Preparing Civic Leaders for the Future

Coro was founded in 1942 to carry out research and education in the field of government and politics. The organization and its mission have evolved over its decades to define its work as:

Strengthening communities and the democratic process through all sectors of public affairs by preparing capable individuals and concerned citizens for effective and ethical leadership.

Creating a network of life-long leaders

Coro Southern California expresses its commitment to this mission by:

providing training programs for both emerging leaders and more traditional ones,

forging new styles of leadership for our increasingly pluralistic society.

Most critically, we strive to cultivate a community of Coro graduates and associates who model and practice effective and ethical civic behavior throughout their life's work.

The programs Coro Southern California is currently running are:

Fellows Program in Public Affairs
Neighborhood Leadership Program
Women and Community
Youth Leadership Initiative
Health Leadership Program
Leadership Southern California
Contracts, Custom Programs and Consulting

About Coro Programs

Coro educates Americans in the competencies they need to be effective, involved citizens through self-directed learning about patterns in the political process present in all human interactions.

EXPERIENCAL - Coro programs develop participants' leadership skills through an intensive experiential immersion in the real world of community politics.

CHALLENGE- Coro programs challenge individuals to engage in the political process by provoking dialogue and debate and by enlisting them to frame solutions for pressing issues.
GROUP PROCESS - Participants are pushed to articulate their individual convictions and to work together as a self-directed community of learners.

Coro Methodology

The most basic tenet of Coro methodology is that individuals learn best when they have first-hand experiences that illustrate concepts. There are four types of specific outcomes which all programs strive to achieve:

• Increasing knowledge of one's community and the democratic system of self-governance;
• Building skills to participate in or change the system;
• Exploring attitudes that the individual holds and understanding how one's own world view and the views of others affect the decision-making process; and
• Inspiring positive behaviors that will create needed changes in communities.

As a result of Coro training, participants in Coro programs demonstrate:

• abilities to creatively manage a spectrum of policy and governance issues,
• knowledge of complex social, economic, and political relationships, and
• enhanced skills in effectively exercising leadership.

Coro 's goal is to prepare civic leaders through individual and group coaching and training in essential leadership competencies.

Coro cultivates behaviors and attitudes essential to effective democratic self-governance by engaging program participants around difficult, contemporary, real-life issues so that they can thrive as intelligent and competitive participants in the inherently ambiguous and contentious political arenas of public life and community.

Through the intentional preparation of future generations for the political process, Coro hopes to honor and sustain the heritage of American democracy.