| April 12, 2011 | | 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Do you want to make a difference in your community? Learn from experienced organizers in the 2011 Jamaica Plain Community Leadership Academy. In five interactive workshops, participants will build practical skills to strengthen their own leadership styles.
Learn more and meet some of last year’s graduates at our Open House
Tuesday, April 12, 6:30-8 PM
Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine Street
Academy Schedule:
6 – 8:30pm on
May 25
June 8
June 29
July 10
August 10
Contact Kyle for more information, 617-522-2424 x279 or krobidoux@jpndc.org. Read more about the Academy and download an application at the JPNDC website, www.jpndc.org
Youth Work Central is an on-line resource tool of Health Resources in Action’s BEST Initiative (which is housed in the Training and Capacity Building Department).
The BEST Initiative is northern New England’s only region-wide professional development and credentialing system for youth workers and their supervisors. The BEST Initiative is widely recognized for its youth development approach, which recognizes and builds on young people’s assets and strengths. Composed of a diverse staff, BEST has expertise in a variety of topics including but not limited to:
- Youth Development
- Peer Leadership
- Supporting and Supervising Staff
- Gender Sensitivity
- Program Development
- Youth-Adult Collaboration
- Youth Engagement
Full Training Curriculum and Registration Information
| May 7, 2010 | | 11:45 am | to | 1:00 pm | | May 12, 2010 | | 8:45 am | to | 10:00 am |
Information Session
Date: May 7 & 12, 2010
Time:
11:45am – 1:00pm (5/7)
8:45am – 10:00am (5/12)
Location: State Street Corporation (1 Lincoln Street, Boston)
The Emerging Leadership Program (ELP), now in its 9th year, is an executive leadership training and development program where participants have an opportunity to:
- Meet with current leaders in Boston
- Develop individual leadership skills
- Work on real team projects that will have an impact in the greater Boston region
Attend an information session to find out how to join the network of 400 young professionals who have completed the program.
For additional information, please visit: www.leaders.umb.edu
| September 10, 2010 | | September 24, 2010 |
Join Next Street’s Temeka Moss for an engaging two-part workshop designed to improve your organization’s overall performance through management best practices.
Date: Friday, September 10, 2010 & Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
Nonprofit Registration Fee: $500.00
Next Street Talent is pleased to announce the launch of the Leadership Series, a two-part, in-depth workshop focused on senior leaders from both nonprofit and for profit organizations.
The series is dedicated to a combination of topics that explore the behaviors and qualities of an effective manager and how to leverage innovative methods and tools to address the challenges facing today’s leaders. The sessions provide a balance of group learning and exercises targeted to assess and improve one’s own leadership style, preferences and practices.
For more information and registration, please contact:
Tameka Moss
tmoss@nextstreet.com
617-318-6508
http://www.nextstreet.com/downloads/September_2010_Talent_Leadership_Series_VF.pdf
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Time: 9:30am – 3:00pm
Location: Madison Park Development Corporation, Smith House
(757 Shawmut Ave. Roxbury, MA 02119)
“Developing Successful Organizing Strategies and Campaigns” will build on the success of our previous workshop “Basics of Community Organizing,” by providing organizers and other Community Organization staff and leaders with practical tools that they need to carry out effective community organizing campaigns that will promote positive change in their neighborhoods.
The agenda will include:
- Choosing Issues to Organize Around
- Understanding the difference between problems and issues
- Engaging leaders and the larger community in the campaign planning process
- Achieving and maintaining buy-in from Community based organization leaders and staff
- Developing a Campaign
- Understanding elements of a campaign: Assessing Goals, Resources Needed, Allies/Opponents, Decision-makers, Tactics
- Action Steps: Developing a campaign within your organization
The training will be hands-on and intensive, with a mix of brief presentations followed by discussion of each topic. There will be several role plays and opportunities for participants to share their experiences with peers. We will break into smaller groups for some of the topics. Participants will take away from the session concrete ideas for how to develop more effective organizing initiatives in their own CDCs.
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Date: March 29-July 2, 2010
Program Fee: $1,300 per person
Application Deadline: March 8, 2010
Leading Change is an online program designed to help leaders of civic associations, advocacy groups, and social movements learn how to organize communities that can mobilize power to make change. The program represents a unique online learning opportunity for nonprofit and non-governmental organization managers to interact with colleagues from around the world.
The online session will involve identifying, recruiting, and developing leadership, organizing community around that leadership, and building power from the resources of that community.
The program will be held from March 29 – July 2, 2010.
For more information and application please visit the Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change website at http://ksgexecprogram.harvard.edu/forms/oppc/oppc3.aspx
On the Leading Edge of Social Change
For nearly 30 years, The Center for Leadership Innovation (TCLI) has been dedicated to serving communities through society’s most valuable asset: its leaders. Through their workshops, networks and funding opportunities, they are helping diverse leaders to reach their full potential and leverage their ability to bring about innovative change.
TCLI sponsored programs have touched 17,000 urban and rural leaders who are achieving community-driven social change. TCLI is dedicated to building a movement of diverse leaders and organizations that understand and are grounded in the communities they serve. Over 64% of program graduates are people of color, and 77% are people of color or women.
TCLI creates an open, candid, and energized learning community where new insights and breakthrough approaches for social change can emerge.
The Center for Leadership Innovation provides exposure to best practices, peer coaching and intensive leadership development programs that inspire current leaders and prepare the next generation to implement ideas that will revitalize communities and reinvent organizations.
For more information please visit the TCLI website at: http://www.centerforleadershipinnovation.org/
| September 17, 2009 | | 9:00 am |
The Community Development Innovation Forum Presents
Telling Our Story: Building support for building better places
and
An update on Innovation Forum Phase 2 projects
September 17, 2009
9:00 – 1:30
Plymouth Church
85 Edgell Road
Framingham, MA 01701
Summary: This will be the first of four quarterly gatherings to be held during phase 2 of the Innovation Forum. The session will follow up on one of the key recommendations to emerge from Phase One: that the Community Development Sector needs to be much more effective about telling our story in the context of today’s economic and social environment. The session will be run in part by Action Media (www.actionmedia.org), a nationally known organization with deep expertise in values-based messaging and how to apply those tools to the housing and community development sector. Action Media’s workshop will present research and tools on how to effectively communicate about our field and our work and give attendees an opportunity to begin applying those tools to their current work.
Registration: https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/macdc/eventRegistration.jsp?event=39
Please contact Allison Staton at MACDC (allisons@macdc.org) if you have any questions about the September 17th session.
MACDC presentation Sept 17 2009 new (Powerpoint)
MACDC presentation Sept 17 2009 pdf (pdf)
   
The Initiative for Diversity in Civic Leadership provides education and training opportunities to help individuals from diverse political backgrounds to successfully run for elected office, manage and run political campaigns, and serve in all levels of government.
http://www.initiativefordiversity.net/
The 16-week program includes four major thematic elements:
Leadership
Public Policy
Candidate Training
Public Administration
September 15, 2009 Info Session @ Suffolk University
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
McDermott Conference Room (128)
Donahue Building
41 Temple Street
Boston MA 02111
RSVP: Alejandra @ 617-426-6633
The mission of the Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership is to educate, support, and connect the next generation of nonprofit leaders. In addition to its cornerstone Certificate Program the Institute conducts research and supports a burgeoning network of practitioners through fellowships, teaching and mentoring opportunities, and access to university resources.
See BU’s Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
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