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The Wyoming Heritage Foundation (WHF) has gifted over $1 million to the Leadership Wyoming program, paving the way for new leaders for the future and promoting a better Wyoming.
WHF established an endowment that generates interest income for the program, which currently has 198 total graduates and about 40 graduates annually.
The UW Board of Trustees and the Wyoming Heritage Foundation’s Steering Committee unanimously approved a unique partnership to create Leadership Wyoming in 1999.
“The partnership is a positive because it brings academic and business community resources together to create a great program. For Wyoming’s long-term future, we have to have leaders who understand the range
of issues and challenges facing our state, who understand critical components of what it means to be a leader, and, finally, who also understand themselves, which relates to the trusteeship component of the program,” says Bill Schilling, WHF president and director of Leadership Wyoming.
“Leadership Wyoming is an important component of achieving our mission,” says Schilling. “It’s a leadership program that benefits the entire state of Wyoming, including the business community - it’s about creating new leaders for the future, leaders from all walks of life, including nonprofit sectors, government,
education, business, and community volunteers,” says Schilling. Of the 1,500 state and local leadership programs in America, Leadership Wyoming is the only one with an endowment in excess of $2 million.
The Wyoming Heritage Foundation and the Wyoming Business Alliance are linked but are two separate entities. A 67-member steering committee, representative of Wyoming’s business community, sets policies for the two organizations. The Wyoming Business Alliance is a 501(c)(a) not-for-profit organization, and the
Wyoming Heritage Foundation is a 501(c)(3) educational organization. Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006
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