ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS
The Sadie Nash Leadership Project (SNLP) is a unique educational model that includes rigorous coursework, mentoring, as well as service, experiential, and skill learning, including community organizing and youth-designed activism projects. Every aspect of the program is designed to support and develop young women to both visualize themselves as leaders and actualize their leadership.
The structure of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project is designed to put the young women's notions of leadership through a process of transformation. At every stage in this process, high expectations are expressed for what girls can achieve and how their personal experience is deeply relevant to the cause for action.
The programs cover the following stages of leadership development:
TWO-YEAR PROGRAM
Sadie Nash’s two-year leadership program is for young
women ages 14-18 in high school in New York City. It is a program
which initially asks for a commitment in our Summer Institute,
but over 90% of our students continue in our Community Action
Placement program and over 80% continue into our Leadership Action
Project program. Students begin the two-year program by applying to and entering the Summer Institute.
Summer Institute (SI or 1st Summer)
The SI is an opportunity for young women to take time to look
at their own leadership, their potential leadership, and the
leadership of others while developing a strong community of
female peers. The SI is a unique full-time summer program
that is made up of twenty-five young women currently attending
high school. The young women meet women Leaders, like
activists, doctors, politicians, artists, and writers; attend
challenging and inspiring courses (on leadership and identity
as well as on topics such as human rights, education policy,
sociology, women’s history); while strengthening, empowering
and equipping themselves to be agents for change in their world.
For more information on the Summer Leadership Institute, click
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Community Action Placement (CAP)
Each young woman is placed in a progressive community organization
that meets her interests and needs. The young women “intern” at
that organization for 8 months from mid-October through mid-May
for approximately 8 hours per month (2 hours/week). A critical
aspect of CAP is examining the structure and leadership of the
organization, interviewing the staff & constituents, and
developing a thorough understanding of the organization. During
this time, SNLP provides: close oversight of the placements
as well as personal check-ins and meetings every month. The
young women are paid by SNLP for their work at the organizations.
CAP is a skill development, service learning, and community
leadership-training program. FOR MORE ABOUT CAP CLICK HERE>>
Leadership Action Projects (LAP)
LAP provides participants an opportunity to attend SNLP for a second summer for additional training on community organizing and collective activism through the development of LAPs. In 2005, Nashers expressed the need for more training in how to address an issue collectively in order to make change. And since then, the LAP program has been greatly enhanced and formally explores the skills and strategies necessary for an organizing project as well as prepares the young women for individual social justice projects that they conduct during the academic year. In summer 2006, LAP was further strengthened by hiring a seasoned community organizer to serve as faculty for the program.
ELLA: Engage, Listen, Lead, Act
(1 year)
The new ELLA Fellowship program is based on Sadie Nash Leadership Project’s central philosophy that opportunities for community leadership are integral to addressing issues affecting young women as both leaders and catalysts for effective social change. ELLA stands for Engage, Listen, Lead, Act but also represents the spirit of the social justice leader, Ella Baker. Ella is also the word for she in Spanish. This new program offers young women (ages 16-22) in-depth leadership training and support while they implement a meaningful and ambitious leadership project of their own design with and/or for a group they identify as their community. Over the one-year period of the project, SNLP would offer each Fellow specialized and professionally guided training and curriculum, a stipend and budget for project implementation, and the full support of the SNLP community throughout the year.
NASH UNIVERSITY
(Nash U.)
Nash University offers young women (ages 14-21) comprehensive and inspiring educational programming that focuses on the practical side of leadership. Nash University meets the need and demand for training and education that focuses on leadership, self-reliance, and skill-building. The courses at Nash University incorporate the current strengths of the Sadie Nash model by including rigorous academics, role modeling, and community building. Nash University offers courses under four main categories:
- Academic college-level courses (exploring topics such
as human rights, the politics of elections, education policy,
medical ethics, conscious capitalism, etc.);
- Practical skill building courses (such as public speaking,
essay writing, standardized test taking, college admissions,
financial self-sufficiency);
- Emotional, physical and mental health courses (such
as stress management, nutrition, athletics, violence prevention);
- Leadership development courses (exploring different forms
of effective leadership such as community organizing, advocacy,
direct service, and creative expression).
For more info on Nash U. click here
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LEADERSHIP AT SADIE
NASH
The young women of Sadie Nash formally engage in critical aspects of Sadie Nash’s
organizational structure including program development, hiring,
recruitment, and evaluation. The young women are also creating
a Youth Advisory Committee, which sends full voting members to
the Board of Directors.
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