Neighborhood Leadership Academy (Univ. of Missouri)

Bringing together a diverse group of up to 20 current or potential neighborhood leaders each year, the University of Missouri-St. Louis's Neighborhood Leadership Academy offers 10 sessions over a four-month period on leadership training that focuses on community building principles, organizational leadership and management practices, and personal leadership skills. Each participant completes a personal leadership development plan and designs a community-building project for their neighborhood.  To date, the program has graduated more than 270 neighborhood leaders.