NeighborWorks America® offers more than 100 community development courses at their NeighborWorks Training Institutes, held four times a year in key locations nationwide.
NeighborWorks America, in the vanguard of community development, also plays an especially valuable role in meeting the specific needs of specialized populations, offering training for practitioners in the area of Native American, rural housing and Hispanic/Latino outreach, and green building.
Achieving Excellence
Achieving Excellence was designed to provide the mature, seasoned, successful community development practitioner with the tools and forums needed to continue to grow. The curriculum draws knowledge from fields outside community development and then applies the lessons in a way that is directly useful to this work. Creating an environment—not only in the classroom, but in the recipient organization—for receptivity of knowledge is key.
Community Leadership Institute
The Community Leadership Institute is a training event that aims to strengthen the voices and skills of community, resident, and volunteer leaders. Participants attend in teams from areas served by NeighborWorks Network organizations and their partners.
Green Building and Healthy Homes
NeighborWorks Training Institute is proud to present cutting-edge courses that promote sustainable design, green building and healthy housing. Sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation, the courses offer new solutions to old problems in affordable housing and construction and production management.
Native American
Native American communities face many challenges in increasing homeownership and establishing economic development opportunities, particularly on reservations. Recognizing the need for homeownership and effective economic development strategies, NeighborWorks Training Institute offers the Native American Community Development Training Program.
Place-Based Training
In order to respond to the growing demand for high quality community development training at the local level, NeighborWorks America and the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC) present “place-based” training courses conducted on-site for interested community organizations.
Rural American
In 2004, NeighborWorks America pledged to invest more than $1 billion in rural communities across America by 2005 – an investment grounded in the ongoing activities of the NeighborWorks Rural Initiative. Launched in 2000, the Rural Initiative supports the housing and economic development activities of chartered NeighborWorks organizations serving rural America.
Training Courses in Spanish
In order to expand the pool of qualified bilingual professionals and overcome the lack of information about the homebuying process in Spanish-speaking communities, NeighborWorks America and the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC) offer at least one bilingual training course at each NeighborWorks Training Institute.
