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All Expense Paid Summer Civil Rights & Social Justice Training Institute

Posted on: 02/12/2006

Training a New Generation of Community Change Agents

ATTENTION
High School & College Students
Interested in Civil Rights & Social Justice?
Spend part of your summer with the National Equity Center!

The National Equity Center, a non-partisan organization established to promote diversity and democratic values by cultivating, training and empowering a generation of citizens with the leadership, academic, research and advocacy skills necessary to eliminate existing local and national civil rights and social justice disparities is proud to offer an opportunity for high school and college students to participate in an all expense paid Summer Civil Rights & Social Justice Training Institute.

Twenty-five (25) high school students and fifty (50) college students from across the nation will be selected to partake in a civil rights and social justice orientated curriculum designed to equip them with the necessary skills to serve as National Equity Center Social Justice Ambassadors within their respective communities.

High School Students
July 9-July 22, 2006
Howard University, Washington, DC

College Students
July 2-July 29, 2006
University of California, Los Angeles

To Apply:
Log on to the National Equity Center Web Site at
www.nationalequitycenter.org
Click on the NEC Summer Civil Rights & Social Justice Training Institute link. Follow the directions to download an application for high school and college students. Mail the completed application to:
The National Equity Center
Attn: Selection Committee
P.O. Box 1847
Washington, DC 20013

Application Deadline: March 1, 2006

For questions regarding the application process, please contact Dr. LaTonya Hampton at (410) 363-7555 or via email at hampton@nationalequitycenter.org.

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