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Led by Stanford's world-class faculty, this program presents ideas and tools that will help private, corporate, and community operating foundations think more strategically about their grantmaking. It also provides an opportunity to learn new frameworks to deal with key challenges faced by today's foundation leaders.

Highlighted Sessions

The Leader as Organizational Architect
Great leaders can be thought of as organizational architects -- people who focus on how the work setting is "configured" and manage with that in mind. This session examines some personal characteristics and then proposes a completely different way to think about leadership.

The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Organizations Turn Knowledge into Action
This session confronts the paradox of organizations that know what to do, but frequently fail to do it. Participants learn how to diagnose major barriers and outline a new approach to changing behavior.

Other Selected Sessions

• Strategy and Performance
• Power, Asymmetrical Relationships, and Trust
• The Leader as Vision Builder
• Staying Connected to the Community
• Management and the Board of Trustees
• Building System-Level Capacity
• Social Change and Strategic Alliances
• The Foundations of Effective Evaluation

Multimedia Toolkit

Participants will receive a powerful toolkit to enhance their learning and apply strategic management frameworks to the challenges they, and the organization they support, face each day. It includes three CD-ROMs containing:

• Videos of classroom presentations
• Synchronized slides to accompany lectures
• Frequently asked questions with faculty responses
• Case studies on related topics
• A self-paced workbook

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Participation comes with a one-year subscription to the critically acclaimed Stanford Social Innovation Review. This quarterly journal presents the best ideas in nonprofit management, philanthropy and corporate citizenship and shares substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better.

Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.