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Collegiate Women of Color Leadership Development Institute Application
Collegiate Women of Color Leadership Development Institute
Brochure
March 21, 2006
Women
of Color Leadership Development Institute
The W. K.
Kellogg Foundation awarded the Foundation for Independent Higher
Education (FIHE) located in Washington,
DC a $200,000 grant to
prepare young collegiate women of color as future leaders in order
to increase gender and diversity in the workplace. The goal of the
program is to identify fifty (50) young women of color with
leadership aptitude and provide them with opportunities to learn,
test, and improve their leadership skills, support them in putting
their skills to good use in their communities, and raise their
aspirations.
The selected
young collegiate women of color will participate in a leadership
development institute
from
Thursday, August 10 – Sunday, August 13, 2006
in the
Baltimore/Washington area. Each selected participant will be
provided with a $1,500 stipend during their senior year of college
while they complete a leadership internship on their campus or in
the community or at a corporation. The internship is designed to
provide the participants with initial leadership experience.
Dr. Algeania
Warren Freeman, the founder and project director for the Women of
Color Leadership Development project and Vice President of
Development for FIHE, states that “Although women of color have made
considerable progress in acquiring and serving successfully in
senior leadership positions, the struggle continues. Thus,
preparation and inspiration must start at an earlier stage so that
these potential future women leaders will start to dream about how
they will be able to make significant contributions to their
communities, our nation and the world as servant leaders.
Ultimately, the goal of the project has less to do with individuals
and more to do with community—and the need to increase diversity of
race and gender in leadership roles throughout our society and its
institutions.” The project will also honor and induct 50 women into
the Women’s Leadership Hall of Fame during the Leadership
Development Institute. To be eligible for induction, the current
women leaders must be willing to serve as a mentor for one year to
the 50 future women leaders.
One of the
anticipated outcomes is that eighty percent of the women of color
participants will acquire a junior-level leadership position within
ten-years of completion of the program thus enriching gender and
diversity in the marketplace and in society. Dr. Freeman invites
women leaders who are interested in serving as a mentor in this
project to contact her at
afreeman@fihe.org.
To be
eligible to participate in the program, the young women of color
must complete their junior year at one of FIHE’s 650 private
colleges or universities, have a 3.0 academic average, write an
essay, and secure two letters of reference.
Applications may be
obtained from the 650 institutions, or by contacting Mr.
José Manuel
Palacios at
jpalacios@fihe.org or at (202) 367-0333.
For nearly
half a century, The Foundation for Independent Higher Education has
ensured that investments in higher education yield powerful results
for educational achievement at American’s private colleges and
universities. Today, the Foundation is the national partner in a
network of 36 state and regional independent college funds and more
than 650 affiliated private colleges and universities.
The W.K.
Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 “to help people help
themselves through the practical application of knowledge and
resources to improve their quality of life and that of future
generations.” Its programming activities center around the common
vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts
responsibility for self, family, community, and societal well-being;
and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing
families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities.
To achieve
the greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward
specific areas. These include: health; food systems and rural
development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism.
Within these areas, attention is given to exploring learning
opportunities in leadership; information and communication
technology; capitalizing on diversity; and social and economic
community development. Grants are concentrated in the United States,
Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries
of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland,
and Zimbabwe.
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