Nexus Community Programs

Alumni from the Nexus Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute program.

Nexus Community Partners (Nexus) Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) is a 7-month leadership program that supports, trains and helps place people of color and other underrepresented community members on city and county publicly appointed boards and commissions* that influence and impact equity in the Twin Cities Metro Area in economic development, health, housing, transit and workforce development. This program has been adapted from the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute originally created by Urban Habitat in Oakland, California.

*The BCLI does not target or place fellows onto nonprofit boards for nonprofit organizations. The BCLI targets only publicly appointed city, county, regional and state board and commission seats in order to shape equitable policies at the systemic level.

For more information visit https://www.nexuscp.org/our-work/boards-and-commissions-leadership-institute/