MIDWEST COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP RESOURCE CENTER

A Virtual Learning Center for Community Building

The Midwest Community Leadership Resource Center (MCLRC) is a unique alliance dedicated to supporting the growth and development of grassroots leadership and organizational capacity, particularly for those who are creating new ways of serving children and families. This multi-organization collaborative has come together to build the capacity of people and organizations planning and delivering comprehensive, integrated services at the neighborhood and local community levels.

The Midwest Community Leadership Resource Center works from a unique vision of community building, the vision that significant system reform is best sustained when supported by professional development efforts that help build and nurture communities' leadership and capacity for change.  To do so, the center

• builds grassroots leadership and organizational capacity in partnership with "front line" community organizations,
• enhances the capacity of systems to work together in new and creative ways,
• enables new ways of doing business,
• strengthens organizational leadership and program capacity, and
• supports community capacity to link and integrate the planning and provision of services with the needs and interests of local communities and school sites,

all with the vision of better serving children and their families.