James F. Krile

JAMES F. KRILE is a community leadership practitioner who directed the Blandin Community Leadership Program at the Blandin Foundation, overseeing participation by more than four thousand people from rural Minnesota. He is the author of The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources, co-authored with Gordon Curphy and Duane R. Lund, and co-authored Who Needs Rural America?

Krile joined the Blandin Foundation in 1986 and also directed its Reservation Leadership Program and Partners In Leadership Program. The Blandin Foundation is a private foundation based in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, focused on strengthening rural communities.

James lives in Minnesota.

James F. Krile’s books are published by Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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