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LeaderSpring, a Project of the Tides Center

A grant to provide leaders of color with an intensive, locally-based, two-year on-the-job leadership and nonprofit capacity building program.

LeaderSpring, a project of the Tides Center, fosters high performing nonprofits, strengthens the leadership and management skills of executive directors, and promotes both cross-sectoral partnerships and leadership renewal.

Counties Served:

• Bay Area: LeaderSpring currently awards its Fellowships each year within a 25-mile radius in the counties of Alameda, San Francisco, and parts of Contra Costa

Total Award: $200,000

Program Details:
This grant will support LeaderSpring’s core fellowship program for 56 leaders in the Bay Area, with the majority of fellowships awarded to leaders of color. The program features a combination of multi-day retreats, monthly trainings, customized professional coaching, week-long study trips, and peer learning through a cohort model. A hallmark of this program is the opportunity it provides for deep engagement around issues such as power, privilege and difference within a multi-cultural and inter-generational leadership cohort. LeaderSpring graduates benefit from participation in a richly diverse alumni network now comprised of over 100 members.

Selection process:
Participants will be selected through an open and competitive process, using existing selection criteria.

Upcoming Deadlines:
Applications for the Class of 2012 East Bay Fellowship will be accepted in the fall of 2010. Please check the LeaderSpring website for more details.

Participating Fellows:
Fifteen Bay Area leaders were selected for the Fellowship Class of 2011:

1. Masen Davis, Transgender Law Center

2. Allen Fernandez Smith, California School-Age Consortium

3. Gladys Harris, FranDelJA Enrichment Center
4. Arcelia Hurtado, Equal Rights Advocates
5. Jackie Jenks, Central City Hospitality House
6. Andrea Lee, Mujeres Unidas y Activas
7. James Loyce, Black Coalition on AIDS
8. Titi Liu, Asian Law Caucus
9. Asha Mehta, San Francisco Beacon Initiative
10. Teresa Mejia, The Women’s Building
11. Eric Quezada, Dolores Street Community Services
12. Jose Quinonez, Mission Asset Fund
13. Ellie Rossiter, Parents for Public Schools
14. Brenda Storey, Mission Neighborhood Health Center
15. Shannan Wilber, Legal Services for Children

Website: http://www.leaderspring.org

Project Contact:
Cynthia Chavez
Executive Director
cynthia@leaderspring.org
(510) 286-8949