Applications are live for 2025-2026 Emerging Leaders
June 6, 2025 to August 15, 2025
Across southeastern Louisiana – throughout our cities, towns, and parishes – passionate leaders are ready to elevate their skills, perspectives, and networks to become the region’s next nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders. Emerging Leaders provides an opportunity for those leaders to level up their leadership.
Emerging Leaders is a leadership development program aimed at creating a pipeline of senior and executive leadership in the nonprofit sector of southeast Louisiana. This program equips participants with the technical and relationship skills, as well as the critical systems-level thinking, necessary to lead strong, healthy, and impactful nonprofits. Program components allow participants to explore foundational and innovative practices in:
• Organizational finance;
• Team and board management;
• Fundraising and fund development;
• Network-building; and
• Organizational sustainability and care.
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