Mon, Mar 23 - ACLF CLP Application Extension

APPLY to ACLF's 2009 Community Leaders Program! Application now due Monday, March 23rd by 12noon

Application can be downloaded at http://aclfnorthwest.org/clp.htm

ACLF's CLP has graduated over 100 outstanding leaders with an ongoing commitment to public service and positive social change. The 2009 CLP class will also mark ACLF's 10 year anniversary of strengthening the leadership capacity of local Asian Pacific Islander communities. ACLF seeks to recruit people who represent the diversity of our community in terms of ethnic group, nationality/immigration status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, age, geographic location, and more. We also seek a mix of experience levels. Please forward this message on to help us recruit yet another wonderful class!

"CLP has been transformative in sharpening the definition and understanding of what community means, of what our API issues are, bridging generations of pioneering and innovating activists, leaders, and role models, building deep foundation of knowledge of local API history, and empowering us with resources and tools so we can be accountable loving leaders working to better unite and serve our communities." -My Tam Nguyen, 2008 CLP Graduate

Program Objectives
To foster ethical, compassionate and self-reflective API leaders who promote greater social, economic, and political justice.
• To build strong interpersonal relationships that promote communication, support, and accountability to each other and to the API community.
• To strengthen inter-group collaboration through knowledge and understanding of diverse perspectives within the API community.
• To cultivate leaders who value and practice coalition-building across all communities in order to benefit the community at large.
• To build connections between the CLP class and the greater API community.

Our three-pronged approach fosters the development of individual leadership, community strength, and inter-community unity to promote issues critical to Asian Pacific Islanders:

Leadership Development
Program participants receive training in coalition building, interpersonal communication, community development, public speaking, media training, and other critical leadership skills.

Community Involvement
Participants develop and apply their leadership skills by completing a community project designed to benefit a local API organization.

Networking and Mentorship
ACLF promotes networking opportunities for participants to meet API community leaders and develop mentor-mentee relationships.

"The Community Leaders Program has been inspiring and a wonderful learning experience. It was just as I imagined it would be: challenging, educational, and a great introduction to API movers and shakers. It has brought me closer to the API community and opened my eyes to where more change is urgently needed. I couldn't have asked for better classmates whom I regarded highly at the beginning of the program and as we graduate I think of them more as lifelong friends."
-Ehren Watada, 2008 CLP Graduate

Application is attached or can be downloaded at http://aclfnorthwest.org/clp.htm.
For more information, contact ACLF at 206.625.3850 or aclfnw@aclfnorthwest.org.