Call for Nominations: 2008 LEAD Award

The LEAD (Leadership, Equity, And Diversity) Award celebrates outstanding risk-takers and innovators in the philanthropic community who, through their determination and leadership, have increased funding for programs that promote gender equity and diversity. When selecting award recipients, the committee seeks individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to social change and who actively address gender, race, class, (dis)ability, age, and sexual orientation when making grants. The committee looks for individuals who have succeeded in mobilizing philanthropic resources to support programs that benefit women and girls.
Award Criteria
The criteria for this award are based on the principles that gender and diversity lenses are critical to effective grantmaking and to a social change agenda. In reviewing nominations, members of the award selection committee will look for individuals who have demonstrated:
- creativity and risk-taking in mobilizing philanthropic resources strategically and deliberately on behalf of women and girls
- a willingness to undertake activities that were a “stretch” beyond the nominee’s responsibilities as a grantmaker, trustee, etc.
- strategic and deliberate efforts to integrate gender, race, class, (dis)ability, age, and sexual orientation into their work and the work of their organization as a whole
significant impact, through their work, on grantees, institutional culture, and/or the field of philanthropy
courage and leadership in designing grantmaking programs with the aim of achieving social change
Eligibility
Candidates must be currently active in the field of philanthropy, though they do not have to hold a paid position.
Individuals in family philanthropy, corporate giving programs, and public, private, operating, and community foundations are eligible.
Both women and men are eligible.
Staff and trustees are eligible.
Individuals previously nominated may be nominated again, but new nomination materials must be submitted.
Not eligible are:
Current Women & Philanthropy Advisory Committee members
W.K. Kellogg board members and staff
Council on Foundations board members and staff
Nonprofit development staff and grant writers
For more information, please visit the Women and Philantrophy's Website.