NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence Program

What We Look for in a Candidate

Approximately 50 experienced leaders who direct sophisticated community development corporations will be selected from a competitive process to participate in this highly innovative and challenging program.

The typical selected participant will be an executive director or other senior leader with significant authority in a community development organization* for five or more years (even if it is not at the same organization).

This is not a remedial program to improve the work of struggling managers.  This is an organizational transformation program that helps the best of the best in our field go beyond their current levels of success to even greater impacts in the communities they serve.

Those selected must be thoughtful about the community development field, excited about the work that you do now, and eager to take that work to the next level through articulating, committing to and addressing a specific and critical challenge facing your organization.

This program has a highly competitive application process. At times we receive nearly twice as many applications as spaces available and we expect the competition to be even greater for the next round due to growing word-of-mouth referrals and growing visibility of the program.

*We define community development organizations as those organizations that focus on housing, community revitalization or economic development.

For additional information about Achieving Excellence, call (800) 438-5547 or (202) 220-2454, or e-mail training@nw.org.