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Featured Alumni Stories
View all Alumni Stories>La Casa Norte: More Than Housing...Hope
On any given night there are 25,000 homeless youth on the streets of Illinois, over two-thirds in Chicago. Read more
La Casa Norte: More Than Housing...Hope
On any given night there are 25,000 homeless youth on the streets of Illinois, over two-thirds in Chicago. Read more
Native American Connections: Respecting & Healing a Community
Improving the lives of Native American individuals and families through culturally appropriate behavioral health, affordable housing, and community development services. Read more
Bronx River Alliance: Reclaiming Environment
The mission of the Bronx River Alliance is to serve as a coordinated voice for the river and work in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor and greenway so that they can be healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resources for the communities through which the river flows. Read more
Featured Alumni Videos
View all Alumni Videos>Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (BHNC) works to preserve and enhance the ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity of Bernal Heights and surrounding neighborhoods. Listen to voices of the Bernal Heights community in this video produced in collaboration with San Francisco Neighborhood Centers Together (SFNCT).
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Celena Roldan, Executive Director, Erie Neighborhood House
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What's New...
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HOW LEADERSHIP BECAME A PRIORITY
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) has released a new Leadership Case Study featuring the Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative®. A unique capacity building philanthropic strategy that combines leadership development conducted by TCLI with flexible funding. Download the case study. More> -
DEVELOP LATINO LEADERS!
TCLI recieves multi-year grant from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation to partner with the Arkansas Coalition for Excellence and One Community! Una Communidad. More> -
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- TCLI Creates Results
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Our mission is to develop diverse leaders who envision, initiate and share breakthrough approaches to addressing society’s most challenging social issues.
- TCLI has developed over 17,000 urban and rural leaders who are achieving community-driven social change
- Over 100 public and private sector funders have partnered with TCLI
- Through our partnerships, TCLI has faciliated the delivery of over $125 million in awards and core support grants to hundreds of innovative community organizations
- 64% of our graduates are people of color, and 77% are people of color or women
- 90% of TCLI's alumni report having implemented an innovative approach to addressing a significant problem in their community.
- 90% of our alumni report translating their lessons learned into fiscal success, with their organizations becoming financially stronger by the completion of the program

