October 17, 2002
Grass-Roots Organizing Helps to Produce Effective Leaders
To the Editor:
The lead article in the September 19 edition, "Grooming the Best and Brightest," failed to identify one of the most-effective leadership-development strategies being supported by a large number of foundations: community organizing. In hundreds of low-income communities across the United States, thousands of residents are being trained as effective leaders.
At the Neighborhood Funders Group conference in
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