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Leadership Academy

Cherry Creek Schools Leadership Academy

Cherry Creek Schools Foundation is proud to have funded the Cherry Creek Leadership Academy, a yearlong program that aims to break the cycle of violence while empowering students as community leaders. Leadership Academy launched as a response to a tragic wave of violence in March of 2022. The program re-engages students with education and their community, working to prevent youth violence through a grassroots approach. Thanks to supporters like you and the support of our community, the program has since secured more than one million in grants from the City of Aurora as well as Arapahoe County.

In the News

Cherry Creek Leadership Academy students reflect on experiences (January 2026)

Leadership Academy Continuation and Celebration (June 2025)

Window to Wellness (April 2025)

CCSD Leadership Academy students present to NAACP Aurora chapter (January 2024)

Summer Leadership Academy students celebrate with transition ceremony (November 2023)

Colorado Black Caucus of School Board Directors honors Jasper Armstrong (March 2023)

Summer Leadership Academy students reflect on lessons (January 2023)

Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado honors Jasper Armstrong (November 2022)

Summer Leadership Academy connects students with community, goals, solutions (August 2022)

CBS: Young People Build Leadership And Connections To Curb Aurora Gun Violence (June 2022)

Colorado Sentinel: Cherry Creek launches summer leadership academy for at-risk students with goal of curbing youth violence (June 2022)

Our Impact This Year

  • Grants Awarded to Educators

    $193,000

  • Students Impacted

    53,000

  • Scholarships Awarded

    $55,000

  • Donated to Mental Health

    $122,000

  • JHL Constructors
  • United Healthcare
    United Healthcare
  • DLR Group

    DLR Group

  • Westerra Credit Union
  • GH Phipps
    GH Phipps
  • Johnson Controls
    Johnson Controls

    Johnson Controls

  • Haselden
  • CBRE/Turner & Townsend
    CBRE/Turner & Townsend
  • Aurora Housing Authority
    Aurora Housing Authority

    Aurora Housing Authority

  • CoBank
    CoBank
  • CCA Foundation
  • Community College of Aurora
    Community College of Aurora
  • Health One
  • Knoll Team
  • Adolfson & Peterson Construction
  • ANB Bank
    ANB Bank

    ANB Bank

  • CCEA
  • CU Denver
    CU Denver
  • 1st Bank
  • GH2 Architectcs
    GH2 Architectcs
  • GTC Construction
    GTC Construction
  • Kore
    Kore

    Kore

  • MA Meyer Construction
  • Plante Moran
  • RBC Capital Markets
  • Saunders
  • Stifel
  • Kaiser Permanente
    Kaiser Permanente
  • CBRE/Turner & Townsend
    CBRE/Turner & Townsend
  • Aurora Chamber of Commerce
    Aurora Chamber of Commerce
  • Alpine Bank
  • BC Interiors
  • Butler Snow
  • Credit Union of Colorado
    Credit Union of Colorado
  • Hilltop Securities
  • HCM RATIO
  • OS Schools
    OS Schools
  • Piper Sandler & Co
  • Cuningham Architecture
  • JP Morgan
    JP Morgan
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