Briefs: Leadership Marion! seeks next class

Marion Star
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Leadership Marion! accepting applications for 2022-2023 class

Once a month for nine months members of Leadership Marion! meet with local leaders and organizations to learn more about the community and its challenges.
Once a month for nine months members of Leadership Marion! meet with local leaders and organizations to learn more about the community and its challenges.

Leadership Marion!, a comprehensive program of the Marion Area Chamber Foundation that's designed to prepare the community’s next generation of leaders, is now accepting applications for its 2022-2023 class. The program seeks to identify, recruit and develop leaders who represent the diversity of our local community.

Through a dynamic, intensive, interactive, nine-month experience, Leadership Marion! is customized to provide a curriculum that enhances community acumen to augment current leaders and develop future leaders who will assume larger roles in their organizations, the Chamber and other community organizations.

The class, which meets one day a month from September through May, explores essential aspects of the Marion community, from education, business and government to health care and social services. Each class gives back to the community through a class project after identifying a current need and proposing a plan to address it.

Since Leadership Marion! began in 1991, more than 650 people have completed the program.

Tuition for the nine-month program is $850 for Chamber members and $1,150 for non-Chamber members. Nonprofit organization scholarship is available. The deadline for submitting applications for this year’s class is Aug. 31. For more information including an application, contact the Chamber at chamberstaff@marionareachamber.org or 740-382-2181 or visit marionareachamber.org/leadership.

Local radio show celebrates an anniversary

WWGH 107.1 FM radio program “Now with Scott Spears” will celebrate eight years on the air on Friday. The show will also mark 4,500 hours of long form talk interviews that Scott has done in this series. Guests have included Betty White, Madeline Albright, Tony Curtis, Dick Van Dyke, Phyllis Diller, Jesse Jackson, and many more.

Ohio high school students sought for Teen Ambassador Board

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General's office is now accepting applications for its Teen Ambassador Board. The Board consists of upper-level high school students from public, private, charter and online schools in Ohio as well as students who are home-schooled. The mission of the program is to provide Ohio’s future leaders with an inside look at Ohio law and government.

Board members advise the office on issues relating to teens and collaborate with their peers to develop solutions to those issues. They serve a one-year term, during which they participate in activities throughout the state.

Ohio high school students who will be juniors or seniors during the 2022-23 academic year are eligible to apply for the Teen Ambassador Board.

Applications are due July 1. The application can be found on the Ohio Attorney General's website.

This article originally appeared on Marion Star: Briefs: Applications accepted for next Leadership Marion! class