Thank you for participating in this important survey. We believe you will find the questions engaging.

Your identity and responses are confidential. Thanks to our partnership with the Association of Leadership Programs (ALP) and the cooperation of your leadership program's staff, we have not had access to your name or any identifiable information.

By sharing your perspectives and experiences you are providing an important service for leaders, like yourself, across the country and in your community. In thanks for your participation, and the participation of your leadership program, we will disseminate the insights from the survey through your program.

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Local CLP Information

If you completed more than one program, please click 'Add another response' at the end of this section to record each completed program.

Please select the program(s) you completed.
Begin typing the name of your program and organization to see if it appears in the list.
If you don't see it, please type it in manually.

If you are a professional staff, choose the program you work with.

Does the program have a "parent" organization, such as a Chamber of Commerce, Foundation, home university, fiscal sponsor, etc.?
If yes, please write in the parent program name. If no, leave blank.

E.g. Greater Omaha Center, Cleveland Leadership Center, Maine Development Foundation, etc.

To the best of your recollection, in what year(s) did you complete this program?

Other (year completed program)

Now, please think about the leadership program you completed. For your local area, how valuable has it been for your community to have the leadership program you completed? Please use a scale of ZERO to SEVEN, where zero means the program provided no value and seven is it was essential.

National Leadership Network

How interested would you, personally, be in creating connections with other graduates or alumni of similar leadership programs from other areas across the United States?

Views of Civic Leadership

Civic leaders may have varying assumptions and approaches in their community. For each of the following statements, please rate how much you agree or disagree.

	Completely agree with this statement	Mostly agree with this statement	Mostly disagree with this statement	Completely disagree with this statement
Leaders from different backgrounds who have relationships of trust and respect are in the best position to discuss and reach agreement, as much as it is possible, on the important problems in our communities, and their solutions.
There are problems in our community that need to be addressed.
Collaboration among leaders increases the sustainability of change.
Bringing together a diverse group of community members increases the ability to implement sustainable change.
Shared experiences among people from different backgrounds allow for the formation of trusting and respectful relationships.
Frank discussions among leaders allow them to work towards meaningful change.
Shared best practices and shared learning enable our community to more quickly understand the best approaches to change.
Many members of a community must be involved over time to drive long-term positive impact.
Members of the community will try different ideas; some ideas will provide benefits and others may fall short.
A larger community of members leads to greater collective action.
Our goal is to find and implement changes that will have a long-term positive impact.
There is no specific source of ideas for changes.

Civic leaders such as yourself may weigh things as having varied worth or importance. For each of the following, please rate how important each of the following is to you.

	Very important	Somewhat important	A little important	Not important at all
Create new relationships with leaders from different backgrounds
Confront complex problems in our community
Engage in solving our problems
Share your experiences and best practices
Work with the broader population on our community's challenges.
Engage with people with different backgrounds.
Engage with people with different opinions.
Give opportunities to members of the community to step forward
Value contributions more than formal credentials
Finding non-partisan solutions.

"I have an obligation to publicly demonstrate how local leaders from different backgrounds can work together in a civil fashion to improve our communities."

Do you...

Civity

Would you be interested in participating in a half-day training to build social trust in your community or in your workplace?

Would you be interested in one-on-one coaching to build social trust in your community or workplace?

Big Steps

What would you put forward as a "Big Step" that could be accomplished in our organizations, workplaces or communities to address polarization, civic health, democracy, civic engagement and/or systemic societal challenges?

Can you provide examples of the need...

National Leadership Network Participation

Suppose you were asked to CONSIDER PARTICIPATING in a national network of people, like yourself, who have completed a local leadership program. For each of the following, how important would each be in deciding whether to CONSIDER PARTICIPATING?

	Extremely important in deciding whether to consider participating	Very important	Moderately important	Slightly important	Low importance	Not important at all in deciding whether to consider participating
Is a start-up
Is a an established group
Has been pilot-tested
Focused on networking
Focused on sharing ideas and networking
Focused on sharing ideas and networking, and social change
Honors strict confidentiality practices
Elevates ideas from the local level to the national level
Helps implement proven solutions at the local level
Is funded by a prominent national foundation
Is funded by national corporate foundations
Relies solely on alumni like yourself to provide expertise
Brings in expertise from prominent experts
Demonstrates conducting controversial discussions with civility
Willing to take controversial positions
Will use its large and elite community to take public positions when there is near unanimity
Run by a professional staff
Run by volunteers drawn from alumni of leadership groups
Has a partnership with a major university
Has a partnership with a prominent national non-partisan foundation
Non-partisan
Actively recruits diverse graduates of leadership programs
Makes sense to me
Would be valuable to my career
Would be valuable to my work in the community
Would be valuable to my community
Challenges me
Introduces me to new ways of thinking
Connects me to people with similar lines of thinking
Is endorsed by the Board of my local leadership program
Is endorsed by the senior executive from my local leadership program
Has a focus on solving something
Shares my values
Offers a comfortable place to discuss uncomfortable topics
Offers a supportive environment with peers outside of my community
Offers access to resources I need to grow
Inspires me
Allows me to set my own time commitment
Shares measurements of fulfilling our mission
Cares about communities like mine
Is a place I will find a confidante
Will bring fresh ideas
Will improve my ability to lead in my community
Is easy to access
Will create relationships necessary for future crises

We are considering a variety of ways a national network of civic leaders can interact across locations and time zones. Whether or not you are interested in this national network of leaders, how likely would you participate in these kinds of things?

	Very likely would participate	Somewhat likely	Somewhat unlikely	Very unlikely would participate
A local program in my community, coordinated nationally
A national program (cohort-based)
A private Facebook group
A private LinkedIn group
National virtual sessions
Regional virtual sessions
Podcasts
National conferences in major cities
National retreats in resort areas
Regional conferences in major cities
Regional retreats in resort areas
A web site

There are many things an organization for a group of leaders such as yourself could do. Below are a few of them. Please remember that what is discussed in all programs would remain confidential. For each, please indicate if this would make you more or less interested in participating.

	Much more interested	Somewhat more interested	No change in my level of interest	Somewhat less interested	Much less interested
Provide moderated small group conversations on common civic issues.
Hear from prominent speakers, who are alumni of a leadership program, to discuss a common civic issue.
Provide moderated small group conversations to discuss challenges each of us encounter in being civic leaders.
Provide moderated small group conversations to discuss challenges each of us encounter in being leaders in our professions.
Hear from prominent speakers, who are alumni of a civic leadership group, to share insights on leadership.
Allow alumni of civic leadership programs to present noteworthy case studies.
As an organization, work in a non-partisan way on tackling a common civic issue.
Encourage working groups under the organization's wing to self-create and tackle civic issues
Encourage working groups under the organization's wing to self-create and conduct civic projects.
Provide opportunities for people to network with other graduates based on their profession.
Provide opportunities for people to network with other graduates based on their civic interests.
Allow colleagues to initiate small mastermind groups to support our mutual growth personally and on civic issues.
Allow colleagues to initiate small mastermind groups to allow leaders to create relationships with diverse backgrounds who may not be present in their own communities.
Allow colleagues to initiate small mastermind groups to allow leaders to help get specific projects off the ground.
Create a list of colleagues who are experts on various topics and would be willing resource to other communities.
Provide learning sessions on topic areas that may not have been covered at your civic leadership program.
Have a certificate-style training program on community mediation.
Have a certificate-style training program on driving transformational change.
Connect mentors and mentees from outside their locale.
Have periodic TedTalk-style sessions.
Have Shark Tank-style sessions to pitch ideas with service-providers and get feedback.
Have Shark Tank-style sessions to pitch ideas with funders and get feedback.
Have Shark Tank-style sessions to pitch ideas - and the winner gets funding!
Connect leaders growing a company or organization to leaders in communities looking for development.
Periodic surveys to enlighten each other on the opinions of a national group of informed leaders on interesting topics.
Create advisory boards on various issues to provide expertise to local communities.
Create working travel opportunities to visit other communities to showcase their successes in depth.
Pair up with leaders from one civic leadership program with another program with similar issues.
Pair up with leaders from one civic leadership program with another program, with leaders from different backgrounds.
Prepare a quarterly publication, delivered electronically and printable, allowing more in-depth exploration of ideas and ways colleagues are connecting.
Share topics, written by alumni, to an online group to spur thoughtful discussion.
Create a "parking lot" of ideas in which leaders might become involved.
Provide an incubator model, where new or existing ideas can have mentoring to attract like-minded leaders and develop and build solutions.

National Leadership Network Engagement

Considering all you have been exposed to in this survey, how interested would you be in creating connections with other graduates or alumni of similar civic leadership programs from other areas across the United States?

And, based on what you have seen, are you aware of any national groups that are doing something similar? If you are familiar with one, what is their name?

National groups doing similar work:

Skills & Interests

Skill #1

Skill #2

Skill #3

Other (skill):

Expertise #1

Expertise #2

Expertise #3

Demographics

Are you...?

Other:

What is your age?

Your current work status is best described as...

Which of the following best describes your current sector, or the sector you most affiliate with during your career?

Which of the following industry segments best describes your current industry, or the industry you most affiliate with during your career?

Other (Segment)

Is the area in which you live...?

What is your approximate household income?

Are you of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish background?

IF NOT HISPANIC: For statistical purposes only, how would you describe your main ethnic or racial group? (NEED TO ADD VALUES)

Finally, this is an opportunity to write a message to the leadership program you attended. This is not required. Your identity will be kept confidential, though you may choose to include your name, at your discretion. Please write anything that you would like to pass along to your program, including how they can help increase outcomes of leadership in the community.

Would you be willing to be contacted to discuss the issues raised in this survey, including information about a new national leadership network? Your participation remains confidential.

Contact Info

First Name

Last Name

Email

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