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Leadership Development

Leadership development group in El Valle, New Mexico

RCAC’s leadership program assists local rural community leaders and emerging leaders to effectively work together, access resources, build partnerships and successfully complete a community development project as part of a team.

RCAC works with rural communities that have requested leadership training and have demonstrated readiness to commit to the program. RCAC and the community collaborate to recruit a broad and diverse cross-section of the community to spend four weekends over four months learning leadership skills such as fundraising, marketing, team building, volunteer recruitment and maintenance, project planning and implementation. The group then spends a year practicing the skills they learned by implementing a small, visible project they conceptualize. The participants and graduates infuse the skills they learn into other organizations and situations in which they are involved, thereby continually improving a broad, diverse cross-section of their communities.

The leadership program also is delivered in segments that can be tailored to groups instead of using the full comprehensive curriculum, due to limited funding, time or specific areas that need to be targeted. This approach does not include a community project and is significantly more affordable than the full comprehensive program. This approach can be delivered in a day, 1.5 days and up to 3 days.

Resources

• Leadership Development Contacts