Dave Mills on the new Common Good Collaborative in Silicon Valley
As acronyms go, ALF is pretty good, and it denotes (an alien life form that landed on an NBC sitcom a few decades ago and) the American Leadership Forum, a national organization with local chapters, including an active one in Silicon Valley.
On Wednesday, Knight Foundation announced a partnership with the Silicon Valley ALF chapter and a new $1.5 million grant to begin a new initiative called the Common Good Collaborative.
Dave Mills, the Knight Foundation Program Director of San Jose, talks about what we’ll see in the coming year (speaker series, forums, matching scholarship funds) of this three-year grant:
What do you think should be part of this new initiative?
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:42 am
i would like to partner with local efforts in san jose, supporting community leaders, promotores and community health workers to join the discussion and solution.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
San Jose State University educates future leaders of Silicon Valley. More and more this education integrates the “community engagement” of faculty & students towards the new Common Good. SJSU should expect to be a part of this collaborative. At the same time, supporting more of our (working) students with scholarships to “learn and serve” would be beneficial toward that cause.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Michael, I couldn’t agree more. I’m the program director here in San Jose and have already reached out to the University in this regard. Perhaps we should talk face to face?