By focusing on skill-building for key progressive leaders, the Rockwood Leadership Program proposes to organize national and regional think tank leaders and facilitate collaboration in visioning, messaging and program across the boundaries of organization, issue focus, and geography. Drawing on training methodologies from community organizing, private sector leadership development programs, and its deep experience facilitating progressive social change, Rockwood delivers intensive workshops that help key leaders create the visioning, partnership and implementation skills associated with highly successful public policy campaigns. The stages in infrastructure-building, in the Rockwood model, begin with:
Since 1999, Rockwood has convened and trained more than 1,500 advocacy leaders, including the leadership of networks and coalitions focusing on prison reform, habitat protection, corporate accountability, human rights, public health, media reform and climate change.