Tools for leadership

  • Successful Grant Writing101

    Professional Education Development's SUCCESSFUL GRANT WRITING 101 course is designed for beginners looking for a thorough introduction and a refresher course that will strengthen grant acquisition skills. It is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing with an instructor who is an expert in the field. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. Participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a competent understanding of the essential factors. After completion of the course, participants will be able to determine whether or not a program gets funded. The course includes completion of interactive exercises and activities with an expert in the field. Overall, this course will create professional grant proposal writers who will achieve results.

  • Reynolds Fellowships in Social Entrepreneurship

    The NYU Reynolds Program is seeking pattern breaking visionaries in all feilds of study who are interested in realizing pattern breaking change of social importance in sudtainable and scalable ways. Twenty fellows will be awarded $50k in tuition aid and an intensive two year curricular and co-curricular component in social entrepreneurship.

  • Things NEVER to Say to American Indian Coworkers

    If you asked Rick Waters, director of corporations with the American Indian College Fund, how he classifies himself, he'd say, "I am Cherokee-American Indian." If you asked the same question of John Norwood, president of Nanticoke-Lenape Tribal Enterprises, he'd say he's "Nanticoke-Lenape-American Indian." So what's the proper way to address American Indian coworkers?

  • Portland State University Leadership Fellow Program

    This program is unique, not only in this community but across the country. Other colleges and universities want INPM to share this model. Why is it unique? Because it specifically addresses the leadership development needs of people of color, and was developed by and for people of color who work in nonprofit organizations serving diverse populations.

  • Antioch's Center for Native Education (CNE)

    Native students have the highest dropout rates and the lowest college completion rates of any ethnic group in the country. Antioch's Center for Native Education (CNE) is dedicated to changing this reality and improving academic success for Native Americans in culturally relevant ways.

  • "State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination"

    From Oxford University Press...
    The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination

  • LEADERSHIP CIRCLE TAKES SHAPE IN THE MIDWEST

    Article written by David Cournoyer, Board Chair

  • Circle of Leadership Program Information

    The Circle of Leadership was developed in 2005 and piloted in the Midwest region culminated with a national Leadership Summit in April 2007.

  • America is Indian Country

    A Native critique of American life, featuring the best of Indian Country Today's editorials and perspectives since 2000. Contemporary Native thinkers and writers meet the dominant issues in both Indian and non-Indian public life head-on in this unique publication. The book is a must-read for anyone who needs a contemporary view of the major issues affecting tribal communities across the country.

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