Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Leadership Program®

The Center for Leadership Innovation conducts two unique leadership development programs for executive directors and emerging leaders. We strive to bring the most relevant experts to engage program participants regarding innovative ideas and approaches to achieving their missions and sustaining their organizations.

The Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Leadership Program® (NELP) is designed to address the needs of leaders engaged in building healthy communities.  Its purpose is to:

  • Invest in solving America’s most vexing social problems by empowering the leaders of results driven, diverse organizations—providing them with cutting-edge professional development and peer consulting opportunities.
  • Promote the successful application of high impact strategies presented and discussed during the program

Participants represent organizations in fields such as affordable housing, community and economic development, arts and culture, healthcare, workforce development, and education that together serve millions of people across the country.

Over 1100 executive directors and their emerging leaders representing nearly 800 high-performing nonprofits have graduated from the Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Leadership Program®. 

 

Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Leadership Program® 

2012 Program Schedule

  • February 20-24, 2012, Houston, TX

  • April 16-20, 2012, Chicago, IL   

  • May 14-19, 2012, San Francisco, CA

  • October 15-19, 2012, Charlotte, NC Bank of America Logo
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    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.

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    "The leadership program inspired us to partner with a place-based organization to develop a multi-faceted community redevelopment plan for an impoverished neighborhood in Delaware. Together we hope to provide enriched rental housing, employment, community organizing, healthcare, and other empowering services to families with incomes below 30% of the median."