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Did You Know…

There are 748 Leadership Lafayette graduates living in and serving the Greater Lafayette community.

Leadership Lafayette graduates serve on many boards of directors and in more than 75 different organizations in addition to community churches and schools.

 

¨      For Example, in 2011:

  • 7 graduates serve on the United Way Board of Directors, including the President and first vice president and the chairs of the Community Investment and Volunteer Services Committees  
  • Leadership Lafayette graduates serve on the boards of directors of 19 of the 23 United Way agencies
  • 4 United Way Agency Directors are graduates
  • 50 graduates serve in local government
  • 8 serve on the YWCA of Greater Lafayette board of directors
  • 5 graduates serve on the Big Brothers Big Sisters and Tippecanoe County Child Care boards of directors.
  • 4 serve on the American Red Cross and the YMCA boards and 4, including the president, serve on the Bauer Family Resources board of directors.
  • 4 graduates serve on the Hanna Community Center and Lafayette Adult Resource Academy boards.
  • 3 alumni including the presidents serve on the Meals on Wheels and Lyn Treece Boys and Girls Club boards of directors
  • 4 Civic Theatre board members including the president and the managing director are graduates and 6 Tippecanoe Arts Federation board members and 3 Art Museum of Great Lafayette board members are graduates.
  • 13 serve on the Leadership Lafayette board including the president.
  • The current chairperson plus 7 additional graduates serve on the Chamber Council, 6 graduates serve on the Downtown Development Council, 4 serve the Lafayette Urban Enterprise Association and 3 on the Board of Directors of the Greater Lafayette Commerce organization.
  • Leadership Lafayette graduates have been instrumental in establishing numerous area programs and capital projects. For Example: Wabash Area Lifelong Learning Association (WALLA), the Long Center Renovation, Wabash Center Kids Connection child care program, the first two median plantings on US 52 and restoration of the Lafayette Theatre.