Partnership announced between The Clore Social Leadership Programme and The Work Foundation
The Clore Social Leadership Programme is pleased to announce that it is working in partnership with The Work Foundation to evaluate the development, progress and outcomes of the new leadership development programme for aspiring leaders in the third sector.
The Work Foundation team will use an evaluation approach that draws on their substantial leadership research and consulting experience, as well as on their wider organisational resources to provide additional context. They will support the Clore Social Leadership team to integrate evaluation into the Programme to enable it to become a core skill learned by Fellows, at the same time as helping to improve the design and delivery of the Programme itself. The evaluation will also seek to broaden the third sector’s understanding of leadership development and appropriate evaluation approaches which can be used to support growth for the future.
The evaluation process will include an analysis of the range of people who applied for the Fellowship in each year, alongside a robust review of existing opportunities for leadership development in the third sector. This will provide baseline data against which progress can be measured.
Candidates are now being interviewed to select the first cohort of Clore Social Leadership Fellows from applicants who applied in June and will be appointed next month. The Fellowship will formally start in January 2010. A second cohort will be recruited next year to start in 2011.
Five Fellowships, co-funded with other organisations, are dedicated to specific areas: The NESTA Fellowship for a Fellow interested in developing practical solutions to gaps in the supply and demand for risk capital; The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement for a Fellow working within children’s or youth services in a role in direct contact with the NHS; The Office of the Third Sector Fellowship for a Fellow from BAME backgrounds; The RNIB Fellowship for a registered blind or partially sighted Fellow; The Youth Sport Trust Fellowship for a Fellow working in or with the School Sport Partnership network.
The Clore Duffield Foundation is contributing £1.5 million to the new Programme over its first three years. In addition to this support, the Programme is supported by funders including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the funders of the five specialist Fellowships listed above.
Dame Mary Marsh, Director of the Programme, said: “The Clore Social Leadership Programme will equip the next generation of third sector leaders with the skills and confidence to handle risk, manage complexity and make the most of opportunities to innovate in the recession and beyond. We need diverse leaders with courage, passion and focus to meet the growing needs of civil society.
“We are delighted to be working with our partner The Work Foundation. They bring a wide perspective and understanding of leadership across the private, public and third sectors. It is vital that the Programme is robustly evaluated so that improvements can be made on an ongoing basis, and so that findings can be shared as widely as possible with others who have an interest in the future leadership of organisations with a social purpose across the UK and beyond.”
Will Hutton, of The Work Foundation said, “We are very happy to be working on this innovative project with The Clore Social Leadership Programme. Our shared values and combined strengths will help to create better leadership in the third sector – about which we are passionate. We will integrate the pioneering evaluation techniques we have developed together to improve the programme, as well as ensure that all Fellows develop these core skills themselves. This will help them maximise the impact of their organisations in the challenging times that may lie ahead.”
Further background can be found at: www.cloresocialleadership.org.uk or by calling 020 7033 2540
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Notes to Editors:
1. The Clore Foundation was founded in 1964 by the late Sir Charles Clore, one of Britain’s most successful post-war businessmen and one of the most generous philanthropists of his day. After Sir Charles’ death in 1979, his daughter, Vivien Duffield, assumed the Chairmanship of the Foundation and created her own Foundation in 1987 with the aim of continuing and consolidating her family’s history of philanthropy. The two Foundations were merged in 2000 to become the Clore Duffield Foundation (CDF). The Foundation is chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield DBE and concentrates its support on arts education, museum and gallery education, leadership training and health and social care.
2. The Clore Social Leadership Programme is modelled on the influential Clore Leadership Programme for the cultural sector, which was founded in 2004, with the aim of helping to train and develop a new generation of leaders in the arts in the UK. Fellows have been selected annually from the cultural sector and beyond, to undertake an individually tailored programme of tuition, research, mentoring and secondment designed to develop their leadership skills, knowledge and experience.
3. Dame Mary Marsh is founding Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme. Before joining the Clore Social Leadership Programme in October 2008, she was Chief Executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) for eight years. Prior to this, her career was in education. She was headteacher of two large comprehensive schools in the 1990s, the second being Holland Park School in inner London. Dame Mary was appointed a non-executive Director of HSBC Bank plc with effect from 1 January 2009. She was also appointed by the Government in January as the interim Chair of Skills-Third Sector (the new third sector skills body). She has been a member of the National Council of the Learning and Skills Council since 2005 and she is a Trustee of Young Enterprise. She is co-chair of GRIT, the alumni voluntary sector interest group, at London Business School.
4. The Work Foundation is the leading independent authority on work and its future. It aims to improve the quality of working life and the effectiveness of organisations by equipping leaders, policymakers and opinion-formers with evidence, advice, new thinking and networks.