Exploring Steamboat: A community that gives where it lives

Leadership Steamboat is sponsored by Colorado Mountain College in partnership with the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association. The program is aimed at growing and enabling business and community leaders. The culminating project of this year’s class of new leaders was Yampa Valley Gives, which  partnered with Colorado Gives Day to expand its reach. Lisa Schlichtman summed up her experience with the group in a recent Steamboat Today article.

— When it comes to exploring Steamboat, my involvement in the 2013-14 Leadership Steamboat program gave me a crash course in everything Steamboat and offered the perfect introduction to my new community.

I joined the program just a few months after moving to Steamboat and officially graduated in July after almost a year of monthly daylong sessions with 19 other classmates, who quickly became some of my first friends in Steamboat.

Sponsored by the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association and Colorado Mountain College, Leadership Steamboat is a worthwhile program aimed at developing business and community leaders. The curriculum was interesting and extremely beneficial, especially to someone new to click for full article.