Twenty-five emerging community leaders from across the region graduated last week from the 2018 Gulf Coast Leadership Institute. The group made up the 13th class to complete Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s long-running leadership initiative. The 2018 program comprised seven training sessions over a three-month period led by faculty of the Leadership Development Institute of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. Gulf Coast Community Foundation commissioned the training and provided all other resources at no cost to participants in exchange for their commitment to use their new skills to benefit their communities. Participants were selected by Gulf Coast back in March through a competitive application process. Gulf Coast Leadership Institute is structured to help community-minded individuals develop leadership knowledge and capacity to more effectively serve their communities. At the same time, GCLI is designed to connect participants into a tight-knit group of skilled, action-oriented leaders. To date, about 325 community members have taken part in this leadership-development initiative.

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