Community-Based Leadership 

Resources selected for UW-Extension Cooperative Extension faculty and staff developing educational activities to support community leaders across WI.

Wisconsin - Cooperative Extension

Community Leadership Development Resources
Has links to existing community-based leadership programs in Wisconsin, annotated leadership development resources on the web, and Wisconsin Public Radio broadcasts on leadership

Strategic Planning Initiative
Interactive newsletter on organizational development.

Sustainable Community Development
Includes indicators of community sustainability.

Tri-County Leadership Initiative
Green Lake, Marquette, and Waushara leadership development program.

Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program
Program overview, impact and testimonials, events calendar, application information, newsletter, and group participants.

Wisconsin Lake Leaders Institute
Every other year leadership program with nomination forms, past lectures, and lake resources. From UWEX-Cooperative Extension and UW-Stevens Point.

Center for Land Use Education
Offers Plan Commission and Zoning Board workshops. From UWEX-Cooperative Extension and UW-Stevens Point.

Youth Leadership/Youth Community Development Subject Guide
Annotated links under topics: Youth Activism, Youth on Boards, Youth Philanthropy/Grantmakers, Leadership, Mentoring, and more.

Wisconsin - Other

Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute
Has FAQ and community team application forms for "building leadership capacity for health improvement." From UW Medical School and Medical College of Wisconsin.

Coalition Building (Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources)
Links to a facilitators guide, attributes of a good coordinator, and more.

Wisconsin Leadership Development Institute
Designed to prepare future leaders for the Wisconsin Technical College System.

Extension (not WI)

Extension Community Leadership Links (University of Arizona Extension)
Links to State Leadership Sites and National and Regional Leadership Sites.

Community Leadership Development: The EXCEL Program (Univ. of Missouri)
Getting started with community leadership development, and getting better with detailed guides for every step of the process. From University of Missouri-Columbia Extension.

CYFERNET: Skills for Working with Community Groups
Leadership development, conflict management, group facilitation, group communication and more.

Kansas State Extension LEADS Curriculum - Includes curriculum materials on the topics of: personal leadership skills, Interpersonal skills, Group/Organizational leadership skills, Community/Public policy leadership skills. This site also has fact sheets.

Leadership Development - Texas Ag Extension Handbook section on leadership development covering benefits of leaders, identifying leaders of target publics, minority leadership, recruitment, placement, training and recognition of volunteer leaders.

Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow (Penn State Cooperative Extension)
Personal, interpersonal, group/organizational and public/community leadership skills currricula.

Skills: Building Relationships

Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World (Community Tool Box)
Includes "Building Relationships with People from Different Cultures."

Developing Trust and Cooperation Within Your Volunteer Group
2 page fact sheet with get acquainted activities from Kansas State Univ. Extension.

Encouraging Involvment in Community Work (Community Tool Box)
Methods of contacting potential participants, involving key influentials and people most affected by the problem.

Skills: Communication

About IFAS Leadership Development: Leaders Can Communicate
Lesson plan with detailed notes. Includes nonverbal communication quiz and answers.

Group Communication (CYFERNET)
Annotated links to ~14 online extension resources on group communication.

Communication Skills (Face-to-Face)
Questioning, listening, presenting, nonverbal communication tips from the Free Management Library for For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations.

Skills: Conflict & Criticism

Conflict Management (CYFERNET)
Annotated links to ~12 online extension resources on conflict management.

Leadership and Organizational Development - Several full text North Dakota Extension State University Extension Leadership Development Within Groups documents, Including Managing Conflict and Coping with Criticism.

Collaborative Negotiation: A Creative Process for Resolving Turf Issues (Boyd Rossing, UWEX Community Development Specialist and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Short article on using positions and interests, framing and reframing, and negotiation to deal with turf issues.

Building Coalitions: Turf Issues (University of Florida Extension)
8 page pdf on what is turfism, how to avoid it, and how to solve turf battles.

Managing Conflict in Community Growth and Change - "Webography" of annotated web sites compiled by Barbara Lazewski, Steenbock Library, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Skills: Evaluation

Program Development and Evaluation (UWEX CES)
Evaluation instruments and curricula, online training modules, and training opportunities.

Organizational Change (CYFERNET)
Community and non-profit organizational assessment tools and resources annotated links.

Skills: Fund-Raising

CYFERNET: Community Grants, Loans & Funds
Annotated links to resources.

Generating, Managing and Sustaining Financial Resources (Community Tool Box)

Non-Profit Fundraising and Grantwriting
Free Management Library annotated links to resources.

Building Coalitions: Extra Resources for Coalitions
10 page pdf on fundraising, grants, obtaining funds to solve a problem, identifying funding sources, identifying in-kind services, and more from University of Florida Extension.

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory
Check your public library to see if this is available in print or electronic form. Published by Marquette University Raynor Library, it's the "only directory of its kind which covers every active, grantmaking foundation in the state of Wisconsin. 1,184 foundations are profiled, including contact information, total assets, grants paid and areas of interest." The 3 centers below, part of the 200 New York Foundation Center network, should have this as well as other in-library access to additional grant databases and funding information resources.

U.S. Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children & Families, DHHS
"Supports the 3,000+ neighborhood-based Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that address the economic and social needs of the urban and rural poor at the local level by providing grant monies and technical assistance to these organizations."

Skills: Participation

Encouraging Involvement in Community Work (Community Tool Box)
Description, checklists, ready to use overheads. From Univ. of Kansas.

Promoting Interest in Community Issues (Community Tool Box)
Description, checklists, ready to use overheads. From Univ. of Kansas.

Skills: Planning

Developing a Strategic Plan (Community Tool Box)
Description, checklists, ready to use overheads. From Univ. of Kansas.

Strategic Planning Manual (Center for Public Skills Training)
50 page pdf.

 

Skills: Self Awareness, Ethics & Values

Principles of Voluntary Leadership (Rex Campbell Leadership: Getting It Done)
37 principles of leadership.

Personal Leadership Skills (Kansas State Univ. Research & Extension)
Modules on "Leader within you", "Values and ethics," and "Strengths and styles."

Various Needs Assessments to Help Identify Leadership Development Goals
Assessing your leadership style , leadership self-assessment, etc. Links "Assembled by Carter McNamara, PhD | Applies to nonprofits and for-profits unless noted".

Skills: Sustaining

Creating & Maintaining Sustainable Organizations
From University of Missouri"s John Ikerd.

Maintaining Quality and Rewarding Perfomance (Community Tool Box)
Description, checklists, ready to use overheads. From Univ. of Kansas.

Maintaining a Neighborhood Association
From University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.

Skills: Team Building

Building Blocks for Teams (Penn State)
Extensive list of links, including ice breakers to get new teams interacting.

Critical Issue: Building a Committed Team
Overview, goals, action options, and implementation pitfalls by Kent Peterson, UW-Madison in a school leadership context.

Team Building: Building a Productive Team
Nebraska Cooperative Extensions CC352.

Team Building: Organizing a Team
Nebraska Cooperative Extensions CC351.

The Thiagi Group: The Source for Training Games and
Interactive Experiential Strategies Freebies
Team building games.

Skills: Understanding Organizations

Assessing Community Needs and Resources (Community Tool Box)
Conducting focus groups, interviews, concerns surveys, etc.

Organizational Structure: An Overview (Community Tool Box)
Includes why structure's important, and elements of sturcture such as "roles and groups that are common to many community organizations, such as a board of directors, staff members, and action committees.

Structure: Construction of a Coalition
Ohio State University Fact Sheet.

Skills: Multiple

Coalition Building (Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources)
Links to a facilitators guide, attributes of a good coordinator, and more.

Community Leadership Development: The EXCEL Program (Univ. of Missouri)
Getting started with community leadership development, and getting better. From University of Missouri-Columbia Extension.

Community Tool Box Part E: Leadership, Management, and Group Facilitation - Contains chapters on Core functions in leadership, and Group facilitation and problem solving.

CYFERNET: Skills for Working with Community Groups
Leadership development, conflict management, group facilitation, group communication and more.

Free Management Library for For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations
Leadership Development, Leadership (Introduction), Communications (interpersonal), and more with great online resources under each category.

Hartwick Leadership Case System
Source of fee based curricula to teach leadership cases in leadership management courses.

Kansas State Extension LEADS Curriculum - Includes curriculum materials on the topics of: personal leadership skills, Interpersonal skills, Group/Organizational leadership skills, Community/Public policy leadership skills. This site also has fact sheets.

Leadership: Getting it Done by Rex R. Campbell · An online full text book by Rex R. Cambpell, Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Covers principles of voluntary leadership, traits of effective leaders, attributes of good listening, and more.

Leadership and Community Capacity Building: An Inventory and Analysis of Curricula and Tools
A 44 page assessment paper from the NCRCRD in May 2003.

Leadership Development - Texas Ag Extension Handbook section on leadership development covering benefits of leaders, identifying leaders of target publics, minority leadership, recruitment, placement, training and recognition of volunteer leaders.

Associations

Association of Leadership Educators
Professional leadership educators organization.

Community Leadership Association
Most closely connected with the development of community civic leaders. Non-profit organization for U.S. and international community leaders. Formerly the National Association for Community Leadership.

Extension Community Leadership Links (University of Arizona Extension)
Links to State Leadership Sites and National and Regional Leadership Sites.

International Leadership Association
Oriented toward enhancing the field of leadership studies. Provides a network for thow who practice, study and teach leadership.

Leader to Leader Institute
"Mission is to strengthen the leadership of the social sector. Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Institute furthers its mission by providing social sector leaders with the essential leadership wisdom, inspiration and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector nonprofit organizations."

National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs
Professional development association for college student educators.

National Extension Leadership Development (NELD): North Central
For extension staff. 2005-2001 Wisconsin Participants.

Petra Foundation
Honors "unsung individuals making distinctive contributions to the rights, autonomy and dignity of others" with a national search and nomination process.

Leadership Ventures.
"A member supported organization dedicated to advancing boards and leaders of not-for-profit and community based organizations." Resources and Publications include books, tools, case studies and articles. Formerly Trustee Leadership Development.

Leadership Centers

Academy of Leadership (University of Maryland)
"Think tank on leadership and provider of custom-designed leadership programs."

Center for Creative Leadership.
Nonprofit institution with classes, publications and "Leading Effectively" fulltext articles.

Center for Spirituality and Leadership at Marian College
Offers programs and classes in Fond du Lac, WI.

Centre for Exceptional Leadership
Has Leadership Outcomes and Published Articles on Leadership skills.

D.B. Reinhart Ethics in Leadership Institute at Viterbo University
Conferences, lecture series, radio programs and links to web ethics sites by subject.

Fanning Institute (University of Georgia)
Community leadership and adult community leadership, Latino youth leadership and youth leadership in action programs and order info for program materials.

Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, Robert K.
Servant-Leadership "supports people who choose to serve first, and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions." Has servant-leadership materials, conference and speakers bureau.

Heartland Center for Leadership Development
Leadership training programs, conference presenters, 20 Clues to Rural Community Survival, and order info for publications such as Building Local Leadership:
How to Start a Program for Your Town or County.

Institute for Women's Leadership
Offers leadership training and coaching for women.

John Ben Shepperd Public Leadership Institute (Univ. of Texas Permian Basin)
Offers young Texans "Academic Studies, Distinguished Lecture Series, Specialized Seminars, Summer Leadership Institute for Teachers, Student Leadership Forums, Student Leadership Camp, Annual Forum, and the "Outstanding Local Leader" or "Outstanding Texas Leader" Awards. "

LEAD21 - Land Grant and USDA/CSREES leadership development program description, cost ~$8000, and application information.

LeadershipNow
Blog, quotes, and resources to develop your leadership skills.

Move the Mountain Leadership Center
"Provides training, technical assistance, consulting, and coaching to leaders who are focused on ending poverty."

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development: Leadership and Organizational Development
Lists programs by subject with program descriptions, formats, time and contact information.

OSU Leadership Center
Has great publications on leadership, making meetings manageable, time management, and more. Offers training programs and a leadership lending library for a fee.

Team Leadership Center
Offers adventure based team building programs. Based in Sturgeon Bay, WI.

University of Missouri- Columbia Community Leadership Development
Getting Better at Leadership Development has the ADVANCED EXCEL Guides: Creating an Advanced Leadership Development Experience.

Western Extension Leadership Development Program (WELD)
Extensive list of leadership sites and book reviews.

Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management - Contains practical summaries of current research on leadership and change to the academic and management communities through a periodic Wharton Leadership Digest," and Knowledge@Wharton.

Journals and Articles

I-Lead.com (international Leadership Association)
Leadership Journal and Leadership articles from ILA.

JOE: Journal of Extension
Search for community leadership and get free refereed fulltext articles.

John Ben Shepperd Journal of Practical Leadership
New (Mar. 2006) refereed academic journal requesting manuscripts.

Journal of Leadership Education
Free online International, referreed journal from Association of Leadership Educators.

Leader to Leader Institute quarterly journal
Has some full text articles online as well as leadership action guides with sample questions to ask how articles apply to your organization, environment or leadership. May need to get some articles from your library.

Leader Values
Has many articles on Leadership and leadership quotes. More on organizational leadership world than community leadership/civic leadership.

Servant-Leadership Blog
Postings led by Viterbo University's MA in Servant Leadership faculty.

WeLead Online Magazine
Also has leadership tips, leadership book reviews and offers seminars.

BadgerLink . WI resident restricted access to full-text databases. Use your WI public library card number to get in the database. Click Magazines and Journals on EBSCOhost (All Databases), then Academic Search and type DE COMMUNITY leadership in search box. Can click Refine Search and limit to Full Text articles and Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Theory and Research

Characteristics of Admired Leaders
Survey summary of 15,000 worldwide leaders.

Leadership for a Changing World
Has Research Insights & Papers and Leadership and the Public Conversation case studies.

Leadership Learning Community
Has Knowledge and Resources section.. Join the free community to use Surveys and Polls.

Listening and Leadership: A Study on Their Relationship - 46 page report from National Fire Academy.

Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management - Contains practical summaries of current research on leadership and change to the academic and management communities through a periodic Wharton Leadership Digest, and other useful leadership links.

Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership (NCLP)
Description of study of college student leadership development as well as the influence of higher education on the development of leadership capacities from the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs.

BadgerLink . WI resident restricted access to full-text databases. Use your WI public library card number to get in the database. Click Magazines and Journals on EBSCOhost (All Databases), then Academic Search and type DE COMMUNITY leadership in search box. Can click Refine Search and limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.

Acknowledgements and Disclaimer

This webography was initiated by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, CNRED Program Area's, Community Based Leadership Program Development Team.  The team would like to thank Andy Lewis, Community Development Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Extension Cooperative Extension, for originally identifying many of these web sites, and Barbara Lazewski for her expertise in developing this webography as a useful tool.

Disclaimer

By listing a site on this page UW-Madison and UW-Extension doesn't provide any endorsement of the ideas or content of any of the pages.