Everyday Leaders
Using a structured skill-building program, we train community members, leaders, and organizers to strengthen collaboration and equity in their leadership, decision-making, and community engagement practices.
Everyday Leaders
Using a structured skill-building program, we train community members, leaders, and organizers to strengthen collaboration and equity in their leadership, decision-making, and community engagement practices.
Our Approach
Everyday Leaders is an 8-session training program, complemented by additional resources and materials to deepen and support learning between sessions. Through interactive workshops, real-world applications, and guided reflections, participants develop the tools needed to engage communities, lead collectively, and center equity in their work.
Our Approach
Everyday Leaders is an 8-session training program, complemented by additional resources and materials to deepen and support learning between sessions. Through interactive workshops, real-world applications, and guided reflections, participants develop the tools needed to engage communities, lead collectively, and center equity in their work.
Everyday Leaders learn collective leadership skills such as:
- Collective Leadership: Exploring shared power, decision-making, and the values of interdependence in leadership.
- Systems Thinking: Understanding systemic inequities and how leaders can foster more just and inclusive communities.
- Equitable Decision-Making & Accountability: Practicing fair and transparent leadership approaches that prioritize those most impacted.
- Community Engagement & Coalition Building: Learning effective organizing strategies to build trust, transparency, and shared responsibility.
- Using Data for Social Change: Understanding how data can clarify community concerns and inform action planning.
- Self- & Community Care for Leaders: Developing sustainable leadership practices that prioritize well-being and resilience.
Everyday Leaders learn collective leadership skills such as:
- Collective Leadership: Exploring shared power, decision-making, and the values of interdependence in leadership.
- Systems Thinking: Understanding systemic inequities and how leaders can foster more just and inclusive communities.
- Equitable Decision-Making & Accountability: Practicing fair and transparent leadership approaches that prioritize those most impacted.
- Community Engagement & Coalition Building: Learning effective organizing strategies to build trust, transparency, and shared responsibility.
- Using Data for Social Change: Understanding how data can clarify community concerns and inform action planning.
- Self- & Community Care for Leaders: Developing sustainable leadership practices that prioritize well-being and resilience.
Program Highlights
Empowering New Yorkers to Lead Community Change
With The Queens Public Library
Food pantries. Youth development. Environmental justice. Community health. These are just some of the projects that our 2025 cohort of Everyday Leaders are advancing across Queens, NY. Our program brought intergenerational changemakers together to practice equity-focused, collective leadership skills like making fair decisions, building diverse coalitions, and exercising accountability. Since the training, participants have gone on to strengthen civic engagement in the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.
