A Brief History of Leadership Huntington Foundation
The Leadership Huntington Foundation has a distinguished history of serving the citizens of Huntington and impacting the Long Island Region. Having graduated over 250 graduates, you will find Leadership Huntington’s influence in every corner of our community.In 1995, the Huntington Chamber Foundation together with support from the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce created Leadership Huntington as an annual program to train current and emerging leaders in our community. This exciting new venture fulfilled the joint mission of these organizations, to play an active role as a catalyst to identify, coordinate, and initiate projects with the potential to positively impact the local economy and the quality of life in Huntington. In 2007, HTCF changed its name to the Leadership Huntington Foundation.
Leadership Huntington (LH) was created from best practices and professional leadership training materials from around the country, as well as from the invaluable experience and talents of more than 50 active volunteer leaders and planners from our extraordinary community. LH has established one of the model community leadership programs in the country right in our own community. The first and only community leadership program on Long Island, LH joins a distinguished network of 1000 community leadership programs in communities across the country through its professional relationship with the Community Leadership Association.
In addition to the LH Flagship Program, LH has introduced a series of citizen accessible workshops, community tours, and hot topic forums designed to Develop, Connect, and Engage a broad range of citizens to actively embrace community trusteeship.
Past projects of the foundation included the initiation and successful implementation of two model child care centers; a primary health care facility – the Dolan Family Health Center - with Huntington Hospital as lead agency for the medically under-served; an eldercare project; and WorkPlus, which addressed issues resulting from legislated welfare reform as well as the Huntington Community Council, set up to co-ordinate, and meet the needs of Huntington’s not-for-profit organizations.
As a 501(c)3 organization the Leadership Huntington Foundation is set up to accept tax deductible contributions that help underwrite the programs and activities of the organization. Leadership Huntington is a non-partisan, independent, member supported organization.