From the desk of Claudia Owens

January has been a busy start to the new year with Legacy Leaders giving support to various CLC committees, CLC events, giving me support for a new Legacy Leader video, topics for upcoming podcast and identifying how to best serve the community. Legacy Leaders is continuing to find its way and establish itself as a force for civic change.

Legacy Leaders the following are opportunities to volunteer and participate:
Accelerate: Citizens Make Change 2023 is looking for Legacy Leader Volunteers to help out the night of the event on Thursday, February 23rd between 4:30pm and 8:30pm. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Angela O’Donnell at aodonnell@cleveleads.org.
 
You can also be involved with Accelerate by:
  • Offering your advice to thirty-two people with incredible ideas to transform our community
  • Helping connect them to resources
  • Attending the event on February 23rd to help choose the winner (register here)
The event, a “shark tank” style competition for civic ideas to make our community better for all, will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2023, from 4:30 to 8:30 pm at the Huntington Convention Center downtown. To learn more or to support Accelerate, contact Maeve Frey at (440) 749-1283 or mdoley@cleveleads.org.
Podcast Series 2023 - Is there an issue or topic or event you’d like to know more about or a person you’d like to meet and learn from? Share those with me as we look to build a podcast topics and a learning series in 2023 based on the interests of Legacy Leaders! We hope to use these series to enhance your understanding of the community and identify ways to be more involved and collaborate together. Email me your ideas or your interest to record a podcast topic at cowens@cleveleads.org.
We are partnering with The Dayton Foundation Encore program to create a state-wide dialogue aimed at changing the conversation and language around the 50+ community to identify safe recreational walking, jogging, and biking trails throughout the state to share when traveling statewide. The vision for this project is a collaborative effort to ensure safe mobility and promote health. The "end" product could be a guide to “Age-Friendly outdoor recreational trails throughout the 71 S Corridor.” We are also planning podcast on “Let’s Get Moving, Biking, Walking.”
If these activities sound of interest to you and you would like to join in, please contact me cowens@cleveleads.org or 216-650-3312. 
Claudia
Senior Fellow
(216) 650-3312
February 1, 2023, applications will open for the ALI Class of 2024. As a Legacy Leaders we ask for your participation in the eight month program called Advanced Leadership Institute: Inspired by the Legacy of Carl and Louis Stokes. This program covers the five social concerns Carl Stokes used as his platform and to shape his Cleveland Now agenda. The areas are Health, Education, Workforce, Public Safety, and Housing.

Legacy Leaders are asked to participate in at least four (4) of the eight (8) sessions. Legacy Leaders mentor two cohorts within the program: Jr. Fellows from Cuyahoga Community College’s Mandel Scholars Academy and Stokes Fellows (individuals from the area ranging in age and profession).

ALI 2024 begins October 6, 2023, with an opening retreat.

I hope you will be able to join us. ALI 2024 will focus on "How can we better the five policies through a lens of the impact it has on people’s lives in the various neighborhoods?" 

Let me know if I can be helpful to you in learning more about Advanced Leadership Institute, or if you know someone who should apply to Advanced Leadership Institute Class of 2024. 
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