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El Pomar Foundation and Center for Creative Leadership will be presenting the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Program 2.5 (previously known as Regional NELP) from Aug. 11-13. The application deadline for NELP 2.5 is June 7. The customized leadership development program helps prepare leaders in the nonprofit sector to produce better results, maintain and sustain healthy relationships and grow their organizations, an El Pomar-issued news release said. This yearâs NELP 2.5 course is open to nonprofit CEOs and executive directors from any region of the state with operating budgets of less than $750,000. Â
Over the course of the two and a half day program hosted at Center for Creative Leadershipâs Colorado Springs campus, participants engage in challenging exercises and workshops to become more effective leaders for their organizations and communities. Areas of focus include: giving and receiving feedback from colleagues, peers and stakeholders; identifying development
Terrance McWilliams received his first leadership lessons as a Boy Scout. Those lessons were reinforced during decades of military service and put to use both in the Army and in his current job at El Pomar Foundation.Â
Raised in Daytona Beach, Florida, McWilliams followed in his fatherâs footsteps and joined the military, where he put to use the lesson his dad taught him: âGrowing up, you know, where I did, my dad always said Black people had to work twice as hard. So thatâs what I did.â
And it paid off â quickly. McWilliams joined the military as a private. And 18 months later, he was promoted to sergeant.
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A truck drives south on U.S. Highway 115 Friday, July 22, 2016, at the intersection of Little Turkey Creek Road south of Colorado Springs. The proposed rock quarry on the Hitch Rack Ranch property by Transit Mix Concrete would add 275-round trips by similar trucks to the highway between the site and Colorado Springs. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
CHRISTIAN MURDOCK, THE GAZETTE
CHRISTIAN MURDOCK, THE GAZETTE