Last June, hundreds of visionary leaders from around the world traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Global Leadership Forum. The Forum brought together multi-generational global leaders, along with members of the Solidarity Council on Racial Equity (SCoRE), WKKF Global Fellows Network and Racial Equity 2030 partners. They spent a week immersing themselves in exchanging knowledge, delving into the rich local history and justice movements, and actively seeking opportunities for collaboration. The ripples of the Global Leadership Forum extended far and wide, creating a global “network of networks” to transform systems that perpetuate racial and ethnic inequities. 

To celebrate the upcoming anniversary, we’re debuting the first of more than a dozen brand-new videos from the Forum. In the above clip, GFN members and Forum attendees share insightful perspectives on the importance of multigenerational leadership. Keep an eye out for a full YouTube playlist of videos, including each of the plenary sessions, in the June newsletter.  

 

Keep the conversation going on OpenChange/Slack, and let us know how multigenerational leadership is playing out in your own work. 

Since the GFN launched, WKKF has continually heard from fellows that they are interested in: 

• Exposure to resources that might be helpful in their professional, community and volunteer work; 
• Opportunities to share and learn from each other’s expertise within the network; 
• And the creation of a digital platform that allows Global Fellows to search for knowledge and tools developed by their peers. 

For that reason, we are developing a new resource: It will include books, publications, videos, workshops, TED talks and speeches from fellows designed to inspire, inform and instruct. Contribute to the expansion of our collection by sharing your own resources which will be catalogued in the digital repository and accessible to all GFN members. Below are some examples of submissions from across the network. 

Publication: Living by Borrowing Food in Mozambican cities 

Inês M. Raimundo (KSAL) is associate professor and senior researcher at Eduardo Mondlane University. 

 

In this 2017 Gender and Inequalities article, Raimundo describes the situation in the Mozambican cities of Maputo and Matola, where the urban poor have resorted to food-borrowing as a means of survival. She provides an analysis of the key factors that led to the problem and outlines policies that could address it.  

 

Video: Dialogue and Negotiation Spaces 

Chris Spies (KILP-1) is a conflict transformation practitioner, founder of Dynamic Stability Consultancy and co-founder of the Unyoke Foundation. 

 

In this video, Spies explores the impact of dialogue and inclusive processes in social transformation. The video is part of a series on the role of civil society in the peace process. It was created for the 2015 Cyprus Dialogue Forum in South Africa.  

Handbook: All About Grief 

Lora-Ellen McKinney (KNFP-13) is an award-winning author and accomplished artist. 

 

This engaging handbook examines how grief influences our emotions, relationships, minds, bodies and behaviors. Preteen readers will learn when and why we are most prone to grief, what role grieving serves, and how to heal and find hope. 

  

Book: Commissions y Corridos: Poems 

Hakim Bellamy (CLN-1) is Albuquerque’s poet laureate. 

 

In this book of poetry, Bellamy celebrates Albuquerque and New Mexico and reminds Burqueños that any day when you wake up along the Río Grande is a good day. At the same time, he challenges us to celebrate the power of creativity and community while demanding we confront the failings of our society, namely racism, racial profiling and police brutality. 

Game: Games for Sovereignty 

Cristina Montejo (KPFL-2) is director of training and research at the Xunaan Institute. 

 

Montejo designed and created this catalogue of games to help construct a more egalitarian, peaceful and violence-free world. Through memory games, lotteries, snakes and ladders, and cards for introspection with kindness, the catalogue addresses topics such as equality, rights and violence prevention. These games can be customized and adapted to a specific organization or project.  

  

Resource: Participatory Community Social Diagnosis 

Marco Sosa (KILP-02) is director of the Health Knowledge Transfer and Consulting Unit at Professional Corporate Consultants CPC in Colombia. 

 

Sosa provides a detailed guide on how to design and implement a participatory community social diagnosis. This involves community members and organizations working together to collect and share information that allows them to understand the population, its priorities and the available resources. This marks the beginning of a collaborative process, where decisions and responsibilities are shared.  

 

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• Mapping the Next Decade: Explore a new collaborative, strategic planning tool — “Lighting Up the Future for Children: Balancing urgent needs and future opportunities.” Published by the Institute for the Future with support from WKKF, this strategic foresight tool is designed to help communities, leaders, nonprofits and funders envision and create a bright, child-centric future together. The map highlights key future forces which could be transformational for children and ten forecasts for the year 2035. Available in English and Spanish. 
  
  
• 2023 Annual Snapshot: WKKF designated 2023 as a year of deep listening – to grantees, partners, vendors, community leaders and others who sit at a critical vantage point of what’s happening now and what’s ahead. The annual snapshot tells stories of impact, highlighting how grantees and fellows responded to tumultuous shifts, how they tapped into support from WKKF and how they continue to be a source of inspiration and knowledge for the Foundation.  

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• A Global Conversation on Racial Discrimination: On April 17, WKKF GFN hosted a virtual discussion following the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21). Fellows from across the network gathered for global reflections on experiences involving building trust, truth telling, healing and transformation for individual and collective liberation.  

Resources 

 

Racial Equity and Evaluation Toolkit: WKKF, together with Community Science, launched a toolkit for change agents who are looking to get concrete about how to advance racial equity through evaluation. It includes insightful blogs, tip sheets, presentations and more resources to help you in your work. 

 

Strategic Communications in an Election Year: Election years present valuable opportunities for organizations to shape discussions and champion policies and practices that enhance the well-being of children and families. This year, in the U.S. and around the globe, major elections are underway. Like many leaders, you may be wondering how to effectively inform policy discussions and draw attention to your cause.  

 

Join WKKF and our partners, Fenton Communications and the Alliance for Justice, at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 9, for a webinar on the dos and don’t of advocacy communication during an election year.  

WKKF Fellows Reunite: WKKF fellows develop deep connections that endure for decades. In fact, members of the Kellogg National Leadership Program (KFNP), which ended in 2002, still meet today! KNFP Group 8 started meeting a year after their fellowship concluded in 1990 and has continued to gather each year. KNFP Group 5 organizes regular conference calls, and in 2023, got together in San Diego for a meaningful event. The occasion included a retrospective slide show, memorial to honor those who had passed, roundtable discussion and a session dedicated to sharing life lessons learned through their fellowship.  

 

If your WKKF fellowship group hosts reunions, we'd love to hear about it. 

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