College Success Foundation
The College Success Foundation provides college scholarships and mentoring to low-income, high-potential students.
Charles Strain
former Ehrlich Award finalist, administrative leader, understands moral development theory, supports “lattice” of opportunities for students (formerly a “ladder”) with asset-focused approach
Best Practices in Campus-Based Mentoring
Information on campus-based mentoring from Campus Compact including why and how to implement programs. What is mentoring? Why campus-based? Who benefits from mentoring programs? Steps to planning, implementing, and managing a mentoring program What we have learned from research Campus partners in learning What is Mentoring? If the role model’s message is “Be like me,” the mentor’s implicit message says: “I will help you be whoever you want to be.” Young people need to hear and believe both messages. The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for America’s Youth and Young Families. The William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family,…
Earn, Learn, and Serve: Getting the Most from Community Service Federal Work-Study
Campus Compact has compiled this comprehensive guide to help member campuses meet or exceed the mandate that 7% of Federal Work-Study funds be used to support community-based work.
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Break Away’s mission is to train, assist, and connect campuses and communities in promoting quality alternative break programs that inspire lifelong active citizenship.
Training for Change
Training for Change was founded on Martin Luther King’s birthday in 1992, a carefully chosen birthday for a group that spreads the skills of democratic, nonviolent social change. Since then we’ve led hundreds of workshops for nonviolent activists around the world.
Institute for Community Leadership National Nonviolence Leadership Corps
The NNLC is an intensive seven week traveling leadership experience for students from ICL programs across the country. The students who travel with the NNLC from the Bay Area to Seattle sleep on gymnasium floors, get up each morning at 6:00, cook their own meals with a traveling kitchen, teach in local schools throughout the day and carry out public events or additional workshops each evening. The student leaders study and practice the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, Cesar Chavez and other great leaders.”
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