Our Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute trains local leaders (Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color, as well as folks from other historically disenfranchised groups) to serve on city, county, metro, and state boards and commissions.
Why? Because boards and commissions are where the common person can help advise government and exercise their own power and agency.
Whether you represent your neighbors, peers, colleagues, or other constituent group, when you sit at the table of a board or commission, you give power to the many others behind you who may not have a voice.
- If you sit on a planning commission, you can affect what decision the city may make with an empty parcel of land in your neighborhood. Will it become a pawn shop, a grocery store, a school, a liquor store, or a gas station?
- If you sit on a state public health board, you can decide which public health issues and diseases may be funded for research.
- If you sit on a county board, you can impact how direct social services are maintained, funded, and executed.
- If you sit on an international board, you can help decide how foreign aid may be deployed in the next conflict zone or humanitarian crisis.
Interested in learning more and joining our next cohort?
Come to our virtual info session on Monday, Nov. 2, 5:30 pm CT!
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