CORO
Coro New York

About Us

Coro is New York City's premier leadership training program and a community of 2,000 alumni across business, government, schools and non-profits that is shaping our city's future.

In a city as complex as ours, it isn't just the mayors and chief executives who shape our future. At Coro we believe that meaningful change must also come from those in business and communities, schools and unions, government and advocacy groups – not all with formal titles – but with the ideas and conviction to do more.

And for 30 years, no other group has put this insight into practice more successfully than Coro. We are a community who, through our single and collaborative efforts make the city great. We are the activist who built one of the nation's first green-collar training programs in the South Bronx; the commissioner overseeing the renaissance of city parks through public-private partnerships; the entrepreneur teaching immigrant women to bake the breads of their native lands; the executive director leading the city's response to the foreclosure crisis.

These people came away from Coro with a deeper understanding of how policy is shaped, an ability to listen to other's voices, and a network of engaged and influential alumni to help them reach their goals. They are part of a collaborative community with a shared belief that a single person, with sufficient drive and passion, is what will make New York a better place for all who live and work here.

 

Coro's Theory of Change

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Our Theory of Change was developed to reflect the change we want to see in the world and guide our current and future programs.

Coro New York Leadership Center provides leadership training programs so that Coro Participants:

  • Build their individual capacity for leadership and recognize the collective potential of their program cohort.
  • Develop a broader understanding of public issues and policies.
  • Expand their self-awareness, as individuals and members of a group/ community.
  • Attain skills on how to engage actively and effectively in public issues and civic life.
  • Gain exposure to multiple perspectives and increase their capacity to take on a perspective other than their own.
  • Understand how dynamics of power and privilege affect public policy and society.
  • Connect to Coro's community of diverse, engaged people of influence and perspective.

So that Coro Alumni:

  • Exercise leadership regardless of position or role.
  • Utilize new strategies for developing innovative and effective solutions to public issues.
  • Sustain a lifelong commitment to participate in civic life.
  • Influence and inspire others to affect change in society.
  • Incorporate different points of view and voices in their decision-making.
  • Collaborate with the Coro community and across sectors and boundaries as they engage in public issues and civic life.

So that:

  • Public processes and institutions will be more responsive and accountable to the individuals and communities that comprise them.
  • Communities, institutions and society as a whole benefit from diverse, informed public engagement.
  • Power, decision-making and resources will be shared with a broader set of stakeholders.

So that:

  • All individuals, communities and institutions participate in creating an equitable, just and engaged society.

 

Our Programs

Coro runs six leadership training
programs - each serving a diverse constituency at a different place on the career and educational spectrum:

Neighborhood Leadership

Mayor's Youth Leadership Council

Exploring Leadership

Fellows Program in Public Affairs

Immigrant Civic
Leadership Program

Leadership New York


Our Community

Coro's alumni join the most diverse and engaged leadership community in the city. Together they explore current policy, continue to learn and connect with one another as they engage in public issues and civic life.

Coro Alumni

Our Staff & Support

Coro's Board of Directors is comprised of distinguished civic leaders from across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Coro's experienced and dedicated staff deliver programs for over 100 selected participants and 2,000 alumni each year.

Coro Board of Directors

Coro Staff