Leadership Summit 2006

Wednesday October 25, 2006

“The future of community leadership programs in the greater Bay Area”

Northern California Leadership Program Summit - Hosted by Leadership Mountain View and Silicon Valley Leadership, sponsored by SYNOPSYS

Vision Statement

Our Summit brings together the trustees of community leadership in Northern California, to maintain and improve program effectiveness and stability for the long term.

Objectives

1. Discuss and thereby have an impact on our respective programs' values, enhancing our ability to reach out and educate people.
2. Enhance connections between leadership programs, both through networking at the event and tools for greater future connectivity.
3. Commit to the ideal that strong programs throughout our region benefit our individual communities and programs.

Summit Strategy   (to be finalized after survey results are compiled)

A number of challenges will be discussed in breakout groups. These will not be continuous lectures, but will be interactive. The following five topics are potential areas of discussion, and are here to illustrate potential topics of interest to Summit participants.

• • Economic stresses on local leadership programs (fund raising and expense issues)
• • Acquiring the diversity for stronger long term support
• • Meeting the changing needs of the community we serve - how we remain relevant
• • Does going it alone or working with other regional leadership programs have any impact on long term viability?
• • Any hot button issue that impacts the stability and effectiveness of local leadership programs

The Summit if full as of September 28. There will be people who will not be able to attend that have registered, so please contact the Summit to add your name onto the waiting list.

CONTACT: Jim Telfer, or call him at 408.716.1837.

Building 2 Shannon Conference Room
455 North Mary Ave. Sunnyvale 94085
Directions

Leadership Summit 2006 is being sponsored by SYNOPSYS, and there will be no charge to participants. Leadership Mountain View and Leadership Sunnyvale are the hosts for this event.

Summit Agenda   (updated: 10/18/06 - surveys have been returned)

It is expected that the agenda will be modified as the Summit draws near:

1.	Gathering & Refreshments (provided by SYNOPSYS)	9:00 am
2.	Welcome - Theo Olson (Synopsys Community Relations) Welcome - Ron Swegles Mayor of Sunnyvale	9:30 am
3.	Self-Introductions (One minute each) - Jim Telfer	9:35 am
4.	Breakout in Groups, discussion topics & instructions available here:	11:00 am
5.	Break	11:50 am
6.	Working lunch (provided by SYNOPSYS)	12:00 Noon
7.	Keynote Speaker Carl Guardino President & CEO Silicon Valley Leadership Group	1:00 pm
8.	Break	1:30 pm
9.	Group Reports & Discussion	1:40 pm
10.	Wrap-up	3:20 pm
11.	Adjournment	3:30 pm
12.	Mix & meet (wine and refreshments provided by SYNOPSYS)	3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Invited Participants

25 of 36 Leadership Programs invited have committed to attending as of Thursday, September 28, 2006.

The Summit is full as of September 28. Up to four (4) representatives have been invited from each program. A waiting list has been created. Please contact Jim Telfer, at or call him at 408.716.1837 to be put on the list. There will likely be a number of cancellations before the event.

The list of the 36 programs that have been invited is as follows, (note: Our list of programs includes chamber, city, county, college and independent run leadership programs):

*American Leadership Forum	APALI (Asian Pacific Leadership Institute)	*CORO
*Leadership Alameda County	Leadership Berkeley	*Leadership Contra Costa County
Leadership Cupertino	Leadership Fremont	*Leadership Gilroy
*Leadership Hayward	*Leadership Livermore	Leadership Los Gatos
*Leadership Manteca	Leadership Mid-Peninsula	Leadership Modesto
*Leadership Monterey Peninsula	*Leadership Morgan Hill	*Leadership Mountain View
*Leadership Napa	*Leadership Oakland	Leadership Petaluma
*Leadership Richmond	*Leadership Salinas	*Leadership San Benito County
*Leadership San Francisco	*Leadership San Jose	Leadership San Leandro
*Leadership San Ramon Valley	Leadership Santa Clara	*Leadership Santa Cruz County
*Leadership San Mateo	Leadership Santa Rosa	*Leadership Stockton
*Leadership Sunnyvale	*Leadership Vallejo	*US: The Community L. Assoc.

Note: "*" indicates that this organization is participating in the Summit. All programs are requested to participate in the survey below. A report of the compiled results will be shared with those programs that complete the survey.

If you belong to a program in the region not listed above and you think you or your organization would be an appropriate participant, please email Jim Telfer, the Executive Director for Leadership Sunnyvale, at or call him at 408.716.1837. We would greatly appreciate hearing from new programs as well as other programs that we have not included on this list.

Leadership Summit Survey

In preparation for the Summit on October, the following survey shall be filled out by each participant beforehand. This will give us a head start on the discussion.

If you have questions about this survey, please contact:
Jim Telfer, <>, phone: 408-716-1837
or Alice Freund, <>, phone: 408-732-0421

Directions:
Please respond to all questions that apply.
Add comments as necessary.
If your program is on hiatus, answer as well as possible for the most recent class.

I. Contact Information

Program Name: Executive Director or Program Coordinator: Who is filling out this survey, if different from above? Program email address: Program mailing address: Program phone number: Program website:

II. Program Management

Year founded: Geographic area served: Participation limited to a specific city or area? Y/N Typical annual class size: Estimate how many people have completed your program, in total: Estimated operating budget this year: $ Any significant recent changes? Why? Individual tuition: $ Typical number of scholarships given, amount: Do you have your own 501(c)(3) status? For how long? Program is managed by (or under the umbrella of) city/county/chamber of commerce or other larger institution? What? Any recent changes in that relationship? Do you have a paid staff member? How many? Full or part-time (hours devoted specifically to the program)? Do you have volunteers who regularly devote more than 6 hours/month to the program? How many? Do they have consistent roles? What are they? What is your mission or vision statement?

III. Class Sessions

Will you have a class this year? More than one? How many hours of instruction do you provide? How often do you meet? When does your "class year" begin and end (or is "year" not relevant)? How many of your hours are devoted to community learning? Leadership skills development? Action-oriented projects? Who designs your curriculum (e.g. director, curriculum specialist, class itself)? Are there specific materials (books, websites, other) you rely on for curriculum? Please list or attach. Describe your typical class member: How are class members chosen (e.g everyone who applies, committee interview, internal staff, etc.)? How much diversity do you have/want in areas such as gender, ethnicity, religion, socio-economics, etc.? Do you have hard data?

IV. Alumni

Do you have an alumni association? Does it have fiscal independence from the main program? Approximately how many active alumni do you have? How many current elected officials graduated from your program? What are the major ways that alumni go on to apply what they learned in your program? Are there specific expectations of graduates to contribute back to the program? If so, what? What are the main activities or mission of your Alumni Association, if you have one?

V. Feedback

What has worked particularly well for you in conducting the program, whether that be in recruiting / fundraising / curriculum / other? What was something you tried that just did not work? For the Leadership Summit, we will be breaking into smaller groups to discuss individual topics in more depth. Please help us to decide on the final list of breakout topics by ranking your top three interests below: Alumni associations Benchmarking programs to measure non-financial effectiveness Building brand identity and awareness Collaboration in the local community Collaboration with other leadership programs Core program values and mission Developing corporate sponsorships Diversity, goals and whys Economic stresses and expense issues Fundraising in the general community Leadership themes and curriculum Non-profit status and incorporation issues Recruiting the right people Remaining relevant as community needs change Volunteer roles within the program Other:

By returning this survey, you are giving us permission to share the information with the other leadership programs that also complete the survey.

Please also feel free to attach any PR sheet or brochure that you might have available.

Thanks for your time! We will have this information compiled for you at time of the Summit.

Provided Materials

There will be materials provided to registered attendees at the Summit, and the list of these items is being finalized.

For example, each registered attendee will receive a Summmit 2006 tote sponsored by: Josh Wagner of PlanRight.

We will have more information here when it becomes available.

Our Sponsor

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

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