Leadership
Community leadership
Leadership is crucial to civic muscle because it helps communities move from intention to action—especially in times of complexity, conflict, or change. Leadership activates, guides, and sustains the collective work that civic muscle requires to make places strong.
Programs
Youth Empowerment Program
Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) is a cohort for teens in high school that focuses on learning leadership skills, public speaking, and community engagement.
Neighborhood Leadership Fellows
The mission of Neighborhood Leadership Fellows (NLF) is to increase and amplify the voices of North St. Louis City and County residents at the civic decision-making tables in order to produce more equitable regional policies for neighborhoods.
Neighborhood Leadership Academy
The Neighborhood Leadership Academy (NLA) provides in-depth and multifaceted leadership training that emphasizes community building principles and strategies, project planning, organizational leadership and management practices, and personal leadership skills.
