Today’s Action Tomorrow’s Leaders

Waco is experiencing an extraordinary period of growth, development and optimism; and the results are being seen across the community in many sectors.  This growth is made possible because of the great leadership exhibited by those holding public office, executing public and private policies, managing local business, and volunteering in the nonprofit sector. In order to help sustain this momentum and maximize our collective potential, the Waco Foundation Board of Trustees is supporting an effort to encourage, promote, and enhance leadership development opportunities by participating in and providing staff and funding to a central leadership initiative, Today's Actions Tomorrow's Leaders.  This effort is a product of the Community Visioning Process and falls under the goal "engage leaders."

Today’s Action Tomorrow’s Leaders is an effort to evaluate community pathways to leadership and ensure that there are ample opportunities for training and service which adequately prepare citizens for leadership.  The program augments the work of existing program such as the Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Waco.  It is managed by a Steering Committee and supported by the Waco Chamber of Commerce, McLennan Community College and the Waco Leadership Forum.

Today’s Action Tomorrow’s Leaders Steering Committee

Kathy Douthit, Chairman	Gary Moore
Ashley Allison	Mike Morrison
Linda Beasley	Joe Nesbitt
Laveda Brown	Kris Kaiser Olson
Bill Clifton	Al Pollard
Virginia DuPuy	Elizabeth Smith
Broc Edwards	Rosemary Townsend
Mike Harder	Jim Vaughan
Alfredo Loredo

The first new program being implemented by Today’s Action Tomorrow’s Leaders is LeadershipPlenty®, a well proven leadership skills development program offered by the nationally recognized Civic Change, Inc. LeadershipPlenty® trains individuals to serve as certified facilitators who in turn, deliver a powerful 9 session course that is designed to help our community engage a diverse pool of local citizens in civic and community leadership.

Visit our LeadershipPlenty^® page to learn more about the program.