Dr. Frank L. Winfrey, the Clark N. and Mary
Perkins Barton Professor of Management at Lyon College, has been selected by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to participate as a member of its Arkansas Leadership
Design Work Group for the Mid South Delta Initiative (MSDI) “Lifting up the
Delta.”
This phase of the MSDI consists of a
collaborative 18-month design process involving residents of the 55 counties and
parishes of the Arkansas-Mississippi-Tennessee Delta region as well as nonprofits and agencies that
work in the region.
The objectives of “Lifting up the Delta” are to promote activities that have a
regional focus and expand the positive momentum for change across the region, to
support the values and culture of the region so that new programs and their
activities reflect the region’s commitment to family, faith, and community, to
engage people and groups in community change efforts, and to support new
approaches that challenge thinking and habits regarding what is truly possible
in the Delta.
The Arkansas Leadership Design Work Group will survey the current
situation regarding leadership, obtain input and ideas from people and
specialists, and develop a set of specific recommendations.
The recommendations will be used by a designated regional work group to
determine ways in which W.K. Kellogg Foundation Flexible Fund mini-grants might
be used across the region to initiate community change to enhance regional
economic opportunities.
Additional information about the Mid South Delta Initiative can be found online
at www.msdi.org.
September
5, 2006