The Bingham Fellows is the Leadership Louisville Center’s community action program and for nearly 20 years has provided creative leadership solutions to some of the region’s most pressing problems.  The program brings together groups of passionate, informed, dedicated leaders to use a creative problem-solving process to address real community issues. Fellows receive training in leading change processes, such as GE’s Change Acceleration Process (CAP) tools, to guide their work.

Outcomes from previous Bingham Fellows projects include the establishment of The Housing Partnership; formation of the Waste Management Board; construction of the Presbyterian Community Center in Smoketown and creation of FarmWorks, a group that promotes the benefits of locally grown produce and supports local farmers

History of the Bingham Fellows

Learn more about the work of past Bingham Fellows classes.

Class of 2007 Bingham Fellows project  

Who participates?

The 2008 Bingham Fellows program is comprised of graduates of other Leadership Louisville Center programs including Focus Louisville, Ignite Louisville, Leadership Louisville and the Leadership Network.  Graduates of other community leadership programs were also eligible to participate.  

The 2008 topic:
Strong Regional Partnerships: Creating the landscape of the future

Project description

The work of the Bingham Fellows Class of 2008 will address two questions of major importance: 

• How do we define regionalism? 
• How can we change the way we think and act together as a region to ensure balanced metropolitan growth? 

Serving as catalysts for this change, the Fellows will apply GE’s CAP tools to create innovative projects that will promote balanced growth for our region.

Program outcomes

The work of the Bingham Fellows Class of 2008 will be focused on four primary outcomes:

• Identify key regional leaders and stakeholders.
• Identify common ground within and among communities.
• Establish regional leadership collaborations.
• Plan and execute a regional leadership summit in August of 2008.

Community initiatives related to the 2008 topic

A number of initiatives in the community's history speak to the need to further explore the topic of regionalism.

Learn more about the initiatives that serve as the foundation for this year's topic.

Read Jack Trawick's (BF '08) op-ed article "Bingham Fellows class seeks to address questions of regionalism" in the July 18 issue of Business First.