Winter 2009-2010

Learning to Lead: Within Yourself, Your Organization, Your Community

"A Growing Need for Leaders", proclaims the front page of the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s April 23, 2009 edition. "Despite the recession, charities are having a tough time recruiting enough top talent…More leaders were needed in 2008 than were predicted by the Leadership Deficit."

Prepare yourself for leadership opportunities.
Beginning in winter 2010, the Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership will launch Learning to Lead: Within Yourself, Your Organization, Your Community, a leadership program that emphasizes a hands-on approach to leadership development within a collaborative framework.  The program is as much about doing and discussing as about showing and telling. 

Learning to Lead focuses on embracing the challenge of leadership while extending mission beyond the organizational walls.  In this framework, nonprofit leaders work internally on their own development as well as within the boundaries of their organizations and the communities that they serve. 

Individual participants will:

• Explore their individual leadership strengths and weaknesses with techniques to build upon the positives and strengthen the weaknesses, as well as identify specific methods for continued leadership development.
• Gain practical skills with practical applications for leading in their organizations, in the areas of communication, financial management, fundraising, marketing, boards of directors.
• Identify and build skills to affect change in their communities, including advocacy methods for their agency’s mission as well as developing networks, exploring partnerships and collaborations.
• Develop a personal leadership career plan within their agency, their community and the nonprofit sector.

This nine-month program is designed for new and emerging leaders in the non-profit community.  Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Adelphi University.

To learn more about the program, please contact Catherine Papandrew at 516.877.4415 or cpapandrew@adelphi.edu

This program is made possible through the generous support of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Nassau County Youth Board.