Community Lunch and Learn

Do you want to connect with other emerging and established leaders from your rural community?

Join RDI for Community Lunch and Learn!

This is an opportunity to learn, network, and build your capacity and collaborations to lead community efforts.

Community Lunch and Learn is a one-day, 4-hour interactive leadership development training tailored for rural leaders in the Pacific Northwest. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave equipped with the knowledge and confidence to understand their leadership role, explore volunteer recruitment and retention, and build collaborative partnerships.

Key Highlights:

Interactive Sessions: Engage with peers through real-time discussions and hands-on activities during the lunch hour.
Rural-Focused Content: Understand community leadership concepts and explore vital topics such as catalytic leadership, effective collaboration, and social capital.
Network Building: Develop a network of passionate rural leaders committed to enacting positive change in their communities.
Tailored Approach: Focuses on place-based issues unique to your community and empowers local leaders to implement lasting, community-driven solutions.

Upcoming Workshops

Independence, Oregon
Civic Leadership Workshop

RDI is excited to serve Independence and Monmouth in collaboration with the City of Independence. This workshop is designed for people who want to understand how they can contribute to positive change right here in our city. Whether you’re new to civic involvement or looking to deepen your community connections, this workshop offers something valuable for everyone.

You’ll start the day with City Government 101, where you’ll learn how decisions that affect your daily life are actually made. Then we’ll take you behind the scenes with exclusive tours of City Hall, the Police Department, and City Planning offices – spaces most residents never get to see.

Over lunch, you’ll meet inspiring leaders from local nonprofit organizations and discover the incredible work happening in our community. The afternoon brings a community-based, leadership skills workshop led by RDI. You’ll learn practical strategies to recruit and engage volunteers and skills for building the social connections that make real change possible.

When: October 25, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Where: Independence Event Center
Cost: Free; Lunch included
Language: Offered simultaneously in English and Spanish