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The Thompson School’s Community Leadership program is designed for students who wish to transform a passion for community activism into a rewarding career.
This program is one of only a handful nationwide to combine hands-on community outreach with an academic study of communities, leadership, citizen influence, and non-profit organization management. The courses help students gain skills such as supervising volunteers, facilitating meetings, speaking in public, organizing events, and writing clearly.
Under faculty guidance, our students work in schools, crisis shelters, environmental organizations, animal care facilities, nursing homes, advocacy programs, town offices, citizen groups, and other community-related organizations. A combination of classroom learning and hands-on experience prepares them to work collaboratively or in a leadership role to find positive solutions to shared problems, and to effect social change at local, regional, and national levels.
