FLI
Program
In 2006-07, FLI will serve 75 diverse students from ten public and Catholic high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. FLI participants conceive and initiate projects that provide concrete, lasting benefits to the community. In the past, FLI participants have:
- Created a nutrition curriculum and hunger-awareness project that became part of the school health curriculum
- Launched an annual clothing drive and free image consulting to benefit Oakland welfare recipients seeking jobs
- Given music lessons and led a final performance that raised money and volunteer support for a public high school’s special-education department
- Created a Power Point presentation and organized an all-school assembly on the long- and short-term effects of commonly used psychoactive drugs
- Created an arts and crafts activity program for terminally ill students at Kaiser Hospital
- Started a senior-class tutoring program serving all interested incoming freshmen
- Developed local photographic exhibitions that raised money for and awareness of homelessness
The Future Leaders Institute provides streamlined curriculum and trains well-liked and well-respected teachers at each partnering high school to be “FLI Guides.” Teams of two FLI Guides serve a FLI Team of 12-15 dynamically diverse students. FLI participants attend bi-weekly meetings and receive individual coaching from their FLI Guides, school credit and $200 to launch their FLI projects. Each FLI participant:
- Articulates a personal dream or passion
- Identifies and interview community leaders who have realized the FLI member’s dream
- Identifies three possible projects that create a significant community benefit by engaging his/her dream
- Researches the feasibility and social return-on-investment of the potential projects
- Creates and manage a budget
- Selects and initiate the project with maximum projected social impact
- Recruits support from peers, press, and community leaders
- Publicly presents his/her community impact and legacy at the Final Community Presentation
