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Nominations are currently open until May 3rd for Minnesota's annual Nonprofit Leadership Awards. The winner of the transformational leader award has the opportunity to serve as a year-long fellow with CIL. Award criteria and nominations information can be found on the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits website.
The March 6 edition of the Engaging U newsletter featured Merrie Benasutti, Associate Director of the Center for Integrative Leadership, discussing Cedar Humphrey Action for Neighborhood Collaborative Engagement (CHANCE). CHANCE was selected by the Office for Public Engagement as the University of Minnesota representative for the 2013 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship
Inspired by Washburn's mission and impact on the community, attendees at the first ever BOLD Awards held in Minnesota chose Washburn as the "Boldest of the Bold" out of five bold winners - including Pentair, The Nerdery, PreciouStatus and PaR Systems Inc..The competition recognized bold strategies improving and transforming the quality of life in Minnesota. To view the 2-min video featuring Washburn's work, click here.
CIL executive director Laura Bloomberg shared some of her thoughts about Governor Dayton's leadership style with Lori Sturdevant in her recent Star Tribune column. Bloomberg commented "Today's best leaders are those most adept at empowering others, not the most charismatic or strong," and" if faced with an either/or proposition, a real leader rejects it," she said. "Rather, the leader keeps searching for a third way". Read full article here.
CIL is featured in this month's edition of Engaging U spotlight.In the interview Excutive Director Laura Bloomberg and Program Manager Leah Lundquist provide highlights of their office's engagement work in the surrounding communities.(click here to read)
CIL is featured in this month's edition of Engaging U spotlight.In the interview Excutive Director Laura Bloomberg and Program Manager Leah Lundquist provide highlights of their office's engagement work in the surrounding communities.(click here to read)
We think this honor is indeed well deserved!
The CIL Student Leadership Team had a unique opportunity to discuss leadership with MinnPost staff writer Gregg Aamot earlier this month. The team gathered to discuss aspects of leadership in the profile of Victor Vieth, the executive director of the National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC). Vieth works with experts from around the country to craft curricula that colleges and universities can use in courses that span disciplines – from nursing to social work to law enforcement. The profile is part of a series of leadership profiles being written by MinnPost. Read the profile here.
The video of CIL Co-Academic Director Jodi Sandfort presenting on "The Power of Integrative Leadership" at the April 2012 TEDxUMN event was recently released. Watch her 9 minute presentation here.
On Juyly 25, 2012 the Minnesota Daily published an article highlighting students' work in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. The City of Minneapolis will use research conducted by three students in a year-long capstone course for master’s students in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs called Cedar-Humphrey Action for Neighborhood Collaborative Engagement. Read article..
At its July meeting the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents voted to approve a new graduate-level academic minor in the field of integrative leadership, designed to train future leaders to bridge institutional, geographical and national boundaries to address social, economic and political challenges. The unanimous vote of support is the result of years of planning and design work undertaken by the CIL Faculty Steering Committee , including representatives from over 20 academic programs across the University. Read more...
MinnPost has assembled a panel of leadership experts and scholars, who are rotating in commenting on each of the examples of leadership profiled in our series, "Driving Change: A Lens on Leadership." Today, Laura Bloomberg of the University of Minnesota comments on aspects of leadership presented in "Reaching sustainability in Minnesota, one city at a time."
On May 8th, Ambassador Luis CdeBaca - director of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons since May 2009 - visited the Twin Cities to deliver the keynote address at "Freedom, Here + Now," an anti-trafficking forum CIL cohosted with the Women's Foundation of Minnesota. On Sunday, May 13th, the Star Tribune Business Section published a feature highlighting CdeBaca's passion for eliminating modern slavery and the work he's doing with businesses. Read the feature here.
Following a recent Star Tribune news story about how University of Minnesota central administration funds were allocated to the Center for Integrative Leadership, the leaders of the University's Education, Management, Public Affairs, and Public Health schools responded by expressing their strong support for the work of CIL. Read their commentary here.
CIL's academic co-director Jodi Sandfort and executive director Laura Bloomberg published the article "InCommons: supporting community based leadership" in the journal Community Development. The article provides practical insights for those interested in increasing the scale and impact of their work with community-based leaders. Read article...
In December Bloomberg joined Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Gloria Steinmen and others in the launch of the Women in Public Service Project. The project is designed to encourage participation of women around the world to contribute to improving governance, expanding civil rights, and combating corruption. Read more..
The CIL Student Leadership Team had a unique opportunity to discuss leadership with MinnPost staff writer, Sharon Schmickle earlier this month. The team gathered with Sharon for a pizza lunch to discuss the leadership profile of Nathan Johnson. Nathan is a community leader from Pine City, MN who organized a Gay Pride picnic five years ago and gradually drew support from a broad area of rural Minnesota where there had been little open acceptance of gays and lesbians. Now the picnics are annual events and hundreds of people support them. The profile is part of a series of leadership profiles being written by MinnPost. Read the profile here.