to help progressive nonprofits tackle the mounting political, economic, and health crises that have impacted organizations in recent years.

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Ericka Stallings - Leadership Learning Community | ericka@leadershiplearning.org

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We are paying a lot of attention to lineage. I think of lineage as inoculation and an antidote to erasure.

On liberatory recruitment: Acknowledge this is an interview, but we want it to feel like a conversation.

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Like this padlet? How about our newsletter? We have Alex to thank for them and so much more.

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Susan Choi - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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"What would it take to support people like you want them to succeed."

The intentionality behind having laughter as an objective as part of how we are for ourselves in this world.

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Trish Tchume - Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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LLC - you are so good at calling us back to the best ways we can be together.  Thank you. <3

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One new-ish thing that LeadersTrust is trying is offering coaching for candidates before the interviews. This is something that we tried to offer for our new hires...

During the hiring and interview process, we are trying to unlearn some practices and create new ones. Some new practices we have incorporated are paying for candidate's time/project and having an elevator walk - someone from the team stays behind to answer any questions the candidate may have after the interview.

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Iman Mills Gordon - Leadership Learning Community

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Philanthropic playspaces? This is the brainchild of Iman, our Director of Liberatory Programs and a key member of the Liberatory Leadership Partnership.

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Practicing play.. it's something so inherent.. a birthright, but it's getting lost. It's something we need to bring back. We need to keep practicing it and keep it as part of our lives. It's a personal journey and for me it's about getting out of my head and judgment. I've been playing with Improv and I'm having fun.
It takes practice in how to bring play back into my life, in the workplace and with my colleagues.

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On naming fun as an objective, making tools toys and workspaces into playspaces: I love the idea of changing our terms. I think of this as a subtle thing that can provide change

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I am reminded of someone saying at a very serious organizational moment that they wanted to get us to fun and how far away that sounded at the time but how rewarding it was to work towards.

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Nikki Dinh - Leadership Learning Community | nikki@leadershiplearning.org

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Liberation is not ours (LLC's) to own. Everybody's path towards liberation is different and will have different hurdles and ways forward. Like a delta, we'll reach the ocean through many many smaller streams. We share our learnings through relationships and conversations like we are doing today.

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Kyle Shimamoto - Leadership Learning Community

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Just work in just ways? Kyle is our Director of Liberatory Operations and is the brains behind making our operations and internal policies reflect our values and external strategies.

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Sadia Hassan - Leadership Learning Community

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One of our newest colleagues. Find Sadia's blogs at leadershiplearning.org and networkweaver.com

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Janet Nami McIntyre - Resilience Initiative

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Play = games = rules = competition, but playfulness can also be really expansive, and being able to reinforce that to people.

During one of my interviews, I received a round of appreciation for things from my application. I left the interview feeling more connected.

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Kate Seely - Northern California Grantmakers

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LOVED the sense of possibility here!

This is an invitation for self-reflection, what is it that is holding people back from creativity and play?