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This six-week long, graduate level Institute help participants learn to adapt their skills and knowledge from career and life experience and apply it in a nonprofit setting for the benefit of the community. The Institute provides participants with briefings on important environmental topics, orients them to the realities and cultural aspects of nonprofits, and provides training for the specific role of community outreach coordinator in an environmental nonprofit organization. The “Legacy Leaders” is matched with one of the organizations and serves in a professional-level unpaid internship of between 250-400 hours.
Institute meets Tuesdays and Wednesdays from March 25 to April 30, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Topics include:
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Behavioral Style |
Our Environment
1. Frame the issues
2. Climate change
3. Environmental justice |
Multigenerational Workplace |
Environment World Café and What is the future of environmentalism?
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Community Outreach--Messaging
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The Leadership Challenge |
Environment—Food Systems |
Site Visits |
Nonprofit Organization/ Business/Government
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Jim Collins Good to Great in Social Sector—facilitated discussion |
Environment—Sustainability- |
Community Outreach--Media Contacts and How-to's
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Building Volunteer Relationships |
Cultural Competence |
Outreach to Diverse Communities |
Community Outreach--Making Space, the Art of Community Engagement
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Community Outreach--Community Assessment and Relationship Building
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Cycles of Career Change |
Contracting as a Professional Volunteer |
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