Specialized Training: Community Leadership Institute
The Community Leadership Institute is an invitation only training event that aims to strengthen the voices and skills of community, resident, and volunteer leaders. Participants attend in teams from areas served by NeighborWorks Network organizations and their partners.
Since 1995, NeighborWorks America has conducted over 20 CLIs. The CLIs provide a framework for learning and a forum for discussing community issues and sharing best practices and solutions to the problems faced by low-income communities around the country.
At the end of every CLI, each participating Team creates an action plan so they can effectively bring the knowledge they gained at the CLI back to their communities and use it to effect positive change.
Some of the training workshops offered at CLIs include:
Developing Your Leadership Potential
Mobilizing Young People as Leaders for Community Change
Working in Diverse Communities
Getting the Media's Eye
Understanding Predatory Lending Practices
Dealing with Absentee Landlords
Using Technology to Help Build Community
Dorothy Richardson Awards for Resident Leadership
The Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership is an honor bestowed annually in recognition of outstanding contributions by dedicated community leaders.
Photo courtesy Greater Milwaukee Convention & Visitors Bureau
The 2nd National CLI will be held in Milwaukee October 15th–18th, 2009. Learn more about the Milwaukee CLI and about CLIs in general at the CLI resources website (a member log-in is required to access this site).
1st National CLI October 23–26, 2008, San Jose, CA: This was the first annual CLI. Approximately 1/2 of the NeighborWorks Network organizations participated. A limited number of non-Network organizations were also invited to participate. This CLI hosted approximately 900 participants in 120 teams. For more information about future CLIs, contact your local NeighborWorks organization.
View a slide show video of photos from the 2008 National CLI:
The members of the Peurto Rico group gave out "Free Peurto Rican Hugs" during the Action Planning Session at the National CLI because "it is always nice to spread the love around the world." Share the experience of the first ever National CLI with this video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3V-84B61Q
The Gulf Coast CLI was held June 19–22, 2008, in New Orleans, LA. This event was exclusively for the communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast. For more information on the Gulf Coast CLI, visit the Gulf Coast CLI website .
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Enjoy an inspirational video from the Milwaukee CLI at NeighborWorks' SmugMug site.
