National Disability Rights Network: 2012 Conference. June 4-7, 2012. Baltimore, MD

2012 P&A/CAP Annual Conference

With plenty of new challenges ahead and a variety of emerging issues, the P&A/CAP network must be prepared to advance the rights of all people with disabilities.

The 2012 P&A/CAP Annual Conference presents a wonderful opportunity for you to hone existing skills and learn new ones.

Through the formal trainings and informal contacts with your fellow participants, you can renew and deepen your commitment to the work of the P&A/CAP System and become an active participant in improving the quality of life for people with disabilities.

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore this June.

Sincerely,
Curt Decker
Executive Director, National Disability Rights Network

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Registration

Get registered in 2 steps.

1. Register for the Conference by clicking here.      http://www.ndrn.org/en/events/annual-conference.html

2. Reserve your hotel room. (Please register by May 4th.  Hotel rooms are not guaranteed after May 4th.)

General Information

 June 4 – 7, 2012

View the full conference agenda. 

View a PDF of the conference General Information

The Conference begins at 8:30 am Monday, June 4, and continues through 5:00 pm Thursday, June 7, 2012.

TASC Conference Registration Includes:

•    Two General Sessions (Tuesday and Thursday mornings)
•    A choice of 6 full-day Institutes on Monday and over 70 sessions Tuesday through Thursday (Monday Institutes require separate registration)
•    On-site program with session descriptions, speaker and attendee lists, and general information
•    Session handouts
•    Conference CD with handouts and resources from all conference sessions

Food is not provided with your conference registration, however, for your convenience, you may choose conference services (CS) which includes breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments, and an evening reception on Tuesday, June 5.

Attendee Payments:
Full conference with CS, Tuesday – Thursday ..............................$465
Full conference without CS, Tuesday – Thursday .........................$0
Full conference plus Institute with CS, Monday-Thursday ..............$605
Full conference plus Institute without CS, Monday-Thursday ........ $0
NITA Only, Monday and Tuesday ................................................$295
Institute Only with CS, Monday ..................................................$140
Institute Only without CS, Monday .............................................$0
Full conference with CS and NITA, Monday-Thursday ..................$605
Full conference without CS and NITA*, Monday-Thursday ............$295

We encourage you to register by Monday, May 21, 2012 to ensure you have a space in the sessions, a complete agenda book, and all materials. For assistance contact registration@ndrn.org

CAP and PAIMI Subsidy: TASC provides a subsidy ($300 for CAP; $800 for PAIMI AC) for one individual from each state P&A/CAP to attend the conference. Please indicate which subsidy is being taken on the registration form. Subsidies will be sent to the agency in the form of a reimbursement after the conference.

Full-day Institutes are available Monday, June 4th, and require an additional attendee payment; please sign up early, as space is limited. The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) will conduct a two-day training Monday and Tuesday, June 4-5.  *Since NITA is an intensive course, participants must purchase conference services for those two days.

•    ADA Employment Discrimination Litigation Institute
•    Investigation Deaths and Injuries Related to Specific Events
•    Legal Directors Meeting (limited to Legal Directors)
•    NITA Training (Monday AND Tuesday)    LIMIT: 16      
•    PAIMI Advisory Council Training (limited to PAIMI AC Chairs, Coordinators, and members)
•    School to Prison Pipeline

Cancellation Policy:

Any cancellations before Friday, May 4 will get a refund less a $50 administrative fee.  Cancellations after May 4 will not receive a refund.  All cancellations must be in writing and received by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 4 for a refund.
  
Conference Location:

The 2012 P&A/CAP Annual Conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, located at the edge of Baltimore’s historic Inner Harbor:

700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
410-385-3000

•    The hotel is 12 miles from the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).
•    Parking is available at the Marriott at the rate of $25/day or valet parking at $38 day. Parking garage does not accommodate over size vehicles.
•    The Baltimore Waterfront Marriott is a smoke-free hotel and all guests and attendees must comply with Marriott’s policy.
•    When making reservations, Marriott requires a one-night room deposit.  Reservations cannot be made without this deposit. Check-in time is 3:00 pm; check-out time is noon.

A block of rooms with a negotiated single/double room rate of $209 per night has been reserved during the conference. When making reservations, please call 1-800-266-9432 or go to: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/ndrn2012

Please make reservations early, as reservations in the room block are not guaranteed and the room block may sell out prior to the reservation deadline of Friday, May 4, 2012. After May 4, if there are any rooms left in the block, they will be released for sale to the general public and rooms and rates cannot be guaranteed.
   
Accommodations: Every effort has been made to ensure that the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you anticipate a need in this area, please make arrangements with the Marriott as soon as possible.  Accommodation needs for the conference itself should be indicated on the registration form.

Questions?  You may reach anyone at NDRN by phone at (202) 408-9514 or by fax at (202) 408-9520. For information concerning hotel, travel, or conference logistics, please contact Paula Hirt at paula.hirt@ndrn.org (Paula is only in the office two days a week) or kevin.scott@ndrn.org (Kevin is available Monday-Friday). Program questions may be directed to Nachama Wilker at nachama.wilker@ndrn.org.

GETTING THE MOST FROM THE CONFERENCE: We want your conference experience to be the best possible. With that in mind, we urge you to take time to review the agenda at-a-glance prior to the start of the conference to decide which sessions interest you the most. Preliminary workshop descriptions can also be found online at http://tascnow.com/tasc/meetings-and-trainings.html. For the most up-to-date information, please check the website and, upon arrival, the on-site program.

CONTINUING EDUCATION: Attorneys who practice in Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) states may earn continuing legal education (CLE) credit for attending the conference. Copies of the Standard MCLE form and a workshop attendance form will be available in the on-site program book each participant receives at registration.

Certain sessions may also qualify for continuing education for social workers and rehabilitation counselors.

PASSPORT TO ADVOCACY LEARNING (PAL): As part of our commitment to provide state-of-the-art training and technical assistance to P&A/CAP professionals, TASC has identified seven areas of skill Network professionals should master to provide competent and well-rounded disability rights advocacy. Sessions are designed to not only give you the information to build these skills, but also the opportunity to practice them before returning home. For more information, please visit http://tascnow.com/tasc/communication/passport-to-advocacy-learning-pal.html. 

National Small Business Week. May 20-26, 2012

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. National Small Business Week is here! 28 Million Businesses Strong & Growing A Special Message from SBA Administrator Karen Mills It’s that time of year again! Today, SBA joins the entire Obama Administration in wishing a very happy National Small Business Week to the more than 28 million American small businesses, their employees and the people they serve! National Small Business Week is a public-private partnership to honor small businesses from communities across America. Small businesses all over the country continue to thrive, driving the national recovery and creating an American economy built to last. Building on that momentum, President Obama and I visited Taylor Gourmet, a local small business in Washington, to discuss his “to do” list for Congress to create jobs and help restore middle class security last week and kick-off National Small Business Week. > Read more Today's webcast begins at 3 p.m. EDT How Small Businesses Can Win Big with Large Companies > Click here to watch the live stream beginning at 3pm EDT Are you a small business with a great product, but have no idea how to get it noticed by a large company? Have you ever wondered how to get your merchandise on the shelves of a major retailer? How Small Businesses can get in Big with Large Companies will share the secrets to small business success with big business partners. With a panel comprised of a major retailer, a small business product developer, and a non-profit small business mentoring organization, the session will offer solutions from all sides of the equation that add up to achievement. Linda Boykin, Vice President of Merchandising for Office Depot, a leading global provider of Office Supplies and services, will share what retailers look for in small business partners. Holly Bohn, founder of See Jane Work, a stylish office and organization product company, will discuss her path to store shelves, and Mark Dobosz, president of SCORE, a nonprofit association dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, will offer tips to grow the business while also generating attention from larger companies.  http://www.nationalsmallbusinessweek.com/

Institute for Alternative Futures

A free toolkit for communities, countries, and regions to explore their own futures
IAF has developed a free "pro-poor scenario toolkit" for use by communities, countries, and regions to develop scenarios of their own futures that explicitly include poor and marginalized populations.

Pro-Poor Scenario Toolkit: Workshop Materials and Global Forecasts for 2039

A sheet of "ground rules" for the scenario workshop can be found here.






How can the poor participate in shaping our global future? While many corporations, organizations, and government agencies frequently apply foresight methods, poverty is rarely included as an explicit issue for consideration.  To change that, the Institute for Alternative Futures, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, has developed an approach to applying foresight methods to expand social and economic opportunities for poor and marginalized populations worldwide.

As part of this effort, IAF convened a workshop of leading foresight experts at the Rockefeller Foundation’s conference facilities in Bellagio, Italy on March 16-20, 2009.  The meeting, which was co-chaired by Leon Fuerth and David Jhirad, highlighted the rationale and practice of pro-poor foresight in accelerating and enhancing “smart globalization” and in gaining a better understanding of foresight in relation to a set of key issues that are relevant to the global South.

The full report on the 2009 conference:  Foresight for Smart Globalization: Accelerating & Enhancing Pro-Poor Development Opportunities

Institute for Alernative Futures: Mission & Vision

MISSION AND VISION

The MISSION of IAF is to help communities and organizations more wisely choose and create the futures they prefer by:

• providing techniques for organizational and social transformation that will instill vision and integrity;
• sharing insights gained from leading-edge futures research and a constantly expanding body of integrated knowledge;
• creating networks of relationships among leaders for more strategic, systemic, global and humane decision-making;
• developing practices that sustain organizational success in the present while consciously investing in endeavors that expand opportunities for futures generations.

Our VISION:

The Institute for Alternative Futures leads in the discovery and creation of preferred futures. People in organizations, communities and governments benefit from our drive to constantly think beyond the edge. We develop and teach our methods and processes. We plant the seeds for endeavors which will be sustained beyond our lifetimes.

Our staff, individually and collectively, are recognized and respected as catalysts for transformation. Our staff and clients are partners in a journey. We are guides and advocates, not for the destination, but for the search. Evidence of our work is abundant and clear. Leaders inspired by our work are more inclined and more capable of thinking in a futures context. Their decision-making is recognizably more strategic, systemic, global, and humane. The organizations they serve reflect the health instilled by vision and integrity.

We are idealistic and enterprising. Our creative adventures at the margins are anchored and supported by financial and systemic strength at the core. We are driven by compassion, fulfillment and service. We are constantly and wisely investing in our people, our infrastructure and our alliances. Quality of life matters. We live and perform in the moment while consciously creating alternative futures and expanding opportunities for future generations.

http://www.altfutures.org/vision_mission

Webinar: America's Promise. Communications Research

America's Promise offers free communications webinar on May 31

America's Promise Alliance is hosting a free webinar on May 31 from 1-2:15pm ET to share how new communications research can inspire more participation from target audiences. The session will explore both the research findings and how to use the resulting messages to help reach the Grad Nation goal of a 90 percent graduation rate. 


These messages focus on the values of audiences critical to ending the dropout crisis, including nonprofits, educators, parents, students, business leaders and policymakers. To preview key findings and messages, download the Grad Nation Message Manual. To receive registration information for this webinar, email  billw@americaspromise.org. 

America’s Promise Alliance Impact Network: 2012 Leadership Opportunities

http://www.americaspromise.org/Our-Work/Youth-Engagement/Impact-Network/Youth-Leadership/Leadership-Opportunities.aspx

America’s Promise Alliance promotes youth engagement as part of our Grad Nation campaign by encouraging and supporting our networks and partners to involve young people in community change, and sharing local stories of youth-led action with a national audience to build broader support.  The Impact Network is the umbrella of all opportunities available to encourage 13-25 year olds to engage in the mission of America's Promise Alliance. Below you will find two types of opportunities and four different roles available this July. Be sure to read eligibility and requirements for each. Applicants may apply for one or all of the positions on the same form. To see past participants view some of their youth insight posts.

Applications must be received by July 2, 2012.

• Access the application
• Access the recommendation form

Leadership Bodies

America’s Promise models youth involvement by having two youth leaders on both our Board of Directors and Alliance Trustees. Each youth is a full voting member of the leadership body and plays a valuable role in the strategic direction of the organization. Meet our current members.

Board of Directors - 2 year term (September 2012 – June 2014)
Our Board , which represents leaders from all sectors of America, provides leadership and oversight for the management of the organization.

Alliance Trustees - 2 year term (September 2012 – June 2014)
As leaders of key partner organizations in the America’s Promise Alliance, our Trustees help shape the Alliance’s priorities and initiatives. They serve in an advisory capacity to our Board of Directors.
Serving as a member of an Alliance leadership body is an exciting opportunity. It is also a responsibility.  Before applying, please review the following list and make sure you are able to meet the requirements and expectations.

• Be between the ages of 16-22 on July 30, 2012. Ideally, will not be graduating from college/university prior to June 2014.
• Attend three meetings yearly in Washington, DC (or other location) without a chaperone. The Alliance will cover all required travel costs for individuals chosen as members.
• Share a summary report with the Impact Network after each meeting.
• Have prior experience with an Alliance partner or other America’s Promise Alliance strategy (My Idea Grants, 100 Best, Grad Nation Communities, Impact Network, etc.)

Judging

In addition, we feel that young people should have a voice in all strategies of our work. Through competitions such as 100 Best Communities for Young People and the Journalism Awards, America’s Promise shines a spotlight on communities making a difference and the struggle to build a Grad Nation.  Youth judges will join expert panelist in determining winners of these special awards.

100 Best Communities for Young People Judge - 1 time opportunity (July 2012)
The 100 Best Communities for Young People presented by ING is a signature initiative of America’s Promise Alliance and an important part of the Grad Nation campaign. Each year, America's Promise and ING celebrate 100 deserving communities who effectively provide their youth with the Five Promises and work to increase graduation rates. Winning communities come from all across the country and are addressing the unique challenges they face.

Journalism Awards Judge - 1 time opportunity (Fall 2012)
These awards, created in partnership with the Journalism Center on Children & Families, recognize the efforts of journalists working to raise awareness about the needs of young people and those that inspire communities to act on behalf of youth.

Serving as a member of a judge is an exciting opportunity. It is also a responsibility.  Before applying, please review the following list and make sure you are able to meet the requirements and expectations.

• Be between the ages of 13-25 on July 30, 2012.
• Review contest materials and applications/submissions. Participate in a panel review call.
• Share a summary report with the Impact Network after each meeting.
• Have prior experience with an Alliance partner or other America’s Promise Alliance strategy (My Idea Grants, 100 Best, Grad Nation Communities, Impact Network, etc.)

Application Instructions & Guidelines

Please read the application thoroughly before completing. Applications must be received by July 2, 2012.

• Applications should be submitted through the online forms provided by America’s Promise Alliance.  Prior permission is required for applications submitted on paper or by other means.
• Membership is currently open only to US Citizens and those young people currently residing in the United States. All submissions should be in English. If an applicant is unable to complete the application in English, please contact the Alliance for assistance.
• Letters of recommendation will be submitted separately. Two letters of recommendation are required for Leadership Bodies. For Judging positions, letters are optional. recommenders should have good, first-hand knowledge of your skill set. Applicants have two options for submitting them:

1. Providing the following link to an online Recommendation Form to caring adults (preferred)
2. Letters of recommendation can be mailed to the address below or emailed to codyr@americaspromse.org.

* Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
* All decisions related to the Impact Network are the sole discretion of America’s Promise Alliance.

Point of Contact

Cody Ruxton
America’s Promise Alliance
1110 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20005
202.657.0624
Fax : 202.657.0603
Email: CodyR@americaspromise.org

Internship Opportunity: Emergency Management. Los Angeles, CA

POSITION    Emergency Management Intern

SALARY        $18.14 per hour or course credit per higher education institution


START DATE:       June 18
END DATE:            August 31


SCHEDULE

30 - 40 hours per week for 10 consecutive weeks with potential for extension based on performance


DUTIES

The City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department (EMD) is currently taking applications for the Summer Emergency Management Intern program. EMD’s highly competitive internship program, in the nation’s 2nd largest city, is open to graduate students interested in emergency management and pursuing a degree in emergency management, homeland security, public administration, strategic planning, or a related field. Interns will receive hands-on learning experiences, as they will be fully integrated into the Department and will be assigned projects related to emergency planning, emergency operations, communications, or community preparedness. Interns may also prepare reports, research, recommendations, and correspondence on behalf of EMD. Interns will have the opportunity to work with representatives from various City of Los Angeles departments, business partners, and non-profit organizations.


All participants in this program will be assigned a mentor who is an experienced emergency management professional. Interns will have access to City hosted emergency management trainings and related meetings, as available and at no cost. 


ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

EMD acts on behalf of the Mayor, the City Council, Emergency Operations Board (EOB), and Emergency Operations Organization (EOO) on all matters of city-wide emergency planning, training, mitigation, recovery, and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) readiness. 


The Department strives to coordinate and manage Citywide emergency management activities with the goals of increasing the preparedness of Angelenos; enhancing the City’s collective ability to plan for, mitigate, and respond to emergencies; and expanding the City’s continuity of operations/continuity of government capabilities. http://emergency.lacity.org

REQUIREMENTS 

All applicants must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Enrolled in or completed a graduate degree program at an accredited university, preferably in emergency management, homeland security, public administration, strategic planning, or a related field 
• Minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA preferred
• Strong oral and written communication skills; Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision; Detail-oriented; Creative thinker and ability to strategize and solve complex problems
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

Interested applicants should email a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to:   
       Gabriela Noriega, Program Coordinator, at Gabriela.Noriega@lacity.org


       Include “Internship Application” in the subject of your email.


       Applications for the summer cohort are due by June 1, 2012.


       Filing may close at any time without prior notice if a sufficient number of 
       applications have been received.


For more information visit: http://www.laemuc.org/home/Internship

Education: Out of the box thinking.

Endowment Activism: How Students Can Move Big Money

Think broke students have no power to influence Wall Street? Think again.

by Martha van Gelder     posted May 17, 2012

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/endowment-activism-how-students-can-move-big-money?utm_source=wkly20120518&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=titleGelder

Students are known for having an abundance of ideals, but not much money or power. But student

                          

Middlebury College is know for its focus on social responsibility and sustainability. Members of Middlebury's team attach solar panels to the roof of Self Reliance, their entry in the Dept of Energy Solar Decathlon.

Photo by Katie Romanov courtesy of Dept of Energy Solar Decathlon 

organizations around the country are finding ways to put thousands, sometimes millions of dollars behind sustainable companies.

At Middlebury College, members of the school’s Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) club are working to guide the school’s $900 million dollar endowment towards more sustainable investments.
They’ve joined a growing number of other schools in invoking the kind of ownership rights seldom embraced by the left: the right to influence the world through the tools of Wall Street, using their role as investors to spur change in powerful corporations.

“Colleges have the opportunity to be leaders in socially responsible investing because we combine liberal ideals with a huge amount of money,” says Olivia Grugan, a Middlebury senior and president of the SRI club.

Responsible investing

At Middlebury, a group of students started a Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) club and began working with the administration to set aside a part of the school’s $900 million endowment to be managed in a socially responsible way.

Having ethically managed funds was a priority for the club, and they initially asked that the school allocate 1 percent of its endowment to a fully transparent fund.

Middlebury’s administration was wary of sacrificing too much of the endowment’s money-making potential.
“Our endowment supports some major commitments we’ve made,” says Patrick Norton, chief financial officer of the college. “We have a commitment to future generations of students and can never put our funding stream at risk.”

As the stewards of significant pools of capital, colleges can also use their position as shareholders to influence the way the company operates.

But values and profits don’t have to be mutually exclusive, notes Dan Apfel, the executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, which regularly works with students to incorporate the principles of SRI into their schools’ endowments.

Grugan argues that socially conscious investing is part of the school’s responsibility. “Middlebury has a mission statement that includes language like ‘environmental stewardship’ and ‘global community,’” she says, “and those values are something we want reflected in the entirety of our endowment.”
In 2010, the school created a socially responsible fund of $4 million, to be matched with another $4 million raised through fundraising efforts.

The current size of the fund is $2.5 million, but students and administrators are hopeful that it will grow in the next few years. Although the fund is not managed by students, they were able to provide input on the general direction of the investments.

“When we got this fund, we had a couple of choices in what direction we could take it,” says Grugan. “We could try to make it the greenest fund ever, or we could aim to make it a model for how the entire endowment could someday be run. We chose the latter.”

The fund runs along the same line as a regular pool of investments, but weighs its decisions according to the “triple bottom line” of profit, people, and planet. As a result, its assets are spread among companies that lead their fields on environmental and social issues.

Shareholder activism

Steering money towards sustainable companies is not the only way to encourage the triple bottom line. As the stewards of significant pools of capital, colleges can also use their position as shareholders to influence the way the company operates.

“This is a really powerful type of investment activism,” says Grugan, “some would argue that it’s the most powerful—you’re utilizing your position within a company to change the way it operates.”

When Grugen discovered that a Middlebury-based fund owned shares in Exxon Mobil, she wondered if they could use their position as shareholders to influence Exxon’s position on the proposed KXL Pipeline that would carry the oil across the United States.

The students decided to join a coalition of socially minded Exxon Mobil investors who were attempting to bring a resolution about the risks of tar sands development to vote at the annual shareholders’ meeting. The mere act of holding a vote would signal the importance of the issue, and if the vote were to pass, it would put real pressure on the management to consider the risks of pipeline involvement.

                                       The Bank Vs. America Showdown
                        
In shareholders’ meetings and in the streets, how 99% Power is taking on Bank of America.

“Endowments are leaders in the financial world... We can lead in the shift towards making socially responsible investing the norm.”

Before the resolution could go to vote at the annual meeting, though, Exxon lawyers challenged it through the Securities and Exchange Commission, and it was dismissed.

The SEC dismissal of the Exxon shareholder resolution was a setback, but Grugan was encouraged that the small club had had a real impact on how the school managed its funds. “We had a five-student club, and we got $4 million allocated. What could we do if we had the whole student body on board?” she wondered.

Currently, the SRI club is devoting its energy to getting more students involved in the management of the school’s endowment. “This is a unifying tool,” says Grugan, “because no matter what your issue, you can use shareholder advocacy to further it.”

The potential of socially responsible investing

Values-based investing is a growing trend, and not just on college campuses. In 2010, almost one dollar out of eight was invested in a fund that is ethically screened in some way.

In 2008, the endowments from U.S. four-year institutions totaled over $400 billion. That represents a huge body of influence—if its custodians choose to wield it.

“Endowments are leaders in the financial world,” says Apfel. “We can lead in the shift towards making socially responsible investing the norm.”

And students aren’t the only ones who can participate in the direction of endowments; as a major source of donations, alumni can have a major influence. Says Apfel, “just sending a letter to your school asking where they invest and expressing your desire to donate to a socially responsible fund can be influential.”

“Where socially responsible investing is great is in its potential, which is largely untapped,” says Grugan. “Colleges are not doing all they can. This isn’t a solution story yet, but it could be. There is a lot of potential."

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Martha van Gelder wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Martha is a freelance journalist based in Washington DC. She tweets about sustainable investing and the tar sands at @marthavangelder.

Educational. U.S. State Department.

http://exchanges.state.gov/programs/secondary-school.html

For U.S. Participants

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)

The CBYX program is for German and American high school students, vocational students, and young professionals.

National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)

American students learn less commonly taught languages in overseas immersion programs.

Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad (YES Abroad) Program

American students study in Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Oman, Thailand, or Turkey.

Youth Leadership Programs

Students from various countries study topics that include civic education, leadership development, and community service. Programs include: Youth Leadership Programs, Youth Ambassadors, Benjamin Franklin Summer Institutes, American Youth Leadership Programs. 

Educational. International Students. U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

http://exchanges.state.gov/programs/secondary-school.html

For non-U.S. Participants

American Serbia and Montenegro Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE)

Serbian and Montenegrin students have the chance to live with a host family and attend a U.S. high school.

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)

The CBYX program is for German and American high school students, vocational students, and young professionals.

English Access Microscholarship Program

The English Access Microscholarship Program provides a foundation of English language skills to talented 14–18 year-olds from disadvantaged sectors through after-school classes and intensive summer sessions.

Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program

Students from Eurasia have the chance to live with a host family and attend a U.S. high school.

Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program

The YES program allows students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the U.S..

TechGirls

TechGirls, a U.S. Department of State initiative, is an international exchange program designed to empower young girls to pursue careers in the science and technology sectors.

Youth Leadership Programs

Students from various countries study topics that include civic education, leadership development, and community service. Programs include: Youth Leadership Programs, Youth Ambassadors and Benjamin Franklin Summer Institutes. 

"Generations of Power" 8th Annual NAACP Leadership 500 Summit May 24-27, 2012

8th Annual NAACP Leadership 500 Summit
"Generations of Power"

Leaders are not born, they're developed.

 Either because of opportunity or necessity, someone takes charge and leads the way. Effective leadership is a destination achieved through careful thought, consideration and action.

TEXT L500 to 62227 (NAACP) to receive updates and announcements about the 2012 Leadership 500 Summit. (Standard message & data rates may apply)


          Hotel Registration   Welcome from the Chairman   Schedule-At-A-Glance

               
Register here for the Sandestin   
Please be sure to make your hotel reservations for the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort Village of Baytowne  Wharf  Grand Complex.  The complex consists of the Grand Sandestin (main building), The Lasata, The Bahia, The Elation.


Resort Amenities include: Complimentary on-property resort transportation; two bicycles per unit for up to four hours of usage daily; fitness center usage; one hour per day of tennis court time (based on availability) one hour per day usage on either a canoe, kayak or boogie board.


  Roslyn M. Brock
Chairman, NAACP Board of Directors
Chairman & Founder, Leadership 500 Summit
The NAACP Leadership 500 Summit offers a venue for corporate, business, academic, community, and civic leaders to participate in leadership development seminars and forums that provide the opportunity for the NAACP to directly engage them in its current civil rights agenda. I look forward to your participation in this year's Summit.


 

Get a detailed view of all the events planned for the 2012 NAACP Leadership 500 Summit.

For general questions regarding the 2012 NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, please contact the Chairman's Office at (410)580-5102  

http://www.l500.org/index2.html

Gathering will set agenda, create continuing network of nation’s emerging leaders

No Ties!

The NAACP 8th Annual Leadership 500 Summit will be held May 24 – 27, 2012, at the Sandestin Resortin Destin, Florida. Participants will attend 2 ½ days of thought provoking,  interactive panel discussions, strategy sessions, and facilitated general sessions led by prominent private sector, non-profit, corporate and community leaders.
“Leadership By Design; Ensuring Our Legacy” strategy sessions will address the NAACP “Game Changer” Initiatives that strengthen our ability to be effective advocates individually and collectively effecting  real social change in our communities. Throughout the weekend, economic development and entrepreneurship; civic engagement and voting rights; criminal justice; education; health advocacy and environmental justice are topics for discussion. Professionals in finance, education, political leaders, lawyers, healthcare providers, environmentalists, and leaders in the civil rights and social justice arena, will lend their knowledge to help create innovative and effective strategies for advancing positive change for our families, communities and our society.
Since its inception in 2005, Leadership 500 has served as a fertile training ground for leadership development, professional networking, partnerships and effective civil rights and social justice advocacy for more than 3,500 mid-level professionals who have attended the Summit.  They have returned to their respective professions in the public and private sector, empowered as leaders, to contribute in a meaningful way to their place of business and to their respective community.
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. With more than ½ million members in state/area conferences, branches and youth units, throughout the United States and abroad, the NAACP is the paramount voice of advocacy for civil rights, social justice, and equal opportunity for all in communities throughout the world.