 n April 2007, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) approved a grant to LASPAU for $2,667,248 to support a scholarship program for leadership training. The agreement marks the continuation of a decade-long collaboration between the organizations to build local and national leadership capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean in order to address social and economic issues facing the region. The new initiative, the second generation of the Leadership Fellowship Program, will train mid-career leaders from WKKF-supported NGOs and other organizations who have demonstrated the capacity to help strengthen local development processes.
The program will offer 30 grants for study outside the grantee’s home country over a period of three years, including five grants for doctoral-level study, 15 grants for master’s-level study, and ten grants for short-term, non-degree study. Grantees will also participate in two intensive leadership seminars, to be held on the campus of Harvard University, during the course of their programs. The workshops, planned for 2007 and 2008 respectively, will include activities at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Project Adventure, an experiential education center in Beverly, Massachusetts.
The academic programs and workshops will focus on four thematic areas critical to WKKF’s goal of implementing and disseminating models to break the cycle of poverty:
- business social responsibility and income redistribution;
- alliances between the private sector, the government, and the NGO sector to support poverty reduction and youth-centered local development processes;
- poverty reduction strategies; and
- the impact of migration, including development-oriented remittances and hometown associations.
Grantees will be selected by a fellowship committee comprised of LASPAU staff members and individuals from the university and NGO communities who are familiar with development issues and WKKF programmatic efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Grantees who propose to study in English-speaking countries will receive support for English-language training in their home countries, as well as limited support for training in their host countries.
For more information, please contact LASPAU Program Officer James Ito-Adler by email (james_ito-adler@harvard.edu) or by phone (617-495-1044).
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