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Census 2020 Executive Director Leadership Institute

By forming the Mendocino County Complete Count The Executive Director Leadership Institute celebrated its
Committee (MCCCC), we convened representatives inaugural year, with 19 executive directors participating.
from education, local government, tribal leaders, Led by the Community Foundation, the Institute brings
health care, the LatinX community, and many together skilled leaders from throughout the county to
non-profits in a county-wide collaborative effort to get help non-profit directors learn and grow.
a complete count of local residents in the 2020
Census. Because census-derived funding is essential Non-profits in Mendocino County have unique struggles
for projects and programs in our communities, it made and new executives need a wide array of skills to succeed.
perfect sense for the Community Foundation to The Institute offers the opportunity to learn new leadership
spearhead the work of engaging our communities on skills, engage with a network of organizations, develop
a grassroots level. deep relationships between participants, and explore ways
we can grow together as a community.
Federal funding allocations are based on census
numbers. Census-derived funds support school While excited to continue the momentum generated in the
lunches, mental health services, fire management, first year of the Institute, due to the pandemic, we are
children’s health insurance, education, veteran care, shifting to an interactive online webinar series for the
wildlife restoration, business grants, highway construction, foreseeable future. By filling this critical need, especially
poverty abatement, water pollution control, and with the number of organizations experiencing leadership
housing for the elderly. By using our community turnover due to founding or long-time directors retiring,
connections to ensure all of our “hard-to-count” the Institute will help to transition the leadership that will
neighbors were engaged in this important effort, we determine the nature of Mendocino County’s non-profit
worked together to provide essential funding that will landscape in the future.
strengthen our county for the decade to come.
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