LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS

Rural Minnesota communities are strengthened and become healthy when broad-based local leadership takes responsibility and deals effectively with the opportunities and challenges that come with change. The Foundation's leadership programs are designed to help current and emerging leaders further develop the skills, knowledge and relationships they need to build and sustain healthy community. Participants in our programs increase their capacity to work with others to:

• Move from individual passion and interest to shared vision and community action.

• Recognize and build on their community's multiple and diverse assets.

• Create sustainable efforts that have long term impact.

The Foundation's ongoing leadership programs are:

• Blandin Community Leadership Program (BCLP) This nationally recognized program brings together teams that are reflective of those various sectors of their community to gain deeper insight into the dynamics of their community, strengthen their skills in working effectively with others and learn "hands on" tools for taking action that builds and sustains healthy community.

• Partners-in-Leadership (PIL) The Partners-in-Leadership Program is intended for communities that are becoming culturally and ethnically diverse. Working with learning teams comprised of Blandin Community Leadership Program alumni and leaders from populations of color or new immigrant populations the Partners program:


• Recognizes and strengthens the leadership capacities within the local population of color and new immigrant populations.


• Increases the ability of BCLP alumni and of leaders within the new populations and populations of color to work effectively in multi-cultural situations.


• Brings the culturally diverse leadership of the community together to work on specific issues and opportunities.

• Blandin Reservation Community Leadership Program The Blandin Reservation Community Leadership Program is an adaption of the Blandin Community Leadership Program. It is designed to help strengthen Minnesota's rural reservation communities by developing cohorts of Native leaders who have increased their capacity to address the particular opportunities and challenges their communities face.