Read This – It Just May Save A Life!

Save a life? Yes. Why? Because we’re announcing the Advancing Leadership Adult (ALA) 2016 Team Project: Save a Life Saturday! Did you know you can learn “hands only” CPR in as little as 10 minutes? The goal of this project is to get hundreds of people in our city CPR trained…

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Linking In to Leadership

LinkedIn is the leading professional social media platform and the perfect way to continue networking with all of your AL contacts – from high school students to seasoned professionals – while following your own career path. It’s also the place where we learned Nikhil Bedi, AL ’11 is preparing to graduate from…

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Alumni Updates

Nimotalai (Nimo) Azeez, ALY ‘11 has a new position as a research assistant at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center in New Brunswick, NJ. Jordan Crahan, ALY ’12, was a featured speaker at TEDx WWU on April 16th. We asked him to tell us about his talk and the overall…

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Alums Make Summer Fun

As the end of the regular school year approaches, ALY is ready to get the fun started for alumni. The ALY Alumni Committee co-chairs Nichole Verzosa, ALY ’05 and Charlene Yamasaki, ALY ’10 are busy updating contact info, checking in with fellow alums and planning the next mixer. Mark your…

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Partner Spotlight: Enabling AL to Act

Advancing Leadership would like to thank our amazing funding partners for their commitment to providing the resources we need to deliver exceptional service to our learners and our community. Xerox Corporation has been working with ALY ’16 this past year and was the key event sponsor of their service project…

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ALY Gives Weyerhaeuser Hope for Our Future

In a recent issue of its internal newsletter, Root News, Weyerhaeuser published an article entitled, “40 Reasons to Believe in the Future.” What were those 40 reasons? This year’s Advancing Leadership Youth! The article focused on the experiences of Andrea Diep and Jason Palmer, ALY ’15 and recent grads of…

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FYI It’s DIY Gets VIP Results

It was uncharted territory, but for the tenacious ALY 2016 learners, that made the challenge exciting. When presented with a menu of needs from local community organizations last fall, the 2016 youth faced the same tough decision as every Advancing Leadership class: what is the best choice for our team…

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Partner Spotlight: Highline College

Highline College has been actively supporting Advancing Leadership for over a decade. The college has sent many employees through the adult program, including Lisa Skari, AL ’04 and Rashad Norris, AL ’13. Many ALY grads have gone on to serve as student leaders at Highline, and several, including Noory Kim,…

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ALY Alumni: Join Us!

Advancing Youth Leadership grads, did you know you can continue to stay connected as alumni?  Please read this special message from Nichole Verzosa, ALY ’05: The ALY Alumni group is comprised of ALY graduates committed to the development and longevity of the ALY program and its students. We provide professional…

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Apply Now for AL 2017

Yes, it’s only February, but people are asking for it, so… Applications are officially open for the next Advancing Leadership Adult Class. The Advancing Leadership program is designed to bring together emerging leaders from across our community for in-depth examination of key community components, intensive leadership training and a chance…

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