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Community Book Club – Caste

We invite you to join us for the next Community Book Club! Caste; The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is the sixth book in Neighborhood Leadership Institute’s Community Book Club. Dozens of community members have contributed to ongoing dialogue on social justice in previous groups. Now, you can join in for our discussions beginning Tuesday April 6th. The group will convene for eight weeks, with the last session scheduled for May 25th.  Guests will participate in weekly discussions led by NLI facilitator GiGi Elder. Participants should be ready to discuss the Introduction and Chapter One at the first session. Registration is now open. Please contact Michelle Broome at michelle@neighborhoodleadership.org if you have any questions. 

True2U

Connecting with Cleveland’s Future Leaders

In the True2U mentoring program, volunteers  work with small groups of 8th graders in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to help the students consider their strengths and interests, create a vision for their future and weigh their high school and post-secondary options so they can set off with confidence down the path to their future.

Mentors are still needed. Do you remember being in the 8th grade? Did you know who you were and what you were going to be, or did someone help you think it through? Just sharing your story with Cleveland students, and being a steady partner along the journey, will have ripple effects for the students and our city, for years to come.

Schools As Neighborhood Resources:

Building Youth and Families from the Ground Up.

Our flagship program for community engagement, Schools as Neighborhood Resources opens six school buildings for recreation and enrichment programming for all ages.

SNR is the longest-running school-community initiative in Cuyahoga County. It’s a model of school, family and community collaboration that turns schools into community gathering places designed to improve the educational environment and social development opportunities for students and families.

Community Engagement

Building Leaders from the Ground Up

Neighborhood Leadership Institute provides leadership training, resources and development to individuals in Greater Cleveland’s diverse communities. We take pride in elevating an individual’s natural leadership talent. Together we share a common goal—to improve and positively impact our communities through courageous leadership, collective ownership, empowerment, inclusion and accountability.

Neighborhood Leadership Institute partners with agencies and institutions to engage ordinary citizens in change initiatives and to strengthen emerging leaders within their communities with targeted trainings.