Emerging Leaders in Civic Action

• To encourage passionate young leaders to design and do community impact/civic engagement projects and get hands-on experiences in real world

• To give opportunities to the young leaders to present their project plans in front of  professionals and public 

• To support the young leaders to do their project by providing mini grant and other resources if the pitching is successful 

• To inspire the audience in community service and civic engagement

• To connect young leaders, community leaders, organizations in community impact/civic engagement 

This is open to the student groups nationwide who are interested in community impact/civic engagement. Please see below for the criteria.

• Any group of high school or college students that is doing or planning to do a community impact/civic engagement project 

• The project needs to be nonprofit and nonpartisan and already has a complete project plan 

• The project planning and implementation need to be led by the students

• The group belongs to a 501C(3) organization or has a 501C(3) organization as its fiscal agent