Leadership Greater Chicago

Leadership Greater Chicago is a 40 year old, Chicago-based organization that brings together civic leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sector to build relationships and advance civic life in the Chicago area.

Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC) is a convener, connector, and mobilizer of leaders who wish to achieve transformative civic impact across the Chicago metropolitan area. LGC operates two leadership programs: the Signature Fellows Program, an intensive 10-month program for mid-career professionals from the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors; and the Daniel Burnham Fellowship, designed to introduce newly relocated or promoted executives to the civic community in the metropolitan area. With this award, LGC creates a new program, All Hands on Deck, that will explore the socioeconomic issues that Chicago must address as it strives to overcome both the COVID-19 pandemic and longstanding racial inequity.