Campus Compact » Trainings & Workshops

Hesselbein Student Leadership Summit

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Join 50 top student leaders from across the United States at the University of Pittsburgh to learn how to be effective, ethical, and innovative leaders. Participants will take part in mentoring communities with renowned leaders who will share their expertise and facilitate advanced training. Students will emerge from the academy with the skills and experience to excel in various leadership capacities.

Apply online by April 15 at http://www.hesselbein.pitt.edu/student-leadership/apply.php

Washington Seminar Center (WSC)

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:37:39 +0000

Offers social justice, peacemaking, and interfaith dialogue programs and seminars to over 1600 visitors annually. Can arrange a visit to your Representative in Congress.

Youth On Board

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:36:33 +0000

We prepare youth to be leaders in their communities and strengthen relationships between youth and adults by providing publications, customized workshops, and technical assistance. For the past eight years, Youth on Board has been helping individuals and organizations revolutionize the role of young people in society.

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:35:56 +0000

The goal of the program is to prepare students for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs. This goal is achieved by providing participants with the tools of critical thinking, speaking, writing, and quantitative reasoning and with the skills and experiences necessary to create, analyze, implement, evaluate, and affect policy in a multicultural, multiethnic society.

US Student Association

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Training for Change

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:34:30 +0000

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.

Tuck Business Bridge Program

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:33:44 +0000

The Tuck Business Bridge ProgramÂ® is an intensive, career-focused program for juniors, seniors, and recent graduates of arts and sciences colleges.

Student Empowerment Training Project, Training Ground for Effective Student Government

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:32:49 +0000

The Student Empowerment Training Project is dedicated to training student government leaders to be more effective advocates for the common concerns of students. We are best known for accomplishing this through our Training Program, where student government leaders learn to work with the media, lobby, develop leaders, and much more. Student Empowerment Trainings focus on the skills that will help student governments bring real concrete change to campus.

Ruckus Society Action Camp

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:32:10 +0000

Action camp is a weeklong intensive training program designed to unite activists, students, organizers, and other people interested in learning more about campaign development and expanding their skills base. Participants split their time between theoretical/ strategic workshops focusing on a wide array of advanced campaign skills and hands-on technical training in tactics for nonviolent demonstrations.

Rockwood Leadership Program

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:30 +0000

The Rockwood Leadership Program is non-profit organization that promotes social change through leadership training and consulting to progressive non-profits.

Replenishing Democracy: Summer Institute on Civic Engagement and Political Activism, Amherst College

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A summer program for undergraduates designed to encourage connections between academic institutions and grassroots activism.

Peacemaker Training Institute

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The Peacemaker Training Institute helps young people become more effective peace and justice activists.

National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness – Site Visits & Training Tour

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:26:03 +0000

Over the past fifteen years, the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness has worked with thousands of students at campuses nationwide to develop effective programs that address the issues of hunger and homelessness. The national staff and organization has extensive experience working with student leaders. Through trainings, planning meetings, and motivating speeches we can help you develop a semester of programs and inspire student activism.

Midwest Academy

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:25:34 +0000

The Midwest Academy offers on site training and consulting as well as five day training sessions for leaders and staff of citizen and community groups. The Academy is one of the nation’s oldest and best known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.

Michigan Campus Compact Annual Service Leadership Camp

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:24:58 +0000

This three-day event attracts teams of students and their advisors from across the state who are interested in community service, service-learning and civic engagement in higher education. The planning team’s intent in developing the agenda for this weekend is to “walk our talk” in including experimental components in each aspect of the program.

Institute for Community Leadership National Nonviolence Leadership Corps

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:23:44 +0000

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.”

Institute for Civic Leadership

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:23:13 +0000

The Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL), is an intensive one-semester program for college women, designed to advance the civic leadership capacities and commitments of women and to promote the civic and democratic purposes of higher education. ICL attracts women from colleges across the country to participate in a supportive learning environment that is both intellectually rigorous and practically relevant. During the ICL semester, students examine the intellectual foundations of civic life and democracy in a diverse and multicultural context. Through internships, workshops, lecture series, and mentoring relationships, ICL students also develop the strategies and concrete skills needed for civic engagement and civic leadership. ICL’s program takes place each fall semester.

Feminist Leadership Institutes

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:22:07 +0000

Since July of 1998, we have been bringing together diverse groups of feminist student leaders from across the country to participate in our Feminist Leadership Institutes. Semester after semester, they have been outstandingly successful, not only in building the leadership and activist skills of the individual participants, but in strengthening feminist leadership on their represented campuses.

Environmental Leadership Training Program

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:21:42 +0000

Green Corps’ one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives the top student leaders the skills and experiences it takes to be a leader in the environmental movement.

DART Training Institute

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:19:31 +0000

The DART Organizers Institute is a paid, field school for those wishing to pursue a career in community organizing. The Organizers Institute includes a seven-day classroom workshop with veteran organizers from the field, and up to 15-weeks of in-field training with a local organization. Graduates from the DART Organizers Institute will join dozens of other successful organizers as fulltime, salaried staff members working to build the power of low-income communities throughout the country in their struggles for justice and equality.