Building strong, inclusive, equitable and sustainable communities requires widespread civic participation, with diverse community leadership. Toward this end, the Natural Leaders Initiative:

• supports, catalyzes and accelerates the growth of natural leaders, (particularly from communities of color, immigrant communities, and low/moderate-income communities),
• assists organizations to strengthen their capacity to recognize, include, support and develop diverse community leadership, and
• helps people to organize within and beyond their own networks and take collective action for systemic change.