Monthly Archives: December 2025

Because of this community’s generosity, Roaring Fork Leadership raised nearly $6,000 during this year’s Colorado Gives Day giving season. Every gift - large and small - directly supports leadership development, scholarship access, and the continued strength of our region’s nonprofit, business, and civic sectors. We are deeply grateful to everyone who gave, shared our campaign, or started a new recurring gift. Your belief in accessible leadership development makes a tangible difference for individuals and organizations across the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. Your support matters now more than ever. Twenty-five percent of our Academy 2026 participants are receiving scholarship support, [...]

Civic Impact Project Highlight: Beyond Silos— Mapping Collaboration to Strengthen Belonging, Civic Capacity & Community Health One of this year’s most significant Roaring Fork Leadership’s Civic Impact Projects is Beyond Silos: Strengthening Nonprofit Collaboration for Greater Community Belonging, a partnership between two RFL Civic Impact Teams and project sponsor Andrea Palm-Porter and Angie Anderson, RFL Alum and President & CEO of the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association. Angie and Andrea are also part of the Belonging Colorado Leadership Network Learning Cohort (where this idea and project was defined), positioning this work within a broader statewide effort to build connection, trust, and community resilience. [...]

The Belonging Gap: Why Connection Is Becoming the Core Leadership Skill "Increasing belonging across all settings is needed." Colorado Health Institute: https://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/research/colorado-belonging-barometer In every program we run—from Academy to Mastermind to Elevate—one truth consistently emerges: leaders today are struggling more with connection than with competence. Across Colorado’s mountain and rural communities, leaders are managing more responsibilities with fewer resources. Many describe living in a constant state of time poverty—the chronic sense of having too much to do and not enough time to do it. Research out of UCLA calls time poverty one of today’s most pervasive emotional burdens, leaving people feeling [...]