What is CCL?
The Center for Community Leadership (CCL) trains grassroots leaders and supports community organizations with the skills, resources, and networking opportunities needed to strengthen their potential to affect sustainable community change.
Why This Matters
Effective organizing requires organizers to have and constantly update/increase/advance their skills and capacities. A consequence of not supporting the growth of entry through senior-level organizers consistently leads to staff burnout and turnover, as well as ineffective campaign strategies. Most troubling, it contributes to the underrepresentation of marginalized people in leadership positions within the community development and social justice movement overall by making success and advancement more difficult to obtain. The Center for Community Leadership helps organizers to build both their abilities and their resilience so they can stay productive in this work for the long-term.
What We're Doing
CCL is a career-long learning program. Our Organizing Academy has two program tracks, both are 10-month intensive courses (September-June) that provide organizers with skills related to social justice and movement that are applicable in any issue area.
The Academy
*NEW FOR 2020-2021*
Academy Bundle
If an ANHD member organization enrolls 1 organizer in the Intro class and 1 in the Advanced course, their tuition rate will be $3500 for both seats, rather than the typical $4000. We are limiting Academy Bundle seats to 4 organizations for the coming year, and this rate is only available to ANHD member organizations.
Supplemental Workshops & Trainings
All participants in either course of the Organizing Academy have free access to all ANHD trainings for the duration of their class (September-June).
Introductory Course
The Introductory Course offers participants an overview of community change and organizing. During the course, participants deepen their understanding of social conditions as the context for organizing; explore different models of organizing historically and currently; develop their understanding of how to engage community in improving their own conditions; develop skills for building the leaders of community; and increase capacity for organizers to lead successful campaigns that win concrete changes for people. The course meets from 10 am to 1 pm, two Fridays each month starting in September and runs through the end of June of the following year.
Session Topics include: base building, leadership development, work planning/time management, meeting facilitation, campaigns strategy, and more.
2020-2021 Tuition: $2,000 ANHD members $2,500 non-members.
Advanced Course
TheAdvanced Course is for experienced organizers to read, reflect, and explore ways to deepen their analysis and practice of community organizing. We designed the course to help organizers elevate and deepen their institutional and individual opportunities for growth. It is structured by five topics that all look at developing staff and creating a culture of excellence; the five topics include Base Building, Leadership Development, Political Education, Coalitions and Campaigns, and Institutional Growth. For each topic, the class explores theoretical frameworks, reflects on current practices for their strengths and challenges, identifies new practices to try, and then reflects on implementing them. The class is participatory and discussion-oriented, rather than lecture-style. Participants, the instructor, and additional advisers all contribute to the on-going development of the course. The course meets from 10 am to 1 pm, two Fridays each month starting in September and through the end of June of the following year.
2020-2021 Tuition: $2,000 ANHD members / $2,500 non-members.
The Impact and Network Created
Since 2009, 227 individuals have gone through a CCL training program, and 98 community organizations have been involved in this unique opportunity.
Examples of campaigns participants have worked on include:
#HomelessCantStayHome
NYS Rent Law Reform
Right to Counsel in Housing Court
Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone Campaign (BASE)
Policing Reform Campaigns
Certificate of No Harassment (CONH)
Climate Justice
Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Ending Solitary Confinement
Ending the School to Prison Pipeline
Language Access at City Agencies
421a Reform
Lift the Caps Street Vendor Campaign
Numerous Neighborhood by Neighborhood Rezoning Campaigns
NYC Rent Freeze/Roll Back Campaign
Predatory Equity Campaigns
Stand For Tenant Safety, Department of Buildings Reform Campaign
Click here to see the full list of community organizations who we have worked with through CCL.
Our Alumni
Post-graduation, we continue supporting CCLers and the organizing movement with ongoing educational and networking opportunities. Alumni stay connected through our LinkedIn page and through our Facebook Group. If you'd like to be added, please contact our Program Coordinator, Aixin Li at Aixin.L@anhd.org.
We Are Now Accepting Applications for our 2020-2021 Organizing Academy
The CCL Introductory Course is designed for individuals newer to campaigns, basebuilding, and leadership development, creating a shared space for them to explore the foundational elements and history of community organizing. Applications are available here.
The CCL Advanced Course is an opportunity for experienced organizers to read, reflect, and explore ways to deepen their analysis and practice of community organizing both personally and within their institutions. Applications are available here.
Deadline to apply for the Introductory and Advanced Courses is Friday, August 7th.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact ANHD’s Director of Capacity Building Armando Mortiz-Chapelliquen at Armando.C@anhd.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not sure if you should apply? Still wondering if CCL and the CCL Organizing Academy is right for you? Contact Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen with any questions you may have.
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