SUMMER OPPORTUNITY – PHOENIX PROJECT 2008 NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

Applications are now available for the 2008 Nonprofit Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program. The six week summer program is Virginia’s premier statewide opportunity for exceptional students to obtain the knowledge, skills and relationships required for their roles as the Commonwealth’s next generation of social entrepreneurs. The program includes an intensive two week academic session that prepares students to tackle projects during four weeks of fieldwork in the community. Admission is highly competitive and the class is limited to thirty students. The early application deadline is January 7, 2008. The program is open to current sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students.

Projects completed by our students last summer ranged from organizing a dental clinic for low-income residents to creating an external marketing and communications plan for the Petersburg Public Schools. Students worked with various nonprofits such as the American Red Cross, the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, and Tri-Cities Habitat for Humanity. They also conducted research on education, healthcare, employment, the arts, and various city policies.

The Phoenix Project, a statewide nonprofit organization, seeks to build a sustainable partnership between Virginia’s colleges and universities and its most distressed communities that adds civic capacity to communities, strengthens the mission of universities, and provides a powerful context in which to train students to become nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs who can assume leadership roles across Virginia. For more information visit www.phoenixproject.org/nlp or contact us at nlp@phoenixproject.org or call 703-425-3532.