INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL COMMUNICATORS INC

ICC exists to build and support a growing global community empowering next generation Christians to influence today’s culture. We help ordinary students become extraordinary leaders. We provide a plan for helping today’s students stay on the path toward living a Christian life.
We help students find their voice. When a student’s voice is found, she or he grows in confidence and conviction, no longer susceptible to destructive beliefs or behaviors.
Students who know they have a voice recognize that they have value. When they are valued, they are no longer susceptible to behaviors that devalue them.
We are helping parents and teachers communicate value to students, calling them up to character-driven leadership of their peers. Our students are becoming better students, more productive workers, more engaged teammates, and more loving family members.

ICC uses various strategies to accomplish our mission and vision, all focusing on empowering competence, community, and character. We have chapters around the world that provide safe mentoring communities for students of all ages to grow and develop communication and leadership skills together. We host live events in many different countries to provide immersive training for all ages of both students and parents or coaches.
We also maintain the ICC Academy, which gives students and coaches across the globe access to expert personal and professional coaching designed to build communication and leadership skills. The ICC Academy provides resources to intergenerational and leadership teams in digital learning environments when and where it works for them.

Volunteers
The Institute recruits and develops volunteers for mission impact. There are currently 160 adult volunteers working alongside another 200+ high school and college volunteers. ICC volunteers coach students of all ages; lead local community groups; host live events; provide hospitality to event attendees and traveling teams; design curricular resources; chaperone mobilized student teams and leadership residencies; coordinate transportation, food, lodging, and communication; and support every aspect of ICC’s mission.

Academy
The ICC Academy provides live instructor-led training and asynchronous, on-demand courses to equip students, teachers, parents, and coaches across the globe. Academy courses make it possible for more students each year to access ICC’s transformational training.

Training Center
ICC’s Training Center features a 4600 square foot residence on 5 acres in central Tennessee. The Center houses dozens of high school students annually in leadership residencies. These emerging leaders have access to coaching in communication and leadership skills; a state-of-the-art media lab; service opportunities in the community; emotional intelligence coaching; and practical teamwork experience. Emerging student leaders receive mentoring in the competencies most sought after in higher education and in the marketplace: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and cultural intelligence.

Curriculum
Customized intellectual property has been designed to advance the ICC mission for students of all ages. ICC’s customized content is delivered through live events, online courses, school classrooms, and family-based community groups. ICC’s curricular resources have been digitized for easy access to students around the globe.

Donors
A growing group of partners is committed to supporting the ICC mission and vision. Initiatives to grow this funding are underway. In the meantime, an increasing percentage of ICC’s annual budget is met through the contributions of generous donors.

ICC’s progress is seen in our growing presence in more countries across the globe, the growth in online course offerings, and the competencies and character demonstrated by our emerging leaders.
So far, ICC has identified representatives across the U.S. and in over 20 countries. Private schools and independent family-based curriculum groups are active in many different countries around the world.
The ICC Academy currently hosts courses three trimesters a year for students, parents, coaches, educators, and business professionals. Grade school, middle school, and high school students, teachers, parents, and coaches across the globe have access to this world-class training. The Academy also provides on-demand, easy-access beginning courses for students of all ages along with their teachers and coaches. Some next steps for the Academy include: translating curriculum into other languages (several in-progress); developing more resources to train instructors; providing access to more helpful resources to parents and teachers everywhere.
Our chapters, offered both online and in-person for further reach, produce competent, character-driven communicators and leaders. Our chapter curriculum now equips emerging leaders with greater emotional intelligence each year. Our student leadership programs are preparing more competent leaders every year.