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Leadership for Policy Change

In an effort to share our research with our constituents, PolicyLink continues to report—often in conjunction with partners—around equitable strategies that can help all Americans prosper. By “Lifting Up What Works” and spreading the stories of effective change on the ground, we highlight proven efforts to improve communities and support the work needed to replicate those efforts.

Leadership for Policy Change

Draws on interviews with more than 100 leaders from the public sector, private industry, academia, and nonprofit organizations, and provides a scan of 72 leadership development programs as well as an extensive review of current leadership development literature. The report describes the barriers to participation of leaders of color in local and national public policy development and the strategies that can be used to remove the barriers so that leaders can use their expertise and experience to benefit low-income communities of color and the nation as a whole.

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