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In 1999, BWOPA began a major re-organization effort in order to address the need to develop new African American female leadership. BWOPA realized that potential leaders must be identified and provided with the skills and tools of sustainable leadership. The new focus gave rise to the establishment of the Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment (TILE). TILE is committed to outreach, training and skill building as a means of growing the next generation of leaders.

TILE provides programs to develop and incubate a generation of African American women leaders, so that these women are represented at local and national decision-making tables. African American women need to be included within the top ranks of corporate executive leadership, and at all levels of elected and appointed political leadership. Without their participation the much-touted “inclusive decision-making” model is a vision at best. The absence of African American female leadership needs to be redressed, and TILE has set out to do so. Created by and for African American women leaders, TILE is committed to training and supporting women as civic, political, community and business leaders. TILE believes that in order for the African American community, and African American women in particular, to thrive, potential leaders must be identified and provided with the skills and tools of sustainable leadership.

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