Transformative Community Leadership Toolkit

Welcome to our first lessons on community leadership! In this series of videos, we will take our first steps in defining what “community leadership” means and look at why it matters. We will review the skills related to building up your own abilities to lead in the community, no matter what position you hold in your nonprofit.

We’ll close out this series by spending some time learning how we can spot what effective community leadership looks like. We’ll tie together what you may already be able to recognize as working...and needing improvement… in your own leadership.

Now let’s jump in on our learning with our first lesson on what community leadership is.

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump in on an overview of what community leadership is.

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Now that you have some basics about community leadership, let's take a look at why it matters.

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In this lesson, we'll look at the key skills related to community leadership. Remember: skills can be learned, practiced, and developed over time, so if you feel that you have a little (or a lot of!) room for improvement, know that you're on the right track!

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In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on what effective community leadership programs look like, and how can we measure them.

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A complementary concept is “intended impact,” which runs parallel to your theory of change. This intended impact describes your population of focus, where you will serve them, and what specific outcomes you’re planning to create for them.

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Welcome to our silver badge lessons on Community Leadership! As you work toward your silver badge, you’ll go deeper into the “how” of Community Leadership: how we can activate Community Leadership in our organization, how to lead Community Leadership efforts, and setting goals that look to build up your capacity and that of your organization in Community Leadership efforts.

Let’s jump in on our next lesson on activating our Community Leadership efforts in our nonprofits!

*Remember that a transcript of all audio is available for download in the lessons to come, and you can always turn on closed-captions on the video settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump get ready to do some action planning around community leadership efforts, and look closely at how you can make (or support) a really great plan for positive change in your own nonprofit.

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Now that we have a little bit of foundation in your community leadership efforts, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

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In this lesson, we'll look at how to put community leadership efforts into practice with a look at how to build and enhance it in your nonprofit.

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Any personal or professional type of improvement that we want to make is always more successful when we set goals to work toward and achieve. Improving your own community leadership abilities is no different!

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Goals can get us to new levels of functionality in many areas of our organization. We'll next consider how setting community leadership goals for your nonprofit can be successful both at the individual and team levels.

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Welcome to your final series of courses on community leadership! We’ve covered a lot of ground on what this type of leadership is and isn’t, how you can put it into practice, and what it looks like when it’s done well. In our gold-level lessons, we’ll bring this learning together to explore how we can get and stay motivated to build up our own community-focused leadership abilities. We’ll also look at some ways to inspire motivation or reduce resistance.

These lessons also include a review of all we have covered in our work on community leadership, and you’ll have the opportunity to complete a personal learning plan to conclude your learning.

Let's jump in!

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll look at how motivation can be supported in building community leadership efforts in your organization.

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In this lesson, we're going to discuss how we can inspire others to get personally motivated about nonprofit community leadership, especially those who may be resistant.

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In this final teaching lesson on community leadership, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

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