Our Value Proposition
Growing Canada’s Community Leaders
We are an expanding national network of more than 20 community leadership development programs, connected to an international network of over 1500 programs in the United States, the European Union and in Australia.Guiding Principle
Collaborative leadership is an essential element of resilient communities.
o To facilitate innovative approaches to community leadership development
o Diversity and Inclusion
o Life-long, action-oriented learning
Our Purpose
o To connect existing and emerging community leadership development programso To facilitate innovative approaches to community leadership development
We Value
o Citizen participation in the social and political life of their communitieso Diversity and Inclusion
o Life-long, action-oriented learning
We believe our Canadian communities will be strong and sustainable if the network advances community leadership knowledge creation and the sharing of best practices
o embraces and promotes distributed leadership
o collaborates, intentionally and intensively
o contributes our distinctive qualities and backgrounds
o acts as a catalyst for community development
o Engagement of active citizenship through community-focused experiential learning
o Equality of opportunity to lead
o Diversity and cross-pollination among the private, public and voluntary sectors and other
o collaborates, intentionally and intensively
o contributes our distinctive qualities and backgrounds
o acts as a catalyst for community development
We are unique in that we seed and nourish
o Succession planning for community leadershipo Engagement of active citizenship through community-focused experiential learning
o Equality of opportunity to lead
o Diversity and cross-pollination among the private, public and voluntary sectors and other
community interests