Rockwood Leadership Institute

Private Programs: Rockwood convenes leaders within a given issue area or geographic region in order to catalyze more powerful and engaged learning communities and partnerships. Each program identifies 12-24 influential leaders to engage in intensive training and receive tools in transformational leadership. Rockwood's Private Programs that were delivered in whole or in part in 2022 served a total of 367 leaders. Multi-session Fellowships included: Building Power for Healthy Communities; Early Care, Learning and Health Leaders; Documentary Leaders; Equity in Philanthropy; Leaders in Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice. There were also a number of one-session customized trainings with various funders and partners.

Public Programs: Rockwood leads multi-day leadership development retreats for social change leaders from the nonprofit, philanthropic, labor and socially responsible business sectors. This work includes our flagship "Art of Leadership" (AOL) training as well as the newer "Art of Navigating Change" (ANC). In 2022, Rockwood offered a total of fifteen virtual public trainings, in which 419 individuals participated.

Fiscal Sponsorships: Rockwood served as the fiscal sponsor for four independent projects in 2022, including: Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation (a professional coaching training program that focuses on building the capacity of BIPOC social justice movement leaders), the BUILD Leadership Transition (leadership transition programming for US-based Ford BUILD grantees); Desire Mapping Project (workshops for the BLM and Transformative Justice Movements); and F4NCA (a self-organized gathering of alumni from Rockwood's Fellowship for a New California).