OCTOBER | 2012

Board Report

Build a network of people supporting

social justice leadership

New members (LLC and LNE)

Member retention

Subscription list (newsletter)

Engage leadership development

stakeholders on key leadership topics

Social media converage

Speaking opportunities

Blog readership

Newsletter readership

Promote and apply cutting edge ideas

and practices

LNE publications

LNE events

LNE webinars

Applied research projects

Increase organizational

capacity

Member donations

Grants

Develop systems to grow

consulting business

Transforming the Leadership Development Field

Communications Strategy

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LLC Website The blog continues to be a dynamic section of the website (31% of unique pageviews were related to

the blog in the January – September timeframe). The webinar series has generated significant traffic

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This is our key channel for keeping members engaged. The best performing month was February, which included an article on lessons learned about leadership, an overview of

our webinar strategy, an article about Bella’s contribution to LLC

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Speaking Engagements

Deborah Meehan consulted on the design of the SFP

Institute and was a featured speaker for a plenary

session: The Story of the SFP Network.

Claire is hosting a session at the AEA conference:

How can evaluation approaches be used to catalyze

better goal-setting, collaboration and communication

among community collaboratives designed to achieve

“needle-moving” impact?

In this session, “Engaging Networks for Impact”, Deborah

will share what the Leadership Learning Community has

been learning through our joint work in the area of

community leadership and collective impact.

Twitter Followers:

3,052 (27% increase

since May 2012)

Twitter is one of the most successful tools we use to share content, attract members, promote events, test ideas and content, and find partners/allies for

our work

* Timeframe: January – September 2012

Twitter

• Applying Social Network Analysis to Online Communications

Networks (Unique Pageviews: 995)

• 2012 Webinar: If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective

Leadership (Unique Pageviews: 528)

• How is network leadership different from organizational leadership

and why is understanding this difference important? (Unique

Pageviews: 419)

• Emergent Leadership (Unique Pageviews: 361)

• A New Leadership Mindset for Scaling Social Change (Unique

Pageviews: 355)

* Timeframe: January – September 2012

Top Blog Content

Mission Work

• Finalized the publication content • Designer is working on

integrating the content into the design template

• LLC team participated in a social media pilot program and developed a launch plan for the publication

• Launch planned for Winter 2012 • The partners listed on the right

agreed to co-brand the publication

Leadership and Networks

• We developed a series of guides to help leadership programs strengthen the impact of their leadership development work

• The publication was funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

• The publication was launched a couple of weeks ago and has already received 450 downloads. We also hosted a webinar to discuss some of the elements of the publication, which attracted 47 participants

Collective Impact & Leadership

• 17 webinars on diverse topics

• Over 1,500 participants

• Top webinars: john powell’s on system thinking (316 participants),

Eugene Eric Kim’s on strategic planning for networks (128 participants),

June Holly’s on network weaving (120 participants), the Interaction

Institute for Social Change’s on collective leadership (119 participants)

• Strengthened our relationship with content experts such as June Holley

and Compass Point

• Conducted follow up surveys after each webinar to get immediate

feedback

• We have also received 30 webinar donations this year, totaling almost

$2,000

This year we are continuing to focus more on conducting webinars than face to face events. The webinars are a cost-effective way to generate a great amount of interest from

our membership and to attract new members

Webinars and Events

• Innovation Labs Funded by W.K.K.F Research Project

Bay Area, Boston and Rural Webinar

• Four Learning Circles and Multi-state Leadership Chautauqua funded by

the Bush Foundation

Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota

• Funders and Evaluators meeting on Community Leadership funded by

the Bush Foundation (October 2012)

Minnesota

• Learning Circles to Discuss the Collective Impact & Leadership

Publication Funded by W.K.K.F Research Project (November2012)

Bay Are, Boston

Learning Events

Operations

Operations: New Hires

• Lauren Rodriguez as a Research Associate

• Lauren comes to LLC with a commitment to transformative change, a

bilingual/bicultural perspective and international experience working

with diverse communities in the United States, Mexico, Chile, and Spain.

Lauren has research training and a Masters in Sociology.

• Miriam Persely as our Administrative Assistant

• Miriam has a strong background in administrative processes gained

both in the public and private sectors. Her work focuses on fostering the

academic growth and success of underprivileged students at all levels.

• Zoe Madden-Wood, Research Associate and Project Manager

• Zoe manages the research and evaluation projects. She is trained in

project management, social network analysis, and has a quantitative

and qualitative research background.