American Leadership Forum of Oregon

Fellows Leadership program: objective/ mission: join and strengthen diverse leaders across Oregon for the benefit of the common good. We do this by:1) fellows Leadership - hosting two classes of leaders diverse in their race, ethnicity, sector, geography (urban, rural, suburban), sexual orientation, and gender each year. 2) senior fellow engagement continuing to create opportunity for these graduates to connect and engage. Continued on schedule o. alf Oregon graduated two classes of fellows (a total of 39 fellows) from its fellows Leadership program. The classes experience an orientation day, one community building week (st. helens, or) and nine visits to different Oregon communities to learn about the communities. They also dialogued around topics like diversity, equity, resilience, collaborative action, the u-theory, and systems thinking, contemplating the essence of these and how they, as leaders, practice and model them. In these communities, alf Oregon staff engaged at least a dozen graduates of the alf Oregon fellows Leadership program ("senior fellows").

Senior fellows engagement: alf Oregon hosts regular convenings for the senior fellow network (alf Oregon graduates) to continue to meet, connect, and learn from one another about timely issues. This year, we hosted the following events that were inspired by and led by senior fellows: * 8 senior fellow saturdays inviting fellows and senior fellows to learn about an Oregon community similar to fellows programming. * 6 affinity groups that met monthly or quarterly. Continued on schedule o. * 5 dialogue and informational events (one on the indian child welfare act; one on Oregon child literacy; one on the iconography of the American flag called unity, dissent and the American flag; one on uprooting white supremacy in organizational culture; and one on mastering complex power dynamics in group settings).