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The Obama Foundation has announced the inaugural recipients of its Leaders USA program, a six-month leadership development program.

The first cohort includes 100 emerging leaders with at least three years of demonstrated impact who aim to drive change across geographies, sectors, and issues, and participants hail from 37 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, and five tribal nations.

In a powerful gathering of Abot-Kamay Community Solidarity Fund (ACSF) partners held in the vibrant Quezon City, Philippines in May this year, an unsettling truth came to light: an undercurrent of mistrust towards local and national NGOs from community-based organizations. This is largely fuelled by NGOs’ pressure to emulate the practices of INGOs.