Leading Change Network
The Leading Change Network (LCN) is a U.S.-based NGO that develops leadership and supports organizers around the world through a community of practice, ongoing learning and coaching.[1][2][3][4] Rooted in community organizing, social movement, and civic traditions, the Leading Change Network grew out of the work of Marshall Ganz, his collaborators, their students, and others[5][6].
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| Headquarters | United States |
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Founder | Marshall Ganz |
Executive Director | Mais Irqsusi |
| Website | www.leadingchangenetwork.org |
Marshall Ganz
A year before he was due to graduate, Marshall left Harvard University to volunteer in the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964, aiming to support African American organizers fighting for the right to vote across the U.S. South.[7][8][9]
This was when he embraced organizing as a collective, trained leadership mobilizing communities to act together in solidarity by providing people under adversity with the necessary resources and tools that empower them to author change.[10][9]
After a 28-year ‘leave of absence’ organizing communities, unions and electoral campaigns, Marshall returned to Harvard to complete his undergraduate degree, earn an MPA at the Kennedy School and a PhD in sociology.[11][12][13] While working on his doctorate, he was asked to develop a course on organizing; this is when he was finally presented with the opportunity to merge his life experience with social science, producing a pedagogical approach to organizing.[13][12][11]
This approach of empowering people by teaching them how to translate their values into effective action stirred a lot of interest across many fields, such as education, health care, environmental action and immigration reform.[14][15][16][17][18]
At the same time, Marshall’s students and collaborators went on to adapt the organizing pedagogy in communities around the world like Ahel[19] in Jordan.
The same year, Marshall launched an online course at Harvard called Leadership, Organizing, and Action: Leading Change[20] to share this approach with emerging leaders around the world, an approach that organizers report has changed their views on social change.[21]
The Story of the Leading Change Network
The first seed of the Leading Change Network started in 2009. Then, the idea grew in 2012 from conversations with leaders across the world who identified a need for a global community of practice to enable organizers, educators and researchers to exchange knowledge and engage others. Marshall then founded the Leading Change Network.[5][6]
LCN has grown into a global community of over 30 countries, conducting training in 36 countries and 30 languages.[1][2][3][4]
The public narrative and community organizing frameworks adopted, nurtured and taught by the Leading Change Network have left a significant impact—they have been adapted for different course syllabi in higher education,[22] became the foundation for organizing texts[17], and even inspired academic papers and case studies.[23]
LCN has diverse organizational members and partners[24][25]. They also run professional trainings and coaching programs in community organizing practices.[1][2][3][4]
Projects
- LCN’s Organizing Fellowship for Formally Incarcerated People
- Survivor-Led Advocacy: "A Force of Resistance and Resilience" (With International Justice Mission)
- LCN Community of Practice
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Leading Change Network shares useful resources and hosts great trainings". www.toolsforchange.net. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Network Coordinator, Leading Change Network". blogs.elon.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "News Item - International - Landecker - Tara Dickman - Leading Change Network Workshop Preparations". Humanity in Action. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Leading Change Network". The Commons. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Marshall Ganz | Guests". BillMoyers.com. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Leading Change Network shares useful resources and hosts great trainings". www.toolsforchange.net. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Fels Public Policy in Practice Speaker Series with Elizabeth Vale featuring Marshall Ganz | Fels Institute of Government". www.fels.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ University, Stanford (2022-01-03). "Community organizing scholar Marshall Ganz is 2022 Haas Center Distinguished Visitor". Stanford Report. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Marshall Ganz". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ University, Stanford (2022-01-03). "Community organizing scholar Marshall Ganz is 2022 Haas Center Distinguished Visitor". Stanford Report. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Fels Public Policy in Practice Speaker Series with Elizabeth Vale featuring Marshall Ganz | Fels Institute of Government". www.fels.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 University, Stanford (2022-01-03). "Community organizing scholar Marshall Ganz is 2022 Haas Center Distinguished Visitor". Stanford Report. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Marshall Ganz". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Organizing Civic, Political, and Social Action". Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences (MLD) at the Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ Aiello, Emilia; Sorde-Marti, Teresa (January 2021). "Capturing the Impact of Public Narrative: Methodological Challenges Encountered and Opportunities Opened". International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 20: 160940692110501. doi:10.1177/16094069211050160. ISSN 1609-4069.
- ↑ "Scheibel | Provost's Initiatives | Center for Teaching and Learning | Hamline University". www.hamline.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Brandeburgo, Mariana. "Organizing Playbook for a World where She Decides" (PDF).
- ↑ "Organizing Civic, Political, and Social Action". Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences (MLD) at the Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Ahel | arab.org". 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ Serres, Drew. "10 Groundbreakers Who've Shaped My Views of Social Change".
- ↑ "Scheibel | Provost's Initiatives | Center for Teaching and Learning | Hamline University". www.hamline.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ Aiello, Emilia; Sorde-Marti, Teresa (January 2021). "Capturing the Impact of Public Narrative: Methodological Challenges Encountered and Opportunities Opened". International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 20: 160940692110501. doi:10.1177/16094069211050160. ISSN 1609-4069.
- ↑ "About the Institute for Change Leaders". Institute for Change Leaders. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Ahel | arab.org". 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
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