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Arizona Civic Leadership Map
The Arizona Civic Leadership Map displays nonpartisan programs and organizations in Arizona focused on developing or deploying civic-leadership talent through skills development and/or issues forums to promote awareness.
Click on organization names on the map to access their websites.
This map was created by the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership. The Center includes the Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy, the Arizona Civic Leadership Collaborative, and an ongoing communications campaign to increase civic involvement and leadership.
This map is updated periodically. You may download current map data; please contact Matt Ellsworth to submit map edits.
: Anytown at the Y - Valley of the Sun YMCA
Anytown at the Y (Previously known as Anytown Arizona) empowers youth through leadership and diversity training to advocate change in their schools and community. Programs include an experience for students in grades 9-12. Anytown Jr. serves students in grades 7-8. Empowertown is held locally on school campuses and introduces diversity awareness to students in grades 6-12 and college level.
Collegetown is the organization's collegiate program at the three state universities. Beyond Anytown is activist focused and is open to grades 9-12 and college age students, mostly held during the spring or summer months.
Anytown at the Y partners with Camping services at Sky Y and Chauncey Ranch to provide program and activities.
Year Founded: 1957
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Greater Phoenix Leadership
Greater Phoenix Leadership (GPL) is a business leadership organization focused on civic-improvement initiatives for the state. GPL members collectively represent 105 top companies with more than 250,000 employees. Members work together to move forward initiatives, public policy, and projects to strengthen the future of Arizona. GPL works through its committees, taskforces, and other community organizations interested in the objectives identified annually by GPL in six main areas: education, transportation, crime prevention, community enhancement/vision, military facilities, and state finance.
Year Founded: 1975
Geographic Focus: Greater Phoenix
: Prescott Area Leadership, Inc.
Prescott Area Leadership informs program participants about critical community issues and supports their acquisition of leadership skills. During the first year of the two-year program, participants take part in a two-day retreat, issue days, skills day, field trips, and a shadowing exercise. Discussions are led by community leaders and area experts and cover the following topics: criminal justice; social service/health; arts and media; government/politics; regional issues; youth; growth; business; education; and the environment. In the second year of the program, participants utilize the skills developed during the first year to guide incoming class members. Second-year participation requires that class members either participate in Central Yavapai Institute and give a written and oral presentation, or serve on a Prescott Area Leadership Inc. committee, attend an issue day and field trip, and give a written and oral presentation.
Year Founded: 1990
Geographic Focus: Yavapai County--Prescott and Prescott Valley, including tribal areas
: Junior League of Phoenix Leadership Development Institute
The mission of the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) is to enhance the potential of women within the Junior League of Phoenix by providing focused trainings for those interested in participating in a leadership-building cohort.
Those interested in participating in the LDI will be provided with specific training dedicated to enriching the members' leadership skills. The LDI is committed to giving members a core base of knowledge to be used as a building block toward leadership roles within the JLP and beyond.
Applicants are chosen based on past and current experience and the desire to pursue leadership roles in the JLP as well as in other non-profit organizations and within the community as a whole.
Year Established: 2010
Geographic Focus: greater Phoenix
: Flagstaff Forty
Flagstaff Forty brings together leaders of Flagstaff businesses, institutions of higher education, and major non-profit organizations to address critical needs of the community and state and to make a difference in their outcomes. The group identifies a few key objectives annually, and then works with community organizations interested in those priorities. The group limits itself to approximately forty individuals with a principal residence in greater Flagstaff.
Year Founded: 2004
Geographic Focus: Flagstaff region in northern Arizona, but also statewide
: Arizona Town Hall
Arizona Town Hall sponsors a statewide forum to advance citizen participation and consensus on issues critical to the state. The Arizona Town Hall identifies issues, works with Arizona universities on authoritative background reports, creates forums for exploring topics, and fosters leadership development. Twice each year, the Arizona Town Hall brings together a cross-section of approximately 150 Arizonans to consider and discuss a topic of major concern to Arizona's future. Board members nominate individuals to participate in each session. Conference participants develop concrete recommendations, which are communicated to Arizonans through outreach programs throughout the state. Through these efforts the Town Hall seeks to inform and inspire Arizona citizens to make positive policy changes.
Year Founded: 1962
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Phoenix College, Raul H. Castro Institute (RCI)
Raul H. Castro Institute of Phoenix College is a collaborative effort of the Governor's Office; Maricopa County Community College District; and Phoenix College. The mission of the Institute is to create opportunities to empower the Latino community in three major priority areas: education, health and human services, leadership, and civic participation. The Institute forms partnerships and collaborates with many local, state and national public, non-profit and private organizations in enhancing the agenda in the Arizona Latino community.
Year Founded: 2006
Focus: Greater Phoenix (and statewide)
: University of Arizona Southwest Public Health Leadership Institute (SWPHLI)
The Southwest Public Health Leadership Institute's principal program, Leaders Across Borders, emphasizes personal leadership development as well as the development of transborder and health-diplomacy leadership skills. The program is a year-long binational leadership program designed for public-health, health-care, and other leaders working to improve the health of communities in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
The organization's mission is to improve the health of residents of Arizona and the Southwest through the leadership, strengthened capacity, and collaboration of public-health professionals, including those working in border communities along the U.S.-Mexico border and in tribal regions.
Year Founded: 1999
Geographic Focus: Participants are accepted from any location, but must show a commitment to working with underserved populations in the U.S.-Mexico border region and the Southwest.
: Sonoran Center for Leadership Development
The Sonoran Center for Leadership Development promotes leadership through programs and workshops that emphasize five fundamental values--service, social justice, experiential education, sustainability, and personal development. Workshops are offered to the community at large and are typically one-to-two hours in length, focusing on one issue or topic. Institutes are longer in length and cover leadership-development skills and the Center's five values.
Year Founded: 2009
Geographic Focus: Greater Tucson
: Maricopa Community Colleges: Center for Civic Participation
Programs of the Center for Civic Participation increase awareness among and involvement of community college students, faculty, staff, and the public in civic issues, public policy, and advocacy. Deliberative forums on timely community and policy issues, workshops on voting and public-policy processes, and development of instructional methods and resources to infuse civics across the curriculum are used to carry out the center's mission. The center partners with nonpartisan civic and government agencies to carry out public forums on national and state issues throughout metro Phoenix. Voter education, registration, information, and outreach are also major activities.
Year Founded: 2000
Geographic Focus: Maricopa County
: Florence Leadership Academy
The Florence Leadership Academy creates community involvement among new volunteers through information and education, which leads to service on civic boards and committees. Community members gain knowledge of how their government and community organizations work and how to help make changes in areas such as education, economic development, and community development. The program covers local, regional, and state issues, preparing graduates for civic participation locally and throughout the state.
Year Founded: 2000
Geographic Focus: Florence
: University of Arizona National Collegiate Leadership Conference
The National Collegiate Leadership Conference gathers students and leaders from diverse backgrounds to learn leadership skills, cultivate social responsibility, break down leadership barriers, and to adopt leadership as a way of life. The student-run, nonprofit organization's primary conference is a three-day event held at the University of Arizona. Activities include: workshops; service projects throughout Tucson; teambuilding activities; networking; motivational and keynote speakers; and leadership-enrichment certification. Participants are required to complete a service project.
Year Founded: 1988
Geographic Focus: Primarily Pima County (All college students are welcome, although University of Arizona students are priority clients)
: Arizona State University Bob Ramsey Executive Education
Bob Ramsey Executive Education Program provides professional development and leadership programs for people and organizations that serve the public. Public managers, agency executives, tribal managers and elected officials participate in customized training and formal certification programs in public administration, leadership, and management.
Year Founded: 1981
Geographic Focus: Statewide (primarily)
: Verde Valley Leadership
Verde Valley Leadership, a 501(c)(3) organization, provides personal and professional growth opportunities through development of leadership skills, community awareness and diverse, influential networks.
There are four basic components creating the program structure during the first year:
1. Issue Days
2 Field Trips
3. Shadow Day
4. Program Support Activities
Graduation is earned as a result from activities carried out during the first year of the program. During the second year of the program, those having graduated take part in the continuing operation and activities in the upcoming year.
Year Founded: 2006
Geographic Focus: Verde Valley (Camp Verde, Clarkdale, Jerome, Sedona, Cornville, Beaver Creek, etc.)
: Student Leadership Organization of Central Arizona College (SLOCAC)
The Student Leadership Organization provides students with civic education and opportunities for growth in leadership and community stewardship. The organization supplies a foundation to students at Central Arizona College for achieving leadership skills and potential leadership roles within the college and community. The branches of the Student Leadership Organization are located at Central Arizona College's campuses, Signal Peak, Superstition Mountain, and Aravaipa. The organization acts as the voice of the student body of Central Arizona College and is a conduit between the student body and the college administration. Students engage in activities, retreats, leadership training, special events and service-learning projects. Service-learning projects allow students to take part in community service while blending with the academic curriculum.
Year Founded: SLOCAC started in 2005; the organization before this was called Central Arizona College Student Government.
Geographic Focus: Signal Peak Campus, Superstition Mountain Campus, and Aravaipa Campus and surrounding communities
: Mesa Leadership Training and Development Program
Mesa Leadership Training and Development Program is presented by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and Business in Education Foundation. The program cultivates leadership through exposure to community issues and interaction with other program participants to exchange ideas and share experiences. Civic responsibility and stewardship, along with increases in community service and neighborhood renewal, are the goals of this leadership-education endeavor. Participants learn about Mesa and cultivate leadership skills. Class topics include: Mesa government; responsible growth and development; advocacy; the justice system; education; social services; and arts, culture, and recreation. Community leaders and program graduates comprise most of the presenters for the leadership training. Tours and shadowing opportunities supplement workshop participation.
Year Founded: 1981
Geographic Focus: Mesa
: Arizona Humanities Council: Project Civil Discourse
Project Civil Discourse is a statewide initiative of the Arizona Humanities Council to promote and present respectful dialogue on critical public issues. Programs promote public understanding, critical thinking, and civic participation.
Year Founded: Project Civil Discourse Program in 2008; Arizona Humanities Council in 1973
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Chandler Leadership Institute
Chandler Leadership Institute prepares future community leaders to meet the challenges of community service through an educational program designed to allow participants to learn team-building and leadership skills. The Chandler Leadership Institute includes presentations on critical community issues facing Chandler, tours, and other events. Topics include: education; social services; transportation/environment; government; health; media; public safety; life/leisure; and business/industry.
Year Founded: 1983
Geographic Focus: Chandler
: Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation: American Humanics
ASU boasts the #1 nationally ranked American Humanics Program, providing an intensive 30 credit hour program for undergraduate students interested in developing leadership and management skills for the nonprofit sector. Students may enroll in this national competency-based certificate program while pursuing any major at the university. A hallmark of the program is the co-curricular, experiential, component of AH that
complements in-classroom learning.
Year Founded: 1980
Geographic Focus: Students enrolled at any ASU campus
: Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation: Public Allies Arizona
An AmeriCorps program, Public Allies identifies young people with a passion for making a difference and teaches them to turn that passion into a career through its 10-month apprenticeship program. Allies apprentice at Phoenix-area nonprofit organizations and are paid a monthly stipend. Allies also participate in leadership development, which is delivered by community leaders, practitioners, and educators. During training, students take part in bi-weekly skill training and leadership-development seminars and receive feedback, opportunities for reflection, and personal coaching. The ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation sponsors Public Allies in metro Phoenix. .
Year Founded: 2006
Geographic Focus: Greater Phoenix
: The Leadership Centre
The Leadership Centre's educational programs--Community Leadership Classes, and Mediation Training and Workshops--provide assistance and build awareness among Arizona residents, neighborhoods, HOAs, and community associations. The Centre was initiated through a collaboration between the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Family Community Leadership program, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, the Community Associations Institute and the Town of Gilbert. Many program components are geared towards topics of interest to homeowners associations, neighborhoods, and communities.
Year Founded: 1996
Geographic Focus: Statewide and Local Communities - The City of Apache Junction, The City of Chandler, The Town of Gilbert, The City of Mesa, The Town of Queen Creek, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Mesa Community College
: Black Board of Directors Project
The Black Board of Directors Project annually recruits 25-30 mid-to-senior-level professionals to participate in an advanced leadership program. The effort began in 1984 to fill the void of blacks and others on corporate, charitable, and public-policymaking boards and commissions at the local, state, and national levels. Members' profiles are published in a directory that is widely circulated throughout Arizona, including to corporate chief executive officers, high-level government officials, the local and national press, and charitable organizations.
Year Founded: 1984
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) of Arizona
HOBY, a worldwide youth-leadership program founded in 1958 by actor Hugh O'Brian, assists young people in becoming positive catalysts for change in school, the workplace, and the community. HOBY's programs improve young people's skills in critical thinking, leadership, and goal-setting, and stress the importance of service to their community. HOBY seminars are conducted throughout the United States. HOBY Arizona hosts an annual four day summer leadership summit at the Arizona State University Tempe campus. Participants are made up of one sophomore representative from each Arizona public and private high school. Each school selects their HOBY representative. The seminar develops leadership in the areas of civics, free enterprise, and volunteerism through panel discussions and mock legislative, business, and judicial proceedings. Many of the HOBY volunteers who run seminars are alumni.
Year Founded: Parent HOBY organization founded in 1958; HOBY Arizona affiliate active since 1978
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: City of Avondale, Citizen Leadership Academy
The Avondale Citizen Leadership Academy is sponsored by the City of Avondale to foster civic leadership and citizen participation. It seeks to prepare Avondale residents and business owners to become active in the community by informing them about how the city operates and how they can contribute to its success. The program includes a series of workshops on such topics as budget and finance; keeping Avondale informed; building strong neighborhoods; transit; courts; developing Avondale; roads, water, and waste; public safety; and quality of life.
In 2011, the City of Avondale also developed a new civic-engagement program for its residents, the Avondale Legislative Link (ALL). This free program helps residents increase their knowledge about state-wide policy and the Arizona Legislature. The program begins each January, along with the legislative session, with an overview of how the Arizona State Legislative session works; how a bill becomes a law; how to track issues under discussion; and how to analyze a bill. Regular email updates keep residents informed on the issues.
Year Founded: 2000 with a standalone program starting in 2006 and ALL founded in 2011.
Geographic Focus: Avondale
: Flagstaff Leadership Program
Flagstaff Leadership Program (FLP) uses leadership training to inform Flagstaff residents about how their government works, issues facing the city, and how to develop solutions. Through FLP training classes, members will become more effective citizens and leaders within the Flagstaff community. FLP begins in September with an average of 25 individuals in the program. Leadership Education Days are one full day each month for nine months. Program topics include, among others: sustainable communities; health and human services; diversity and culture; and economic development. Speakers are members of city government, business leaders, university faculty, and nonprofit-organization leaders.
Year Founded: 1990
Geographic Focus: Flagstaff
: Mentoring All Americans for Leadership
Mentoring All Americans for Leadership is sponsored by the YMCA to provide a leadership program with three components: teaching life skills, career enhancement, and peer coaching and mentoring. MAAFL partners with the YMCA Achieving College Access Program to bring the Career Development Leadership Program to students in grades 6-12. The program motivates students for postsecondary education through career clusters; tutoring; mentoring; college tours; community projects; and leadership activities. MAAFL also partners with St. Mary's Food Bank Community Kitchen to provide food service and life-skill training to low-income adults. "Cultivating the Leader Within" is provided regularly to reach every adult who graduates from the St. Mary's Food Bank Community Kitchen training program.
Year Founded: 2005
Geographic Focus: Greater Phoenix
: Apache Junction Citizen Leadership Institute
The Apache Junction Citizen Leadership Institute informs community members about the city's functions through a nine-session program. It seeks to expand the pool of residents prepared to serve on a city board or commission. Class topics include such areas as planning and zoning; economic and community development; and service delivery. The program is open to any Apache Junction resident or non-community members who already serve on a board or commission.
Year Founded: 1998
Geographic Focus: Apache Junction
: Greater Tucson Leadership
Greater Tucson Leadership provides leadership education, community development, and civic engagement. Its goals are to to help current and emerging regional leaders:
- understand and engage in relevant community and regional issues;
- connect and engage with political, community, and cultural leaders;
- develop and implement community and individual leadership practices.
GTL provides a platform to create deeper understanding of community and critical issues; encourages discussion, debate, and problem-solving; cultivates appreciation for differing perspectives; and inspires leadership at all levels of the community.
Its curriculum is comprised of experiential/field components, social service components, and leadership practice components. The ten-month program (August-June) is held once a month during work hours (7:30 am to 4:30 pm) on the second Friday of the month. Included in the program are an Orientation/Retreat, a mid-program Leadership Retreat and a Graduation Ceremony.
Year Founded: 1980
Geographic Focus: Greater Tucson
: Project CENTRL (Center for Rural Leadership)
Project CENTRL assists highly motivated leaders to become more effective and responsive leaders in rural Arizona. Project CENTRL is a 501 (c)(3) organization operating in partnership with the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension. The CENTRL experience includes a series of 12, three-day seminars in Arizona, a five-day international study tour at the end of the first year, and culminates with an eight-day national seminar in Washington D. C. Participants are required to complete a community project or internship before graduation. Seminar topics include: fundamentals of leadership; effective communications; community and economic development; managing natural resources; focus on social issues; border, immigration, labor, and food-supply dynamics; and state and national public-policy formation. The CENTRL experience is all about recognizing challenges, exploring opportunities, and making a difference in agriculture and rural Arizona. An active Alumni Council and quarterly regional meetings help to strengthen CENTRL's network and vision of inspiring a life long journey of leadership.
Year Founded: 1982
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: City of Casa Grande Leadership Academy
The Community Leadership Training program educates citizens on how their local government works. The program seeks to recruit and inform new volunteers to expand the city's pool of participants for nonprofit boards, committees, and councils. The Casa Grande Leadership Academy consists of eight sessions over 13 weeks. The academy content is a focused, comprehensive look at the city and its operations. Classes include approximately 25 Casa Grande residents. The City of Casa Grande partners with the Arizona Public Service Company as sponsors of the event.
Year Founded: 2003
Geographic Focus: Casa Grande
: Leadership West, Inc.
Leadership West Inc. provides education and training to West Valley residents so that they may participate in civic activities as they relate to critical issues facing the region, such as education; transportation; arts and culture; the environment; and regionalism. This year-long training program cultivates leadership for the West Valley region. Issue Days form the core of the program, including education; health, human services, and safety; sports and leisure; infrastructure; sustainability; business and media; arts and culture; and government. Class teams also complete projects over the nine-month program. Many of these projects have received awards, such as WESTMARC's Best of the West, while others, such as Living In Another Kid's Shoes, have been sustained over years. Teams address a need in the community and the effort allows individuals to practice leadership skills while addressing a local issue. A panel of community leaders evaluates the projects. During Synthesis Day, participants present their projects to the board, alumni, and guests.
Year Founded: 1993
Geographic Focus: West Valley region
: Tempe Leadership
Tempe Leadership educates program participants on the strengths, needs, and challenges facing Tempe. The organization currently consists of a nine-month adult program and a youth program, plus a volunteer-engagement program, Tempe Cares. Program curriculum includes two issue days per month, where participants learn about education; business; government; environment and transportation; human services; media; crime and justice; and higher learning in the Tempe community. Class members also shadow a community leader of their own choosing and work on a class project. The class is responsible for working on the project outside of class time, developing project budgets, and conducting any necessary fundraising.
Year Founded: 1985
Geographic Focus: Tempe
: Gilbert Leadership at Gilbert Chamber of Commerce
Gilbert Leadership was developed by the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce to promote civic leadership and broaden the skills of current and future town leaders. The program provides knowledge to effect change and broaden citizen involvement with the town government and community programs and critical needs. The program is nine months long. Community leaders develop and present the classes. Community tours allow for first-hand experience with Gilbert's residents, businesses, and institutions.
Year Founded: 1992
Geographic Focus: Gilbert
: Pima Community College Desert Vista Campus: Pima Leadership Institute
Pima Leadership Institute provides opportunities for enhancement in the areas of diversity, service, integrity, and excellence and allows students in general interest, direct-work, and transfer programs to gain a leadership experience that meets their individual needs. Workshops and retreats are offered at multiple times and at different campuses, accommodating different schedules and availability.
Year Founded: 2002
Geographic Focus: Pima County
: Scottsdale Leadership, Inc.
Scottsdale Leadership informs, inspires, and empowers leaders to champion and strengthen the interests of the community. Its nine-month interactive Core Program informs participants about aspects of the Scottsdale community and the critical role community leaders can play in affecting change. Leadership skill modules and a community-service project are included. Applications are due each May; full-day educational programs are held approximately twice a month from September through early May. Programs for alumni include continuing-education events, a leadership-award banquet, and networking opportunities.
Year Founded: 1987
Geographic Focus: Scottsdale
: Valley Leadership Corporation
Valley Leadership works to enhance the abilities of individuals to serve and strengthen our communities and inspire leaders to serve. Valley Leadership sponsors its flagship Leadership Institute to inform class members on critical issues and engage them in public and private institutions and organizations throughout the metro area. Valley Teen Leadership, Community Connections, Man and Woman of the Year, and alumni programs are also provided.
Year Founded: 1978
Geographical Focus: Greater Phoenix
: Southern Arizona Leadership Council
SALC brings together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and the quality of life in greater Tucson (and throughout Arizona) and to attract and retain high quality, high wage jobs. It focuses its attention and resources where it can most contribute to helping solve major problems or to take advantage of significant opportunities, and it operates from the belief that a successful community relies and builds upon all of its resources--civic leaders, government officials, engaged citizens and business officials. SALC works with other organizations in an effort to bring collaborative leadership to improving the Tucson region. Topics of particular interest to SALC include: education, transportation, water, healthcare, strategic initiatives, and bioscience.
Year Founded: 1997
Geographic Focus: Greater Tucson
: Monsignor Edward J. Ryle Fund
The Monsignor Edward J. Ryle Fund was founded to honor the memory and extend the legacy of Msgr. Ryle, who provided a lifetime of service to the people of Phoenix and the state of Arizona, especially the most vulnerable and the disenfranchised. The Fund’s mission is to continue Msgr. Ryle’s work through stimulating scholarly dialogue around public policy issues affecting the common good in Arizona. As part of its work, the Ryle Fund has established the Faith Leaders seminar series. The seminars permit faith leaders to explore and understand Arizona’s social justice public policy issues through education and collaboration. The Fund also provides community grants, as well as scholarships for faith-based, public-policy studies at Seattle University.
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Peoria Leadership Institute
Peoria Leadership Institute strengthens and promotes community leadership and civic involvement through increasing knowledge about city government. It provides citizens with the skills necessary to seek public office and become effective members of the community. Attendees learn about the city's governmental structure; budget and finance; public works; and utility, police, and fire operations. Classes are led by city of Peoria management staff and others.
Year Founded: 2005
Geographic Focus: Peoria
: University of Arizona Southwest Leadership Program
The Southwest Leadership Program helps develop leadership skills and build professional networks among public and nonprofit administrators. The program's mission is to foster new capabilities and insights that enable participants to more efficiently and effectively run their organizations. The program's core curriculum includes: leadership and team-building; negotiation; human-resource management; communication; strategy; ethics; and crisis management.
Year Founded: 1992
Geographic Focus: Statewide (and national)
: Arizona School Boards Association Leadership Development
Arizona School Boards Association Leadership Development promotes board member effectiveness through leadership training; educational opportunities; board-superintendent resources; job opportunities and executive searches; and awards and honors.
Year Founded: 1975
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Arizona State University Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Institute
Each summer, the Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Institute provides a week-long leadership-training program at the Arizona State University campus for high-school sophomores and juniors. Participants take part in leadership and college-going workshops and a service-learning project. The program covers individual futures; community issues; civic engagement; leadership development; and educational resources. The goal of the program is to help students participate fully in academic, civic, economic, and cultural life. The ASU Office of Public Affairs/Community Development and Cesar E. Chavez Programs sponsor the effort for 60 students who are chosen based on demonstration of leadership in community/school involvement; academic achievement; and the quality of a personal statement.
Year Founded: 1995
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Yuma Leadership, Inc.
Yuma Leadership provides high-school juniors from seven Yuma County high schools with civic-leadership training and an understanding of the workings of their local government and community. Through a series of nine theme days, plus a retreat, students gain leadership skills to apply in their schools and community. Government leaders, business professionals, and nonprofit leaders present community and leadership topics and organize field trips. The program is free of charge for students.
Year Founded: 1991
Geographic Focus: Yuma County and Quechan Reservation High School
: Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education
The State Bar of Arizona created the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education in 1978, with the mission of promoting access to justice for all Arizonans. The Foundation strives to fulfill this mission by preparing Arizona youth for civic responsibility and providing access to legal services for all Arizonans.
A few of the Foundation’s programs that foster youth civic engagement and competency include:
*Kids Voting AZ
*Project Citizen and We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution
*Mock Trial
*Connecting with Classrooms (judges & attorneys visit the classroom with prepared learning activities)
*lawforkids.org
*I-Civic-It
Another resource for educators is the Law Related Education K-12 Library with hundreds of books, DVDs, and activities available free for use by any educator. Additionally, through the provision of technical and financial assistance to probation and resource officers; teachers and administrators; private attorneys and judges, and legal service attorneys and advocates, the Foundation works to provide knowledge and access to the justice systems for all Arizonans.
Year Founded: 1978
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: University of Arizona Blue Chip Program
The Arizona Blue Chip Program helps students grow into leaders who make a difference. The program's four core values are integrity, diversity, service, and excellence. The organization believes that all students can learn to be leaders, and that leadership is a relational process as opposed to a positional process.
Year Founded: 1998
Geographical Focus: Pima County (Open to students attending the University of Arizona or Pima Community College)
: Arizona Healthcare Leadership Academy
The Arizona Healthcare Leadership Academy assists hospitals and other health care organizations in achieving optimum work environments and quality patient care through contemporary leadership training provided to front-line and middle managers in health care settings.
Year Founded: 2004
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Chairman's Leadership Forum
The Chairman's Leadership Forum addresses the leadership needs of key state legislators by providing issue education, leadership training, negotiation skills, and consensus-building education. Programs are open to House and Senate Leadership, House and Senate Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs across the country. Three meetings are conducted per year, covering basic and advanced skills that lead to productive policymaking. Legislative case studies are presented and discussed, allowing legislators to practice and perfect leadership techniques.
Year Founded: 2008
Geographic Focus: national
: Children's Action Alliance: CAA Leadership Academy
A program of the Children's Action Alliance, the academy educates and builds leadership capacity to enable graduates to be strong child advocates, effective communicators, and informed decisionmakers. The program includes seven sessions over three months. This program is open to Arizonans who want to advocate for children and learn how to address problems facing youth in their communities. Class topics include effective communication skills; meeting facilitation; working with elected officials; and identifying goals.
Year Founded: 2009
Geographic Focus: Arizona
: Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation: Generation Next Nonprofit Leadership Academy
The Generation Next Nonprofit Leadership Academy is a cohort of the Valley's top emerging nonprofit leaders, selected through a competitive process, to participate in a program that provides them the knowledge and tools needed to take on leadership roles within the nonprofit community. This 9-month program is comprised of best practice approaches to leading and managing nonprofits, from renowned professors and practitioner instructors at ASU as well as established nonprofit leaders from organizations that engage with the ASU Lodestar Center.
Year Founded: 2008
Geographic Focus: Statewide
: Be a Leader Foundation
The Be a Leader Foundation designs programs that provide a positive learning environment and college focus for each participant to develop their high-school and college educational plans. The Foundation works directly with middle-school and high-school students in primarily inner-city schools to engage them in the active development of their self esteem, leadership skills, and long-term preparation of their plans. Selected programs include Be A Leader Institute Elementary for 7th-grade students; the Valedictorian Club for 8th-grade students; Be A Leader Institute for high-school students; Be A Leader clubs; and college summer internships.
Year Founded: 2002
Geographic Focus: Statewide (programs are currently only in Maricopa County, with intent to expand to other communities)
: Havasu Leadership Development Programs Sponsored by the Lake Havasu City Chamber of Commerce
The Havasu Leadership Development Program fosters civic commitment and trains individuals to assume leadership roles within the Lake Havasu community. The Lake Havasu Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors a Leadership Development program and an Advanced Leadership Development program, which is open to HLD completers and graduates of similar programs. Presenters and trainers for the program are professionals from the greater Havasu business community. The program is delivered through monthly sessions. Participants come from all sectors of the Havasu business community.
Year Founded: 1970
Greater Lake Havasu
: International Sonoran Desert Alliance
ISDA is a non-profit corporation founded in 1993 and governed by a board of directors representing the indigenous and non-indigenous populations of the U.S. and Mexico.
We are a group of concerned people from all walks of life who have joined forces to:
- promote the concept and practice of conservation throughout the bio region;
- provide education in ways of protecting and respecting valuable biological and cultural resources and traditions;
- develop creative and sustainable solutions to critical local issues such as housing and economic development;
- and provide practical opportunities for individual and community action.
ISDA also hosts public meetings that provide opportunity for broad community participation, and seeks input from a wide cross-section of voices and cultures.
At our board meetings we conduct business in three languages-English, Spanish, and O'odham, and we prepare our literature, from our books to our leaflets and our website, bilingually.
Year Founded: 1993
Geographic Focus: Sonoran Desert
: Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation: Nonprofit Management Institute
Lodestar's Nonprofit Managent Institute (NMI) fills a unique educational niche for leaders who are currently working within or want to be involved in the nonprofit sector. Students share a common interest in seeking high-quality, immediately usable management knowledge and tools in an adult-learning environment. The comprehensive certificate program targets the key skills and knowledge needed to successfully manage and lead a nonprofit organization.
Year Founded: 1994
Geographic Focus: Valley and online
