Selected Articles and Publications by the Innovation Center

• “Make Space at the Table” The Philanthropy Journal, February 19, 2007, by Wendy Wheeler. Wendy makes the case for why foundations and nonprofit organizations need to welcome and promote youth engagement in philanthropy and social change efforts. Copies can be found online by clicking here or you can access a PDF copy from the Innovation Center through this link.
• “Learning, leading and unleashing potential: Youth leadership and civic engagement” New Directions for Youth Development, Spring 2006, by Wendy Wheeler and Innovation Center Board member Carolyn Edlebeck. Copies can be found online by clicking here or you can access a PDF copy from the Innovation Center through this link.
• “Youth Engagement: A Celebration across Time and Culture: Framing the Issue,” by Innovation Center president Wendy Wheeler, highlights the history, lessons, best practices, and opportunities of meaningful youth engagement to create positive social change. More information can be found at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation website.
• “Youth Engagement: A Celebration across Time and Culture: Proceedings Summary” by Innovation Center Vice President Hartley Hobson documents proven practices, promising ideas, and ideas to expand the impact of the three-day seminar coordinated by the Innovation Center that brought together youth activists from across time and culture and their adult allies as part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Seminar series. More information can be found at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation website.
• “Community-Based Youth Leadership: A Pathway to Civic Engagement” was written by Innovation Center president Wendy Wheeler and Carla Roach for the international conference “Education and the Civic Purpose of Schools,” organized jointly by the Harvard School of Education and the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress.
• “Youth Leadership for Development: Civic Activism as a Component of Youth Development Programming and a Strategy for Strengthening Civil Society” from the Handbook of Applied Developmental Science. Published in 2003, this article by Wendy Wheeler outlines the rationale, framework, and implications of engaging young people, particularly young people from challenged backgrounds, as leaders in the development of themselves and their community.
• “Youth-Led Community Building: Promising Practices from Two Communities Using Community-Based Service-Learning,” Journal of Extension, February 2005. Written by Innovation Center partner Linda Camino, Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this article explores how community-based service-learning that promotes youth engagement and voice while providing services to communities can be a powerful tool in creating positive and lasting change.
• “Emerging Organizational Theory and the Youth Development Organization,” Journal of Applied Developmental Science, Volume 4, Supplement 1, 2000. Written by Innovation Center president Wendy Wheeler, who also served as a guest editor for this issue, this article explores the connection between youth development organizations structures and emerging organizational practice theory, using the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development and KLCC II partner organization Mi Casa Resource Center for Women as examples.
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