Community Leadership Courses

About this learning path...

Community leadership is the capacity to inspire external partners, collaborators, and stakeholders to support and advance your mission.

Full participation in this certificate is applicable for 3 points in Category 1.B Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

What You Will Learn

The differences between collective impact and community leadership.

Impact chains, outcomes pathways, and the theory of change model.

Three aspects of leadership critical to our nonprofit work, and the differences between direct and indirect impact.

Setting goals as a means of leading social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and social innovation initiatives.

How continual evaluation ensures ethical practice in our leadership.

The role that positional authority plays in community leadership.

Using your "intended impact statement" to focus your approach to community leadership across the five phases typical to a community leadership initiative.

How community leadership can build sustainable endeavors across strategy, culture, operations, their people, and their business model.

Who is this learning path for?

This learning path is well-suited for those who have been in the nonprofit sector or their organization for over a year, but is also very energizing for those newer to their role or the sector! With an emphasis on the Theory of Change model, this series explores how our nonprofits operate at their best as experts within the missions that they pursue.

This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies: