Membership Process
Membership in Leadership Foundations comes with these five expectations:
1. Participate. Attend meetings, training events, etc.
2. Model. Affirm and attempt to model the values noted above: pray for and encourage others in our network, share what is working in your city, etc.
3. Commit. Fulfill commitments, if your Leadership Foundation commits to a joint project or task.
4. Share. Share basic information on the scale and effectiveness of your work up-dating your Leadership Foundation’s profile yearly.
5. Invest. Support the network’s efforts financially (yearly dues).
FIVE STEPS to Membership
1. Explore. Let us know of your city’s interest in exploring membership.
- Call us to discuss your interest.
- Complete “Interest in LF Membership” form.
2. Know. Get to know the network.
- Begin receiving our Street Lights monthly newsletter to learn more.
- Visit an established Leadership Foundation.
- Come to LF’s Training Institute.
3. Build. Get necessary building blocks in place.
- Check your fit with the Leadership Foundation model and values.
- Participate in training offered for developing LLFs.
- If you are a new organization, get necessary structure in place: a Board, president, 501(c)(3) status, a strategic plan, and get started.
- A LF representative (mentor) will come to your city to meet you, see related work that’s underway, and answer any questions you have about the network, at the LLF’s expense. This person will also advise you on start-up issues and LF’s membership process.
4. Apply. Apply to become a member.
- Complete Membership Application and submit related materials.
- A LF team will come to your city for your first Accreditation.
- Mutual decision about membership, between the LLF Board and LF Board.
- Pay your first year’s dues.
5. Engage. Get engaged.
- Training, exchange of best practices, multi-city initiatives, and schedule future accreditations as needed.
