by Chuck Wolfe
Posted: 07/10/2012 8:45 pm

LGBT Leaders: Born or Built?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chuck-wolfe/lgbt-leaders-born-or-built_b_1662999.html

This week the David Bohnett Foundation made a substantial investment in the future of LGBT leadership when it announced a grant of $800,000 to help send mid-career, openly LGBT professionals to Harvard Kennedy School. The gift to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute funds the David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellows program, now in its 10th year, which allows out leaders to partake of Harvard's renowned executive education programs.

Right now seven Bohnett Leadership Fellows are engaged in an intensive three-week session at Harvard, the second class of Fellows to experience the program this summer. They bring the total number of Bohnett Fellows to more than 100 since it was launched in 2002.

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http://www.victoryinstitute.org/fellows
About the program

Designed for all senior-level executives working with state and local governments — including government officials, nonprofit leaders, and elected officeholders — this intensive, three-week Executive Education program at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hones skills and furthers the leadership potential of accomplished individuals from across the United States.  Sessions are held in June and July.
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Note: Deadlines for applications to the 2012 program have already passed. Sign up here for a reminder to apply to the David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellowship next year:
http://victoryinstitute.org/fellows_announcement
-Madeline