--- # webinar w/ Paul Vandeventer, Gala Honoree and President & CEO of Community Partners Thursday, Apr 29 | \| We hope you'll join us for the next installment of our *Leadership and Resilience in Times of Uncertainty Virtual Series* with Coro alum **Paul Vandeventer**, Crystal Eagle Award 2021 Gala Honoree, and President and CEO of Community Partners We're excited to share that this webinar will be moderated by Crystal Eagle Award 2020 Gala Honoree **Joe Lumarda**, Coro alum and Senior Vice President and Private Wealth Advisor for Capital Group Private Client Services. \| \|---\| | |---| | \| ### Session Details \| \|---\| | |---| | \| \| \|---\| | |---| | \| **Title** \| \|---\| \| Mastering our Lives as Citizens through Civic Reach \| \|---\| | |---| | \| \| \|---\| | |---| | \| **Description** \| \|---\| \| Our belief as Americans in the mythical power of our individualistic eminence has poorly equipped us throughout U.S. history to act as citizens with shared ownership in the quality of our democracy and government. Indeed, the mere statement that “we are governed” riles many Americans. Strong individualist tendencies handed to us through centuries provoke many in our society to regard government and public affairs generally as intrusive in their lives. Overcoming the isolation that is heir to unbridled individualism demands a new human capacity: the instinct resident in all of us to master civic reach and devote that reach to more authentic lives as true citizens concerned not only about ourselves but about all of us, together. Civic reach requires a certain humility, even awe, and a confident grasp of the complex social, economic, political and cultural forces that seeth and settle, conserve and disrupt, humanize and divide the communities and special places we treat as our homeplaces, but treat passively as if they did not need our involvement. In this webinar, Coro’s 2021 Crystal Eagle Award Honoree **Paul Vandeventer**, Coro alum and President & CEO of Community Partners, will share thoughts and ideas shaped by his upbringing, his Coro training and his nearly 30 years of supporting through Community Partners the acceleration of ideas into action that advance the public good. This webinar will be moderated by Coro’s 2020 Crystal Eagle Award honoree **Joe Lumarda**, Coro alum and Senior Vice President and Private Wealth Advisor for Capital Group Private Client Services. \| \|---\| | |---| | \| \| \|---\| | |---| | \| **Speaker** ![](https://mcusercontent.com/340f37183c8b705f5e8693594/images/12284f31-2ee3-46d2-8d07-4b29fc12481f.png) \| \|---\| \| As President & CEO of Community Partners, **Paul Vandeventer** heads a community organization he co-founded in 1992 to help foster, launch and grow creative solutions to community challenges. Paul has led the organization through 29 years of dynamic growth and development to now include over 180 sponsored projects, a core staff of 43, more than a dozen large-scale, multi-year civic intermediary programs, and the management and administration of $70 million annually. Paul joined the Coro Fellowship Program in Public Affairs in 1979-80 in Los Angeles, during which Paul's love for Los Angeles soared as the program's explorations of the region deepened. Subsequently, he served on Coro's board of directors, including a term as chair, and worked as a Coro trainer for two years. He co-authored “Networks that Work: A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Networked Action,” and writes and speaks extensively on civil society, community, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. \| \|---\| | |---| | \| \| \|---\| | |---| | \| **Date/Time** \| \|---\| \| Thursday, May 13 at 4:00 PM PT \| \|---\| | |---| | \| \| \|---\| | |---| | \| **Registration** \| \|---\| \| [**Registration**](https://corola.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=340f37183c8b705f5e8693594&id=0b70c0e538&e=60d9cfef39) **in advance is required.** \| \|---\| | |---| | \| \| \|---\| | |---| | \| To check out upcoming virtual sessions and view recordings of past webinars, visit [**our website**](https://corola.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=340f37183c8b705f5e8693594&id=ddc8e1e0f1&e=60d9cfef39). 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