The California Endowment has funded seven grantees to develop and support boundary-crossing health leaders who have the capacity to work collaboratively on community health solutions. The grantees and their programs include:

• Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations run by Asian Pacific American Legal Center
• California Fund for Youth Organizing
• Health Policy Leadership Program run by Central Valley Health Policy Institute
• LeaderSpring
• Health Leadership Program run by Coro Southern California
• Partnership for Immigrants in Leadership and Action
• Senior Action Network and California Alliance for Retired Americans

TCE believes that by establishing a learning community among its staff and the staff of these leadership programs and engaging in a cross-program evaluation, it is possible to strengthen the boundary-crossing capacity of health leadership.
The Leadership Learning Community is facilitating the boundary-crossing leadership evaluation project. The project will be conducted in two phases. Phase I establishes a learning community, identifies shared assumptions, common approaches and divergent strategies among the different programs, and creates a collaborative learning agenda and process for Phase II. Phase II implements a data collection process supported by participants and engages the learning community in an analysis of findings about the impact of current strategies and how to strengthen boundary-crossing leadership outcomes.
For more information contact Claire Reinelt, Steward of Emergent Wisdom.