Capacity-Building
Meet the 2024 Nonprofit Civic Engagement Collective cohort
Our Nonprofit Civic Engagement Collective (the Collective) program held its orientation session where 15 participants representing Alliance member organizations from around the state started their 10-month journey learning and developing their policy and advocacy knowledge and skills. A special thank you to our lead facilitators LaDarion Ammons, Senior Partner at Ten One Strategies and Nancy Perret, Owner and Principal Consultant/Trainer at Burris and Associates, Inc. and long-standing consultant for the Alliance for leading our monthly sessions.
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