About
Community Leaders Fellowship
The Community Leaders Fellowship is an intensive professional development opportunity for nonprofit and community leaders focusing on a specific capacity challenge in their organization.
program description
Program participants apply for the fellowship with one specific capacity issue they would like to address through the fellowship.
Participants will be assisted in developing a one year capacity action plan with measurable benchmarks and deliverables that they will make progress toward during the 12 month program period.
Participants will attend 8 meetings over 12 months as well as making progress on their action plan in between meetings. Meetings will consist of a combination of learning opportunities on relevant topics to their capacity journey, peer support sessions to brainstorm solutions to challenges, one-on-one assistance developing an action plan to address their capacity issue, connection with experts to provide high-level insight into their capacity issue.
participant commitment
Attend 8 meetings over the 12 month program period between January - December 2024
Commit to making progress on capacity action plan in between meetings during the program period.
Report on benchmark and impact results at the 6 month and 1 year mark.
Application Process
Applications will open October 1 - October 31, 2023 for the 2024 Program Period
Eligible candidates are those serving in a leadership and decision making role at an organization or community agency for which at least 51% of its programming is focused on serving under resourced communities in Chaffee County.
Applicants should apply with a specific, measurable capacity issue for which their organization is committed to taking steps to address over the next year. Capacity issues might include, but are not limited to the following:
Revenue Diversification
Adoption of new technology that will transform the organization’s capacity
DEI Initiatives to increase diversity of communities served and represented
Introduction of a new program model