CENTER FOR SOCIAL LEADERSHIP
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Mission Statement
The purpose of The Center for Social Leadership is two-fold: To teach nonprofit leaders the leadership and management skills to lead a high performance organization and to teach low-income youth the necessary career-building leadership skills to design their own exit strategies from poverty. The Young Leaders Program teaches low-income Washington D.C. youth how to become leaders in their professional lives. The anticipated outcome of this program is that low-income D.C. high-school aged youth use the leadership skills gained in the program to exit from poverty by becoming most often the first in their families to continue on to higher education and high-wage, meaningful employment.
About This Cause
Anthony Silard, (Executive Director) established The Center for Social Leadership in 2004 with Robert Walker (Executive Director of The Frank H. and Eva B. Buck Foundation in Northern California) joining as Vice-President of the Board. Anthony previously served for eight years as Executive Director of Global Education Partnership, an international youth organization for which Anthony raised $12 million, managed a staff of 35 and provided business and job skills training programs to disadvantaged youth in the Washington D.C., Oakland (California), Kenya, Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia and capacity building programs for their school leaders. Prior to starting G.E.P., Anthony was a teacher for four years at Wilson High School, Dunbar High School, McKinley High School and Shaw Jr. High School in Washington DC, and at Kiwinda Secondary School (as a Peace Corps Volunteer) in Kenya. After 18 months of planning, forming partnerships with community-based organizations and researching the needs of low-income youth in Washington, CSL offered its first Young Leaders Program (YLP) in September 2005 to 25 low-income youth in partnership with Capital Partners for Education and The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund. CSL followed-up with three additional YLPs in 2006 in partnership with Life Pieces to Masterpieces, The Cesar Chavez Public Charter School, Concerned Black Men and LINK. In summers 2007 and 2008 CSL’s fifth and sixth YLPs were funded with $40,000 and $60,000 grants (the second grant also includes funding for Follow-up Services for the YLP graduates) from The FBR Charitable Foundation and implemented in partnership with community-based youth organizations such as The Boys and Girls Clubs, The Good Samaritan Foundation, Capital Partners for Education and The Hispanic College Fund. In 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, the primary sponsor of the YLP was the Gallup Organization, which also provided classroom space for the program. 20, 32, 29, 32, and 33 youth participated during each of these four years, respectively. Key community-based program partners during these four years included Hispanics Against Child Abuse and Neglect (HACAN), Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boys and Girls Club, Mentors, Inc., the Hispanic College Fund, the Black Student Fund, Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY), Washington Jesuit Academy, Asian American LEAD, the Seed Public Charter School and the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School. In 2014, the George Washington University School of Business provided classroom space for the YLP and the International Monetary Fund hosted a field trip and resumé workshop for 34 youth participants that included over 40 IMF employees as volunteer mentors. CSL has currently served 378 Washington-area youth and the Young Leaders Program is now the only youth leadership program in the city that focuses exclusively on teaching leadership as a distinct skill that low-income youth can leverage to build their careers and pursue higher education. CSL’s mission is two-fold and focuses on providing much-needed leadership skills and training to two marginalized segments of our population: First, CSL aims to build a stronger and more engaged civic society by facilitating participatory leadership development programs that enable committed nonprofit executives to more effectively lead their organizations. Second, we work to teach low-income youth the necessary leadership skills to design their own exit strategies from poverty by successfully pursuing higher education and a meaningful career. There are two precepts to the Young Leaders Program (YLP): 1) Leadership is a distinctive skill that a young person can leverage to get into the college of their choice and advance in their ideal career. 2) Leadership can be taught. Based on our Leadership Principle 'Be a Clock-Builder, Not a Time-Teller', derived from Jim Collins’ book Built to Last, YLP youth leadership is much more about being a back-stage architect than a front-stage star, or about being systematic rather than charismatic. Based on these two precepts, the Young Leaders Program helps young people discover their own potential so that they may find success in high school and beyond.