Neighborhood Leadership

The Neighborhood Leadership program provides training, support and funding for projects that make a difference in your community.

Neighborhood leaders from previous cohorts in Edgerton Park, New Haven, 2018. Credit: Ian Christmann

2024 Program ReLaunch

Attend Our Informational Session: August 1, 2024

The Neighborhood Leadership Program is a networking, skill building and grant program for resident leaders of New Haven, West Haven, East Haven or Hamden. After a year-long pause for evaluation, we are excited to say that the program is back and better than ever! Use the button below to register now to attend our Informational Session on August 1, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. and learn more.
 

The Neighborhood Leadership Program is an eight-month (September - April) training and grant program that supports community leaders in imagining, developing, testing and realizing projects which build community and provide positive outcomes in New Haven, East Haven, West Haven and Hamden.

Participants engage in three full-day sessions of leadership training in the fall of 2024, including generating a pilot learning exercise. In early spring 2025, this is followed by further support and training in planning and budgeting for their community projects. After completing the training and planning stages of the program, participants are exclusively eligible to apply for a grant of up to $3,000 to carry out their community-based projects.
  
If you have a commitment to making a positive difference through resident engagement, are eager to build your skills and capacity to increase your impact, and want to engage with other leaders in learning, practice and project execution, then YOU should apply to this program!

View the 2024-25 Program Schedule and Outline:

Neighborhood Leaders Making a Difference

Neighborhood Leader - Kathy Riegelmann

“When you’re physically strong, you’re mentally and emotionally strong. Being a strong female, you just feel so empowered.”

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Neighborhood Leader - Alice Kosowsky

“I have always been an outsider, individualistic expert type. The program helped me develop skills that I had never developed before - talking to people and learning how to lead from behind.”

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Neighborhood Leader - Gustavo Requena Santos

“To me, nature always was a place to be curious.”

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Email Lee Cruz or call him at 203-668-7074.