Our Goals: The American Leaders Organization

Here are some of the preliminary goals of our organization. If you visit this site, please leave a comment or contact us to let us know that you've been here! This small gesture will help us build the organization and accomplish these goals:

1) To increase leadership dialogue and awareness by providing a forum and linking together all leadership conferences, departments, and entities on our website. Once a conference is over, the ALO allows the dialogue to continue by giving students and professionals an avenue to carry on conversation through our message boards and blog.

2) Maintain a blog and other scholarly articles/postings, to serve as a resource for students to learn more about leadership. We will regularly interview leaders in government, entertainment, and sports to provide a link between student leaders and "professional leaders." Our blog postings will include articles from students and professionals across the nation, in a true collaborative effort.

3) Use our leadership to help those disaffected in society. The ALO will put together drives to deliver computers, books, and training to disaffected youth in the Baltimore & Annapolis areas, while encouraging our affiliated members to do the same across the country.

4) Increase voter turnout in the 18-24 year-old demographic by 25% in the next 8 years. Extending our "get-out-the-vote" drives to military servicemembers, the less fortunate in society, and other members who either do not vote or cannot vote for whatever reason, we hope to mobilize the youngest voting demographic of Americans like never before.

5) Help individuals think of leadership in new and innovative ways--to help students "think outside the box." We do this through a variety of avenues--currently, students at the US Naval Academy and Georgetown University are collaborating on a video project whose theme asks "What is Leadership?" Students go out to the streets to ask ordinary people the answer to that question, as well as high-level government officials and celebrities. The end result will be an awesome film about a very relevant topic, that we hope will appeal to a wide range of individuals.