In addition to NeighborWorks America's more than 100 community development courses at their NeighborWorks Training Institutes, held four times a year in key locations nationwide, NeighborWorks America, in the vanguard of community development, also plays an especially valuable role in meeting the specific needs of specialized populations, offering localized training, advanced programs, community leadership-specific programs, and focused topics for practitioners in the areas of green building; community stabilization and Native American, rural housing and Hispanic/Latino community outreach.
Place-Based Training
In response to the demand for high quality community development training, NeighborWorks America presents "place-based" training courses conducted by request and with support from partner organizations. Learn more about how your organization can request an on-site training. Place-based trainings are available for affordable housing, homeownership, foreclosure, community stabilization and other topics. To see a list of the current events open for registration or to apply for a scholarship to attend place-based training, visit the online registration and scholarship application page.
Achieving Excellence
Achieving Excellence was designed to provide the mature, seasoned, successful community development practitioner with the tools and forums needed to continue to grow. The curriculum draws knowledge from fields outside community development and then applies the lessons in a way that is directly useful to this work. Creating an environment — not only in the classroom, but in the recipient organization — for receptivity of knowledge is key.
Community Leadership Institute
The Community Leadership Institute is an invitation-only training event that aims to strengthen the voices and skills of community, resident and volunteer leaders. Participants attend in teams from areas served by NeighborWorks Network organizations and their partners.
Focused Topics
Green Building and Healthy Homes
NeighborWorks Training Institute is proud to present cutting-edge courses that promote sustainable design, green building and healthy housing. Sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation, the courses offer new solutions to old problems in affordable housing and construction and production management.
Neighborhood Stabilization Training
As part of our effort to help mitigate the effects of the foreclosure crisis,
NeighborWorks America is focusing on developing tools and training to enable
local governments and nonprofit organizations to evaluate approaches and tailor
responses to the increase in foreclosures and real estate owned properties (REOs).
Foreclosure Training
NeighborWorks America provides the leading training in foreclosure counseling training. Foreclosure intervention counseling training prepares homeownership practitioners with the knowledge and skills to successfully deliver specific housing counseling assistance to delinquent and foreclosure clients.
Native American Community Development Training
Native American communities face many challenges in increasing homeownership and establishing economic development opportunities, particularly on reservations. Recognizing the need for homeownership and effective economic development strategies, NeighborWorks Training Institute offers the Native American Community Development Training Program.
Rural Community Development Training
In 2004, NeighborWorks America pledged to invest more than $1 billion in rural communities across America by 2005 — an investment grounded in the ongoing activities of the NeighborWorks Rural Initiative. Launched in 2000, the Rural Initiative supports the housing and economic development activities of chartered NeighborWorks organizations serving rural America.
Spanish-Accessible Training Courses
In order to expand the pool of qualified bilingual professionals and overcome the lack of information about the homebuying process in Spanish-speaking communities, NeighborWorks America and the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC) offer at least one bilingual training course at each NeighborWorks Training Institute.
