History of the Leadership Academy of Madison County
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It all began in 1980. The Lilly Foundation was the catalyst to community leadership programs throughout Indiana. They offered training and dialogue session to develop programs for each community or monetary support. Madison County community leadership chose the training sessions.
Anderson University and the Chamber agreed to partner and lead the charge to create our community leadership program. It was an all volunteer effort. Tom Bruce, AU made the coffee and picked up the donuts. Ray McCaslin and members developed the curriculum. Lois Church was the volunteer director overseeing the class members and getting them their information. Others developed the meeting locations and the sponsor support.
The first name was Anderson Leadership Academy (ALA). Then in 1995 it evolved to Anderson Area Leadership Academy (AALA) to include the other communities in Madison County. It then became the Leadership Academy of Madison County (LAMC) to include the whole county and the central Indiana area or region.
To participate one must either live or work in Madison County. In the early days we met twice a month for 9 months. That has evolved to a shorter time commitment as people are more likely to change jobs, etc. more frequently. In the beginning we would have 20-24 in a class and now we have 36 with a waiting list. LAMC does not increase the class size due to the availability of training locations that are large enough to accommodate that number in Madison County.
Every session is in a different location around the county in order to expose participants to the leaders in those locals and to give them an overall perspective of the size of Madison County and what each community has to offer in culture and business opportunities.
LAMC is its own 501c3. This helps sustain the growth and development of the academy adult and youth programs. This was set up in the beginning to assure its future. Anderson University has always given office space, phone, IT and financial support and the Madison County Chamber has always provided financial support, advertisement and a chamber membership. Area businesses sponsor the adult and youth academies annually with a monetary donation. This support is critical to continued success as LAMC charges far lower tuition fees than the other leadership programs in Indiana, but LAMC assures a broad availability to the central Indiana region.
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