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What it is

Leadership United is a comprehensive community leadership and board development program of United Way of Central Indiana offered each year from September through May. During the nine-month term, participants commit to approximately 10 business days of training, or roughly one day per month. That translates to an impressive 75 hours of leadership and board development training.

Areas of Concentration

• Leadership development retreats: Participate in full-day learning experiences centered around interactive activities, group problem solving, team building and evaluation.
• Community issues workshops: Discuss community issues in Central Indiana relevant to United Way’s areas of impact: Education, Income, Health and Basic Needs.
• Board education: Learn from experts in the field of leadership and board development, then serve as an intern for a local nonprofit board.

How You Can Benefit

• Gain perspective about our community, its most urgent areas of need, and the effective ways the nonprofit sector, including United Way, is helping.
• Develop the skills to become an effective nonprofit board member with the capacity to affect future outcomes and make meaningful, lasting change in Central Indiana.
• Learn about the mission and impact of United Way and form a personal relationship with United Way of Central Indiana.
  
  
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What it is

The Nonprofit Training Center helps nonprofit organizations in Central Indiana learn how to govern and manage themselves effectively. We want ALL our community residents' needs to be met, so we make our NTC services available to ANY nonprofit organization in Central Indiana.

How it Helps

The NTC provides practical, affordable training and technical assistance through:

• Workshops customized for individual organization needs
• Short- and long-term technical assistance consulting
• Referrals to reliable and ethical consultants
• Recommended articles, books and websites

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What it is

Immersive Learning Experiences are powerful, experiential opportunities designed to deepen our understanding of complex issues that exist in our local community. By participating in an immersive learning experience, community members walk in the shoes of a neighbor, a fellow citizen struggling for self-sufficiency and a better life. Our programs focus on education about the issue at a local level, facing the issue through a virtual experience and then debriefing as a group to share our perspectives with others.

Immersive Learning Experiences

• Poverty Simulations: Learn how to engage in reducing poverty in your local community and increase your understanding of the dynamics of poverty. Experience, on a small scale, the struggle for self-sufficiency many people in Central Indiana face.
• Community Conversations: What It’s Like to Be Me: Build empathy, learn more about your colleagues, gain knowledge about diversity – and find out that there's more that unites us than divides us!
• Re-entry Simulations: Experience what life would be like for an individual returning to the community after a period of incarceration and learn how you can help.

How You (or your company) Can Benefit

• Gain perspective about our community, its most urgent areas of need, and the effective ways the nonprofit sector, including United Way, is helping.
• Develops deeper understanding and helps initiate discussion of daily struggles for those living in challenging circumstances.
• When we explore our own behavior we are better able to create change through advocacy, giving, volunteering and generating conversations that can transform systems.

Corporate Benefits

• Corporate Social Responsibility activity that is experiential and meaningful
• Unique team-building experience -- Helps to develop empathy among participants
• Diversity and inclusion training
• Community engagement opportunity

What it is

Youth Leadership United is meant to expand opportunities for young people to participate as community planners and decision makers within youth-serving and other nonprofit organizations and help United Way's youth-serving agencies and other nonprofits achieve age diversity on their boards and committees.

How it Helps

• Develop and nurture the skills of a diverse group of potential community leaders, through a variety of training activities that focus on exploring leadership styles and skills.
• Increase young leaders' knowledge and understanding of the community, in particular the nonprofit sector.
• To develop a pool of young leaders, representing a six-county area, who have the qualifications and confidence to serve successfully on nonprofit boards and committees.
• To create a strong and diverse base of future leaders for Central Indiana.

What you can do

There is no cost to apply. If accepted to the program, a $100 fee will be charged per participant. A recommendation letter is required in order to submit your application (Who should you ask for a recommendation letter and how should you ask them? Here are some tips!). If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact celeste.gellenbeck@uwci.org