Common Good Partnerships

Common Good Partnerships, formerly known as Leadership Transformation Grants, is a grant funded leadership development partnership offered by the Kansas Leadership Center. The Kansas Leadership Center is a nonprofit organization founded by the Kansas Health Foundation and provides leadership training intended to support stronger, healthier, and more prosperous Kansas communities. Through Common Good Partnerships, the Kansas Leadership Center seeks civically engaged organizations across Kansas that want to build a culture of leadership capable of embracing change, addressing difficult problems, and pursuing opportunities. The partnership is designed to saturate participating organizations with the Kansas Leadership Center leadership framework so that leadership development occurs across multiple levels of the organization rather than being limited to people holding formal leadership positions. Organizations selected for a Common Good Partnership receive grant funded access for one year to programs on the KLC Path. The available programs are When Everyone Leads, Your Leadership Edge, Lead for Change, and Equip to Lead. When Everyone Leads and Your Leadership Edge must be completed in consecutive order, after which participants have two options for completing Step 3 of the path. Multiple program offerings are planned throughout 2027, and both in person and virtual programs will be available. Partner organizations are responsible for recruiting their participants and supporting them as they move through the KLC Path. The grant does not cover books or other required program materials. Partner organizations must either pay for those materials themselves or require individual participants to purchase them. Each selected organization must establish a Core Team of three to five individuals to lead implementation of the Common Good Partnership. Core Team members must be identified in the application. The team is responsible for attending Kansas Leadership Center events and programs, recruiting and supporting participants, participating in regular evaluation efforts, and using Kansas Leadership Center resources and consultation. The partnership model is informed by research cited by the Kansas Leadership Center indicating that leadership development across organizational levels can contribute to workforce engagement, adaptive thinking, collaborative problem solving, communication, organizational culture change, and progress on significant organizational challenges. Eligibility is limited to civically engaged Kansas organizations in specified sectors. Eligible education organizations include school districts, institutions of higher education, school support organizations, and educational networks. Eligible faith organizations include churches, Islamic societies, temples, district level entities, and collaborative faith alliances. Eligible government organizations include city, county, and state government agencies. Eligible nonprofit sector organizations include community foundations, health organizations, social advocacy organizations, arts organizations, chambers, civic clubs, and business associations. The source does not state a monetary award amount, minimum or maximum award, total program funding amount, or required cost share or matching contribution. Applicants are instructed to download and review the Call for Applications and to download the Application Questions and review and answer them with their team. Applicants must also collect a Letter of Support from a senior authority within their organization. The application itself must be completed and submitted through the online application. The application must identify the three to five individuals who will serve on the required Core Team. The source does not provide the actual application questions, a scoring rubric, numerical evaluation criteria, or an explicit application preparation time estimate. It does indicate that the Kansas Leadership Center is seeking organizations that will use its framework broadly within their organization to make lasting progress on significant challenges. The application period is scheduled to open August 12, 2026. The detailed application instructions state that the online application must be submitted by September 14, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. The page also contains promotional language stating Apply August 12 through September 15, creating a discrepancy with the detailed submission instructions. The September 14 deadline is used here because it appears in the specific How to Apply instructions and includes an exact submission time. Optional virtual question and answer opportunities with Partner Manager Camille Scott are scheduled for September 1, September 2, and September 10, 2026. These sessions are informational and are not identified as mandatory application gates. Applicant selections and decisions are expected to be announced in October, followed by a virtual onboarding workshop for Grant Administrators from selected organizations in November. Program participation will occur during 2027. For further assistance or information, applicants may contact Partner Manager Camille Scott at cscott@kansasleadershipcenter.org. The Kansas Leadership Center is located at 325 East Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas 67202, and its general telephone number is 316.712.4950. The source identifies partner cohorts for 2024, 2025, and 2026, supporting treatment of the opportunity as recurring annually. Based on the August 12 opening of the current cycle, the next anticipated application cycle is August 2027, with an internal monitoring date of August 1, 2027. Exact dates for a future application cycle have not yet been stated in the supplied source.

Demonstrate readiness to saturate the organization with the KLC leadership framework and make lasting progress on significant challenges; Select a committed Core Team of three to five individuals; Show capacity to recruit and support participants; Be prepared to participate in regular evaluation efforts and use KLC resources and consultation