Community Leadership Program
2025 Milton-Freewater Communitty Leadership Program offered in Spanish and EnGLISh
The Sherwood Trust Community Leadership Program helps develop essential leadership skills unique to rural settings. Discover your personal strengths, enhance your ability to collaborate, explore local priorities and drive positive change. Perfect for emerging and experienced leaders alike.
This year, Community Leadership will be offered in both Spanish and English cohorts.
The community leadership program is for anyone over the age of 18 who wants to get stuff done in their community. Participants discover personal strengths, uncover community assets, frame and advocate ideas, initiate and sustain action. Participants include people who want to learn more about leadership, from emerging leaders to those who have leadership experience.
Sherwood Trust and Rural Development Initiatives partner to bring this no-cost leadership development program to build skills and community connections. Sherwood Trust covers all costs of the leadership program (meals, materials, trainings, etc.) in exchange for your full participation and commitment to being a dedicated and engaged community member throughout the class and project. We believe Milton-Freewater's greatest assets are people like you who are willing to pitch in and make a difference. We welcome your registration and your commitment to develop your skills as a leader and as an engaged and committed community member.
Our partner, Rural Development Initiatives, strengthens rural people, places, and economies in the Pacific Northwest. RDI provides on-the-ground leadership development and adaptive technical assistance as communities imagine new possibilities, face new challenges and diversify their economies.
Apply Today. English cohort begins April 4. Spanish cohort begins March 15.
Apodera Tu Liderazgo Programa De liderazga comunitario rural
Este curso está diseñado para empoderar tanto a líderes emergentes como establecidos, brindándoles las herramientas y conocimientos esenciales para generar un impacto positivo en las comunidades rurales. A través de seis sesiones interactivas presenciales, los participantes explorarán temas clave de liderazgo, incluyendo el entendimiento de los estilos de liderazgo personal, la reflexión sobre la cultura y los valores, la identificación de intereses individuales, la apreciación de diversas perspectivas y el fortalecimiento de las habilidades necesarias para liderar proyectos comunitarios efectivos. El grupo estará compuesto por 20 participantes, desde líderes nuevos hasta lideres activos, promoviendo una red colaborativa y comprometida con la acción grupal. Al finalizar el programa, los participantes habrán adquirido habilidades valiosas para fortalecer su confianza, maximizar sus capacidades de liderazgo y ejecutar proyectos que generen un impacto duradero, contribuyendo así al crecimiento y la vitalidad de las comunidades rurales.
Habra cuidado de niños. Se proveerá Desayuno lidero y Almuerzo.