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Community Leadership

In collaboration with The Ford Family Foundation in Roseburg, Oregon and Rural Development Initiatives, Inc. in Eugene, Oregon, the Sherwood Trust offers a Community Leadership Program. 

This is a skill-based program focused on developing the community leadership capacity of individuals.  The training consists of a structured, 60-hour curriculum that emphasizes an interactive and facilitative style, which draws on the knowledge and skills of the participants as well as the curriculum.

A typical class consists of 20 to 25 individuals ranging from community college students to retired seniors and with varied leadership experience ranging from emerging to seasoned.  Diversity among class participants is a priority.

Each class selects a project to complete within a year, which provides participants a unique opportunity to apply the skills being taught by the curriculum to a real-life situation.  The Sherwood Trust matches up to $10,000 what each class generates in resources to support the class project.

Curriculum concepts include:

• Social capital and community capacity.
• Personality types and leadership styles.
• Community development models.
• Catalytic leadership model.
• Asset mapping.
• Conflict resolution skills and models for group decision-making.
• Communication strategies.
• Fundraising and volunteer recruitment.

Participants are expected to volunteer outside of the class to complete the project.  To see a listing of completed projects by different leadership classes, click here.