Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Elevate kentucky features approximately 25 members (ages 25 to 35) each year. Elevate kentucky's selected participants pay tuition of 2,200. Elevate kentucky offers young professionals indepth personal and professional development while fostering a better understanding of challenges facing our commonwealth. Elevate participants return to their companies with increased skills, knowledge, perspective, and a new statewide professional network. Millennial leaders are better prepared to be catalysts in their companies and communities in an effort to elevate kentucky.

Bright kentucky is designed to build the capacity of next generation leaders (average age 21 to 40 with approximately 42 participants in the cohort) in the appalachian region of kentucky to innovate, collaborate, and advance community and economic development. Bright kentucky engages bright, entrepreneurial minds from all sectors and eastern kentucky regions to offer nonpartisan, ethical leadership training, expanded networks, and mentors designed especially for residents of the 54 kentucky counties of the appalachian regional commission (arc). Bright is funded through a grant from the arc and private contributions from whitaker bank and others.