Board Leadership Training Accelerator
Leveling up nonprofit board leadership across Los Angeles
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First Round Deadline: July 20, 2025
(automatic $400 tuition discount & priority access to cohort selection)
Second Round Deadline: August 24, 2025
(automatic $200 tuition discount)
Third Round Deadline: September 14, 2025
The Board Leadership Training Accelerator is a five-part immersive intensive designed to equip emerging and aspiring board members with the mindset, skills, and knowledge necessary to lead with impact. It takes place over five sessions in October. Attendance at all five sessions is required.
Step Into Leadership: Learn essential frameworks and tools grounded in effective and ethical leadership within the nonprofit sector. You’ll explore the dynamics of board service and its critical connection to values-driven, community-centered leadership.
Build Real-World Skills: Gain a practical understanding of board governance and nonprofit strategy. From fiduciary responsibilities to fundraising and advocacy, you’ll develop the skills to meaningfully contribute to mission-driven organizations and navigate board responsibilities with clarity and confidence.
Lead with Purpose: Reflect on your leadership style, values, and lived experiences to better understand your unique role as a change agent. You’ll explore how to align your leadership approach with an organization’s mission and lead with integrity in complex, real-world settings.
Practice for Impact: Apply your learning in immersive, hands-on sessions that strengthen your ability to collaborate, problem solve, and adapt in dynamic environments. You’ll gain tools and practices to engage effectively across differences, support teams through challenges, and steward transformative, sustainable impact.
Accelerate Your Path to Board Service: Step confidently into nonprofit board leadership with the tools and knowledge you need to make an immediate impact. You’ll develop a clear, personalized perspective on your goals for board service and gain exposure to a range of real-world board opportunities, including access to key decision-makers across the sector.
Strengthen Your Leadership and Strategic Thinking: Learn to lead with agility, integrity, and purpose using Coro’s time-tested adaptive leadership frameworks, inquiry-based decision-making, and values-driven collaboration practices. You’ll emerge with practical skills for navigating nonprofit challenges, influencing change, and stewarding mission-focused impact.
Build Your Network and Expand Your Influence: Join a powerful cohort of civic-minded professionals across industries committed to service and social impact. You’ll form lasting connections, exchange insights, and become part of Coro’s dynamic alumni community of over 15,000 leaders who are shaping the future of their communities, companies, and causes.
Unlock Lifelong Learning and Exclusive Alumni Benefits: Coro’s support doesn’t end at graduation. As an alum, you gain access to:
- Alumni-only continuing education and leadership development events.
- Exclusive networking opportunities with regional civic and nonprofit leaders.
- The Coro Classifieds job board and alumni collaboration platform.
- A Credly by Pearson™ digital credential recognizing your board readiness.
- A 15% tuition discount toward select Coro leadership programs.*
*Discount valid for two years after Board Leadership Training Accelerator completion for our tuition-based programs (Executive Leadership Network, Lead LA Fellowship, and Women in Leadership). Application and selection required.
The Board Leadership Training Accelerator is designed for both those seeking their first board appointment and those looking to elevate your current service. Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and worldviews in our programs.
Ideal candidates…
- are aspiring and current nonprofit board members seeking leadership growth.
- live or work in the Greater Los Angeles Region.
- are eager to strengthen the nonprofit sector through mission-driven engagement.
- are committed to deepening their leadership capacity with a cohort of peers.
- can commit to meeting for all five scheduled sessions.
Coro’s approach centers experiential learning and the active practice of leadership, providing the tools and an influential network to drive tangible change.
Active Leadership Practice: Leadership is a lifelong practice. Participants are fully engaged in hands-on, experiential learning that encourages mindfulness, presence, and personal growth, both individually and within the group.
Relating Across Differences: At Coro, we believe leadership isn’t just about solutions; it’s about asking the right questions. Participants are encouraged to engage with diverse perspectives across identities, sectors, and ideologies, developing the skills to collaborate productively and navigate complex challenges.
Curiosity and Vulnerability: We create a space for leaders to move from judgment to curiosity, to sit in discomfort, and to embrace vulnerability as a key practice. This approach fosters psychological safety, a necessary foundation for adaptive collaboration, innovation, and authentic connections.
An Intensive Leadership Accelerator: The Board Leadership Training Accelerator is a high-impact, immersive intensive designed to rapidly develop your leadership skills. The intensive format activates learning, fosters real-time application, and equips you to lead with clarity and purpose in high-stakes governance settings.
Tuition is subsidized from $6,500 thanks to our generous donors and is determined by application deadline; early applications are encouraged and cohort spots are limited.
- By July 20, 2025: $2,350.
- By August 24, 2025: $2,550.
- By September 14, 2025: $2,750.
Employer Assistance
Coro encourages applicants to discuss potential employer financial support for participation. By investing in this program, organizations support their team members’ growth in leadership, governance, and community impact, all of which contribute to stronger organizations and communities. Use the Program Benefits Guide to help frame this conversation with your organization.
Tuition Discounts
Thanks to the support of our generous donors, Coro has funds available to provide a variety of tuition discounts. Each participant is eligible for only one discount, which is available for specific application deadlines as noted below.
- 20% discount for Coro alumni (available for all deadlines).
- 20% discount for participants paying out of pocket (available for August and September deadlines only).
- 20% discount for organizations supporting directly two or more participants (available for September deadline only).
Past Participating Organizations
See Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network graduates’ organizations
Abundant Housing LA
Century Housing
City of Long Beach, Department of Health and Human Services
City of Los Angeles, City Planning Department
City of Los Angeles, Office of Council President Paul Krekorian (CD 2)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Council Member Nithya Raman (CD 4)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Council Member Heather Hutt (CD 10)
City of Pasadena, Accessibility and Disability Commission
Coalition for Economic Survival
Communities for a Better Environment
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
County of Los Angeles, Office of the Chief Executive
County of Los Angeles, Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell (District 2)
Covenant House California
Downtown Women’s Center
Ethos Real Estate
Highland Park Developments
Hollywood Food Coalition
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Impact Justice
Los Angeles County Development Authority
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)
Los Angeles Metro
Los Angeles Mission
Merritt Community Capital
Miracle Messages
M. Sherman Consulting
My Friend’s Place
National Council of Jewish Women LA
Ontario International Airport Authority
Orange County Department of Education
PATH
Rainbow Services, Ltd
RAND Corporation
Safe Place for Youth
San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust
SSG/HOPICS
Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Program
The Center in Hollywood
The People Concern
Thomas House Family Shelter
Urban Environmentalists
Thomas Safran & Associates
WET Design
Whalar
Alumni Testimonials
Monique Alvarado
Organizational Advancement & Marketing Project Manager
Los Angeles Mission
“I valued being given a space to engage myself as a diverse leader….I felt pushed to explore myself, and I value the deep relationships I fostered. I feel like I walked out with a family and a coalition that can innovate and change the future of homelessness. In no unclear words, Los Angeles needed this leadership space to have difficult conversations and the innovations that can possibly come out of our personal commitments to purpose and change…”
Jason Brown
Safety & Security Manager
WET Design
“I’ve gone through corporate management training before, with varying degrees of success, but participating in HHLN was very different. It was a truly diverse cohort with participants from all different sectors. Our cohort was a microcosm of the housing and houselessness space at large: developers from the private sector collaborated with social workers and case managers. We shared a mutual respect for each other and our different areas of expertise.”
Amy Turk
Chief Executive Officer
Downtown Women’s Center
“We have first-hand seen an advancement in our mission because of the deeper network, civic engagement, and personal and professional skills building that come with joining the Coro community. Staff who have completed Coro programs demonstrate greater adaptive leadership skills at DWC, a timelessly important quality, but one that converging health and social pandemics demands of our current workforce today more than ever.”
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