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 promising urban student 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.
3. Send and Fund
   Send the teams together for four years of fully funded education at partner colleges.
4. Support and Inspire
   Provide strong campus support, ongoing leadership development and vocational connections to inspire scholars to serve their home communities.

Two-Way Street

Many scholarship programs operate as one-way streets where the student recipients are viewed as the sole beneficiaries of the programs. Act Six, however, is fundamentally based on the belief that while urban students clearly need and benefit from the kind of education that quality colleges provide, college campuses in America also desperately need the wealth and diversity of experience, perspective, and leadership that emerging leaders from our urban centers possess.

In the same spirit that the early Christian Church strategically responded to an inequity in the distribution of a critical resource by empowering minority leadership that would ultimately propel the Church toward its mission to the ends of the earth (Acts 6:1–7), Act Six operates on the conviction that both our cities and our colleges desperately need the kind of leadership that Act Six scholars embody.

Learn More

• Fact Sheet
• National Office
• Affiliates and Colleges
• Need for Act Six