Director of new Clore Social Leadership Programme announced
Howard Lake | 2 June 2008 | News
Dame Mary Marsh, Chief Executive of the NSPCC, is to be the founding Director of the new Clore Social Leadership Programme, a new initiative to develop and encourage emerging talent in the third sector.
She will step down from the NSPCC in the autumn to take up her role on a full-time basis.
Following over a year of research and consultation, the Clore Duffield Foundation announced the creation of the Clore Social Leadership Programme for aspiring third sector leaders in February of this year. Modelled on the Clore Leadership Programme for the cultural sector, which was founded five years ago under the Directorship of Lord Smith, the new Programme is designed to search out and provide support for talented individuals to prepare them to meet the challenges of leadership. Participants will become Fellows of the Clore Social Leadership Programme.
Dame Vivien Duffield, Chair of the Clore Duffield Foundation, said: “It has long been my ambition to extend our leadership work in the cultural sector to the wider voluntary sector. I am delighted that Dame Mary will be joining us to take this new Programme forward – we could not have asked for a more dedicated, experienced, passionate or knowledgeable founding Director.”
The Clore Duffield Foundation will be contributing £1.5 million to the new Programme over its first three years, and co-funders will be sought to contribute on a Fellowship-by-Fellowship basis. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has already agreed a contribution of £70,000 to fund a Fellowship for the first two years.
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