New Faces in Leadership
For the Campus. For the City. For the Future.

Act Six is a leadership and scholarship program that connects urban ministries and faith-based colleges in order to equip emerging urban leaders to engage the college campus and their communities at home through a four-part strategy:

1. Recruit and Select
   Locally recruit and select diverse, multicultural cadres of a city's most promising emerging urban leaders.
2. Train and Prepare
   

   Intensively train these groups of students in the year prior to college, equipping them to support each other, succeed academically, and grow as service-minded leaders and agents of transformation.

3. Send and Fund
   Send the teams together to faith-based partner colleges with unsurpassed scholarships.
4. Support and Inspire
   

   Provide strong campus support and ongoing leadership development to nurture these young people as they find their vocation and grow into the next generation of community leaders.

Scholar Demographics

 

After selecting 16 cadres for seven partner colleges from four cities in Washington and Oregon, the first 139 Northwest Act Six scholars have the following characteristics:

• 34% African American, 25% mixed heritage, 18% Hispanic, 17% Asian Pacific Islander, 5% Caucasian, 2% American Indian
• represent 6 continents of the world & speak 13 native languages
• 54% female
• 69% first generation college students
• 62% low-income (eligible for a federal Pell grant)
• 79% first generation or low-income
• median 3.4 high school gpa

Measures of Success

The effectiveness and impact of the Act Six initiative are indicated by the following:

• 94% of scholars in first three cadres will have graduated by December 2009

• 62% of first graduates are working or serving in their home communities

• 17% of first graduates are pursuing or have earned graduate degrees

• 93% of the first 139 scholars have graduated or are still enrolled

• scholars have been awarded more than $5.5 million in scholarships and grants, with another $7.9 million pledged over the next four years

• are assuming significant leadership roles on campus, including numerous club presidents and two student government presidents

• scholars are engaged in numerous community internships and service opportunities