Community Learning Exchange
Since 2008, the CLE has provided opportunities for place-based community change agents to openly examine their challenges, freely exchange best practices and learn how to use the collective leadership framework to solve local problems. Applying what they’ve learned, CLE participants have helped their communities: secure bonds for needed school improvements; boost African American graduation rates; launch immigrant rights programs; and reduce teen pregnancies among other initiatives.
The CLE evolved out of a program initiated by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2002. Kellogg’s Leadership for Community Change program (KLCC) tested the theory that place-based, collective leadership—across racial, class and age boundaries—could achieve meaningful and sustainable change in 21st century communities. The success of that program led some of Kellogg’s program partners to launch the CLE as a means of exposing more communities to the collective leadership framework and expanding the practitioner network. Initial funding for the CLE was provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
CLE Resources:
- Learning Exchanges Community teams come to 3-day learning exchanges to learn with their peers through a highly interactive approach filled with storytelling, experiential activities, and dialogue.
- Online Network Our interactive web site, www.communitylearningexchange.org, features online practitioner networks and a range of digital learning resources.
Weekly Podcast CLExchange OnAir showcases the impact collective leadership is having in communities across the globe.
The Collective Leadership Storybook: Weaving Strong Communities (2010). This book describes the patterns of working together that encourage collective leadership. Read first hand accounts of communities where people have made these patterns a way of life to advance the common good. 
The Collective Leadership Framework Workbook, (2008), describes the Collective Leadership Framework and how it has been used by communities to create change. 
Leader- ship for 21st Century Change, available for free download, is a 16 page overview of our how our Collective Leadership framework was implemented to create change in communities around the country.