Helping Atlanta's Community Leaders Achieve Results for Kids and Families

Atlanta Lead­ers for Results (ALR), a 10-month lead­er­ship devel­op­ment pro­gram of the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion, is designed to devel­op lead­ers in the non­prof­it and pub­lic sec­tors in Atlanta. 

Atlanta is the home of UPS and a spe­cial place to the Foun­da­tion. Along with Bal­ti­more, Atlanta is con­sid­ered a civic site, which is a loca­tion where the Foun­da­tion has made a sus­tained, sig­nif­i­cant phil­an­thropic invest­ment. As part of this work, the Foun­da­tion has nur­tured diverse, vision­ary lead­ers who could achieve bet­ter results for Atlanta’s chil­dren and families.

Par­tic­i­pants in ALR worked to devel­op core com­pe­ten­cies that equipped them to make changes intend­ed to pro­duce results, from using data effec­tive­ly to col­lab­o­rat­ing with oth­ers and address­ing racial, class and cul­tur­al disparities.

Dono­van Lee-Sin, a mem­ber of the pro­gram’s first cohort, was a pro­gram offi­cer with the local Arthur M. Blank Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion and his port­fo­lio includ­ed ear­ly child­hood and K–12 edu­ca­tion. Lee-Sin said that par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ALR pro­gram pro­vid­ed him with ​“real tools that I can apply not in the­o­ry but in prac­tice to my day-to-day work.” In addi­tion, he not­ed that the pro­gram’s results-based lead­er­ship approach helped his dis­cus­sions with grantees and oth­er part­ners focus more on ​“results than on programs.” 

The third cohort of ALR launched in Sep­tem­ber 2014.