Programs
The Community Leadership Institute offers several programs which help strengthen communities in South Texas.
Addtional Services
CLI also provides group facilitation services for public and town hall meetings on local community issues. Additionally, CLI provides facilitation for staff and board retreats.
Alumni Services
Alumni Services is a CLI alumni-led initiative holding quarterly networking and continuing education luncheons. The luncheons address the requests from alumni for continuing edcuation sessions such as civic engagement, while providing a forum for discussion and strategy development in addressing current issues. Alumni also exchange resources and information regarding candidate forums, community meetings, board, commission appointments, employment, volunteer opportunities, towh hall meetings, summits and special community events.
Annual Leadership Institute
The Leadership Institute is the core of our programing: an annual, tuition-free program for men and women who live, work or volunteer in low-income neighborhoods in the San Antonio area. The experiential, curriculum-based program promotes a transformational, servant-leader model that builds on individuals’ gifts and passion for improving conditions in their communities. From June through November, CLI participants meet one Saturday a month for classroom instruction. The diverse faculty of community leaders and professionals bring a wealth of resources and connections to the classroom that alumni are able to access after they graduate.
Institute participants practice shared leadership and teamwork by collectively planning and carrying out a project before graduation. They develop budgets and written requests for up to $1,000 in seed money. A significant amount of learning and personal growth occurs through this essential component of CLI. A certificate of completion is awarded at graduation only to those who attend a minimum of five (5) training sessions and participate in the class project. Please see Leadership Institute under Events for more detailed information.
Board of Directors Workshops
Series of workshops on topics related to responsibilities and roles of the board of directors in nonprofit organizations.
Executive Director Leadership Program
The CLI Executive Leadership Training Progam is designed for executive leaders of non-profit organizations in San Antonio.
The CLI Executive Leadership Training Progam is a developmental, leadership training program designed to offer executive leaders skills training to more effectively lead their organizations forward in innovative and responsible ways.
The 10-session program is run over 20 weeks (attendees participate in training once every 2 weeks). The training program caters to 16 participants. The program contents include: Leadership Presence and Visibility; A framework for developing leadership one leadership role at a time; using one's personal influence to create vibrant networks; An emotionally intelligent leadership model; the organization as a Learning and Sustainable Organization; envisioning a creative organizational future.
The leadership training actively creates an action learning peer group within the participant group. Over the course of the training collegial relationships are fostered and actively facilitated by the training. The purpose is to create a safe and trusting learning environment to deal with leaders professional development needs and to build capacity for the participants as they expand their quality community and sociopolitical networks.
Resident Leadership Facilitation Training
In partnership with CFar Consulting, CLI presents the two-day Resident Leadership and Faciliation training to promote resident-led participation in community development. RLF is designed to help participants gain an understanding of the skills needed to lead successful meetings resulting in action for desired outcomes.
Student Alternatives Program, Inc.
CLI designed a program for teachers, counselors and staff of a nonprofit organization operating charter alternative high schools along the border. Counselors and teachers and staff were trained in leadership development as an effort to assist them in designing youth leadership programs for teen in their respective schools.
United Way Leadership Academies
As part of the United Way Education Issue Council Partnership Initiative, CLI helps specialize, coordinate and conduct Leadership Academies for parents in SAISD elementary and middle schools. Based on the CLI's core program model of transformational Servant Leadership, specialized training is developed at the parents' requests for the purpose of developing their leadership skills in increasing parental involvement in schools. This partnership includes the United Way of San Antonio Education Issue Council, Presa Community Center, Family Services Association as an effort to address San Antonio's school drop-out rate.