About this course

Proficiency Area: Leading.

Community Leadership is an organization's ability to inspire external partners, collaborators, and stakeholders to work toward a common vision and mission.

In the first lesson toward your silver Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • Five phases of building a community leadership initiative.

  • Using your "intended impact statement" to focus our approach to community leadership.

  • How a goal-setting exercise can help clarify what we really want to get out of a community leadership initiative.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect in this badge

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Putting Your Community Leadership Abilities Into Practice

    1. Activating Your Community Leadership Abilities

    2. Leading Community Leadership Efforts

    3. Check your learning

    1. Improving Community Leadership Practices in Your Nonprofit

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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