Woman Leaders in Community Development

September 21, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

Women as Catalysts for Social Change: A Study of Women-Led Development Organizations describes the experiences, leadership styles, and barriers faced by women who run community-development groups. The report is based on interviews with 121 women in leadership roles and with 21 grant makers and academics in the field, and includes profiles of the organizations at which study participants work. The study was conducted by the McAuley Institute and the Howard Samuels State Management and Policy Center, at the City University of New York, and was financed by the Ford Foundation, in New York.

Publisher: McAuley Institute, 8300 Colesville Road, Suite 310, Silver Spring, Md. 20910; (301) 588-8110; fax (301) 588-8154; http://www.mcauley.org; 171 pages; $6.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.