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Founded in 2019, Leadership Advantage Institute is dedicated to providing skills-based leadership and professional development training to high achieving Black, Hispanic, Native American, and underrepresented students to best position graduates for an entry-level career and further educational purposes.
Founded in 2019, Leadership Advantage Institute is dedicated to providing skills-based leadership and professional development training to high achieving Black, Hispanic, Native American, and underrepresented students to best position graduates for an entry-level career and further educational purposes.
Objectives
Objectives
I. Effectively target the opportunity gap between students in underserved communities and their well-represented peers across race, ethnicity, class, and orientation.
II. Ensure students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities matriculate and graduate on-time and be better positioned for graduate school or an entry-level career.
Goals
Goals
Develop Leadership Advantage Program (Leadership AP): cost-free, 5 year program supporting college freshmen students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This cohort of ethnically diverse individuals receive one-on-one personal and professional development.
Through community partnerships, mentorship, and civic engagement, the organization curates robust educational & developmental programming to supplement learnings from the student’s respective college or university.
Strategies
Strategies
Education Consultation: partner with freshmen attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities to translate student career goals into majors and outline skillsets required to achieve excellence— navigating college; study abroad; internship strategies.
Personal Development: holistic approach for individuals to promote internal work. Seek to challenge students to understand and develop their identity as well as how their identity is perceived by others. Extensive work with identity markers and Emotional Quotient (EQ).
Professional Development: prepare students including financial literacy, etiquette development, and career coaching, including exposure to Fortune 500 partners, career readiness workshops, and end-to-end internship support.
Leadership Development: educating individuals on the power of their voice through community building and civic engagement; social and economic justice
Organizational Capabilities
Organizational Capabilities
Extensive partnership with Board of Directors, CEO, vast network of corporate partners, and volunteers within the community.
Progress Updates (6/2020)
Progress Updates (6/2020)
This organization’s Board of Directors, employees, and volunteers are career professionals within Financial Services, Technology, Film & Entertainment, Higher Education, & Insurance. Students will have access to premier Fortune 500 career opportunities.
Access to students, faculty, and administrators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities 01/16/2020 - 03/02/2020
PR and Communications advisor onboarded on 06/22/2020
Funding is still needed to support application openings for Fall 2020.
We're attempting to generate a small revenue stream through our Career Institute to support student initiatives within Leadership AP.
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