Program Highlights

Working in affordable housing means navigating the distance between what our communities need and what it takes to get there. Funding gaps. Competing priorities. Policies that take years to advance while the need for stable, affordable homes grows more urgent. My decade in housing policy, tenant rights advocacy, and local government has taught me how […]

Hear from Coro’s Youth Fellows Program: LA teens on the summer youth leadership program that reshaped how they lead, connect, and see their communities.

Read a guide to a more fulfilling way to approach your nonprofit board roles and responsibilities. Coro’s board governance training helps build better leaders.

Leadership starts with service. Some of the most consequential leadership happens quietly, in rooms most people rarely think to look. A nonprofit board meeting. A budget conversation. A moment in which someone chooses to ask a better question instead of pushing an opinion. Nonprofits carry real economic weight. They mobilize volunteerism and civic engagement. They […]

This summer, I spent six weeks as an intern with Coro California, sitting in on sessions for the Exploring Leadership program and talking with Fellows about their experience and what they learned. Fourteen high schoolers came into this year’s Exploring Leadership cohort not knowing each other. By the end, they were running their own graduation […]

Positive youth development is being applied as a framing lens to youth programs all over the country. Centered on six anchor skills that help youth thrive, it’s a cheat code to maximize the interactions we have with youth within our programs to positively impact their development. What strikes me as I dig deeper into this […]

A couple Saturdays ago, I sat in a blue plastic-molded chair in Huntington Park’s Community Center listening to representatives from the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission (OVIWC) talk to our Climate Resilience Leadership Network program participants about the Commission’s efforts to broaden awareness of their water rights advocacy work. They’d joined us from over 300 […]