Mark Cantu is principal of the only high school in Waelder, Texas, a city where one in every three residents is under the age of 18. Together with several of his colleagues and a couple of students, Cantu recently attended the Seattle Community...
A look at how communty residents are working together to improve their housing stock. Rebuilding Together is the only national nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods, by providing free home repairs to...
The Institute for Democratic Education in America is currently working to build a national network of youth education advocates. In this episode, we'll discuss the goals of IDEA, who it aims to serve and how it hopes to tap the collective power of...
This episode features highlights from the Seattle Community Learning Exchange. Hear from three of the teams: Lummi Cedar Project, University of Texas-Pan American, and Michigan State University as they talk about how they'll take the lessons of the...
This episode talks with Denise Fairchild about the Emerald Cities Collaborative and how they are networking across many sectors to make America and its economy more sustainable.
In this second episode exploring the role collective leadership is playing in the emerging Green Economy, we talk with Deborah Scott, executive director of Georgia StandUp, an alliance of community, labor and faith-based organizations that promote...
As the nation moves toward a green economy, what is the role for collective leadership? In this, the first in a series of episodes focused on this topic, we'll talk with Dwight Langhum, president of Langhum Mitchell Communications, about how a set...
A growing number of community organizations are discovering the benefits social media can bring to their organizing efforts. In this episode, Llano Grande Center program director Juan Ozuna shares the story of a new social media project that...
In the digital era, we often categorize technology users as digital natives, early adopters and immigrants. The same language can be applied to collective leadership practitioners. In this episode, we'll hear from James Radoe Gunter, a collective...
The Lummi Cedar Project has been incorporating the practice of collective leadership into its program for more than five years. In 2010, the organization's leaders decided to expand their youth leadership development project from a summer activity...
This podcast is re-cast of a show that initially aired on Nov. 2, 2010. The episode features two gentlemen who are part of the National Muslim-Christian Initiative, an interfaith coalition seeking to educate and encourage peaceful dialogue among...
Dr. Walter Earl Fluker is a leading scholar in the study of leadership. His work is inspired by the teachings of Howard Thurman and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the history of leadership as practiced within the African American church. In...
Ethnic studies courses first began appearing on the campuses of state universities in the U.S. during the late 1960s, when African American and Chicano students in California began pressuring their campuses to offer such courses. As recently as...
In May, the Center for Ethical Leadership will host the first Community Learning Exchange to be held in its home town Seattle, Washington. The program will center around the four patterns of change outlined in the Collective Leadership Storybook....
Like many teens, Keishla Rivera's days are long and full. Unlike many of her peers, however, she juggles motherhood along with her responsibilities at school and work. In this episode of CL-Exchange OnAir, Keishla talks about how her commitment to...
The Ethnic Student Center at Western Washington College encourages student success by providing a rich array of programs that affirm the diverse cultures of the school's students. In this episode, we talk to Michael Vendiola, the program's...
On February 26, 2011, more than 400 youth gathered on the Howard University campus in Washington, DC, for the first Voices in Action National Youth Summit. Convened by the U.S. Department of Education, the summit invited youth to discuss strategies...
The arts have long played a role in youth programming at Denver's Mi Casa Resource Center for Women. In this episode of CL-Exchange OnAir, we'll talk with youth leader Jacquie Granados about Mi Casa's "Shake It Up" program, which...
Let's say you run a community-based youth organization and you're searching for ways new media might help to engage local youth in developing teen pregnancy prevention programs. What local and national partners might you need to get your program...
