Participants

• Ideally, fewer than 50 men and women from a broad spectrum of community life are invited to participate in each year’s program.  Representatives of business, labor, government, minority groups, religious organizations, civic groups and professional fields are typically involved.

• Participants are nominated by people who recognize them as leaders of the future.  Employers, civic groups, social service agencies, former Leadership Beaumont participants and Beaumont Chamber of Commerce members recommend individuals they believe would benefit from – and benefit – such a program.  In selecting each year’s participants, the program’s advisory group strives for a diverse cross-section of the community.

• The program year begins in August and ends the following April.  There is a tuition fee which includes the cost for the dinner/seminar meetings and program materials.  This fee of $600 is one of the lower tuitions of leadership programs nationwide.  Sponsoring employers and organizations usually pay the tuition, although individuals may pay on their own.  Each participant is expected to pay $50 of the tuition fee.  Tuition is non-refundable after the opening retreat in August.  Full or partial scholarships are available.

• Leadership Beaumont is operated by the Leadership Education Foundation and therefore has obtained 501(C)3 status as a non-profit charitable contribution organization through the state of Texas that allows a portion of the tuition cost to be tax deductible.