About

To Our Community,

GR Initiative for Leaders (GRIL) is humbled and sincerely grateful for your continued support as we equip and train community-focused, civic minded leaders over the last two decades. The community’s continued dedication to interdependence, education, and imagining new spaces to grow has helped GRIL to remain faithful and committed to our mission of strengthening leaders to transform communities.

The community has allowed GRIL to meet the challenge of growth and provide powerful leadership training for the teen and adult populations to transform the communities in which we live and work. As we look forward to the needs of these communities, GRIL’s focus is to bring together our alumni leaders to bolster the community civic minded and equipped leaders. These leaders already have the knowledge, skills, and abilities from our programs to make this happen.

Our passion is breaking down barriers to realize a vibrant community that operates with efficient, meaningful interdependence. As we continue to grow an ecosystem in which teens and adults continue to grow as leaders, we want to share with the community our pathways models. The pathways model is meant to connect participants and alumni more easily with their passion as soon as possible after completing our programs. Currently, we are focused on pathways that support community organizing, social justice work, youth leadership opportunities and higher education. In these pathways we want leaders to be able to get right into the frontline work of transforming their communities. Using these pathways, we will bring together existing leaders and institutions to create a healthy community.

GRIL continues to raise leaders who live out their purpose within the communities in which they live and work. We believe that GRIL’s pathway movement plays a vital role for every community in giving people a larger voice, strengthening leaders, and leading change in our community. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to the growth that the future holds.

Benjamin M. Brewer, GRIL U ’09
Board Chair