Michael Sider-Rose, Director of Programs at Coro Pittsburgh, traveled to Myanmar (Burma) the last two weeks of May to lead civic engagement workshops among democracy advocates. The trip was sponsored by the US State Department and the Community Solutions exchange program in which Coro participated this past fall. See this earlier post for background on […]
Coro alum Kashif Henderson was honored on May 29 by the United Way. A teacher at Brashear High School, Kashif received the Be There award for his exceptional work with children. An awards ceremony was held at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty. Kashif participated in a year-long teacher leadership program Coro customized for Pittsburgh […]
Coro Pittsburgh develops leaders to strengthen communities. We give people tools and trainings to help them tackle the most difficult and important community issues they face. Most of our work is local—strengthening civic engagement in South Pittsburgh, supporting school-community relations in the Hill District, gathering women from greater Pittsburgh to foster gender equity. This past […]
All Coro participants engage in some form of learning through experience. For the NEXT Leaders South Pittsburgh the main source of experiential learning is a group project they are conducting for the benefit of South Pittsburgh communities. On March 6, 2014, the cohort hosted a “Project Opening” at St Paul AME Church in Beltzhoover. A […]
Coro is currently running three part-time leadership programs: Leaders in Learning (education), NEXT Neighborhood Leaders (South Pittsburgh), and Women in Leadership. Participants in Leaders in Learning have finished their intensive 18-week Leadership Institute, capped by a Project Opening in which they shared a proposal for building stronger ties between schools and communities. Since then, they […]