Youth Empowerment Program
Overview
The program provides a structured path for young generations to deepen their understanding of civic engagement. We offer a wide array of opportunities to build capacity for leadership among children, university students, fresh graduates, and middle-aged generations to enhance their ability to become more civically engaged and to positively impact society through social entrepreneurship, mentorship, and creativity. All civic engagement activities and programs offered by the center are based on the experiential learning approach and social constructivism pedagogy, which includes the following:
Activities and Programs
Civic Engagement Programs for Children
Intensive, focused, short-term learning winter and summer camps for children aged 6 to 12. The core aspect of the camps is to promote civic engagement and endorse the idea of social responsibility among young generations. The camps support the Center’s main purpose of serving as an incubator of knowledge, responsible business practices, civic leadership, and capacity building to promote effective social responsibility.
Engaged Generation Bootcamp
To expand AUC students’ breadth of knowledge about academic theories and learning techniques, expanding their social and cultural understanding and helping them in bringing about positive societal change, the engaged generation bootcamp was launched in 2019 within the “Summer at AUC Program”.
University-based Civic Engagement Programs
Our university-based programs aim to develop a generation of civic leaders to create community-engaged learning environments in the Arab region and to strengthen the center’s presence as a civic hub on AUC campus, Egyptian public and private universities, and Arab higher education at large.
National and Regional Competitions
The competitions seek to acknowledge the efforts and amplify the voices of civil society leaders, providing them with a platform to share their endeavors with specialists in the field. It encourages the exchange of best practices, offers experience in overcoming challenges, and bolsters youth potential through civic engagement.
Community-Based Initiatives
The program helps participants realize, plan, develop, and implement their innovative sustainable solutions to local community challenges. Additionally, the program provides training on project management, leadership, team building, problem-solving, and using open-source technology in social innovation.
Civic Engagement Programs for Fresh Graduates
Leadership Programs
The center offers various youth leadership programs to selected university graduates to work in civil society organizations and advance their dreams to make a difference in their field of interest. Our Leadership Programs give fresh graduates the knowledge, skills, and on-ground experience to actively and positively participate in the development of their communities.
The Lazord Fellowship hosted by the Gerhart Center
The fellowship is offered by the Gerhart Center in partnership with the Lazord Foundation; this one-year fellowship program provides fresh graduates interested in pursuing a career in civil society with professional experience in socially engaged organizations. The program provides the fellows with weekly training sessions and mentorship. A bi-annual exchange takes place between the three-chapter partners in the form of conferences.
Alumni and Volunteering Activities
Now alumni can give back to their societies through volunteering in beneficial, humane activities in our Youth Empowerment Program. With a network of more than 1000 alumni, the main objective of the activities is to bring all alumni together while creating a sense of union, raising awareness about the distinction between philanthropy and charity, and leveraging social responsibility among different segments of youth.
Civic Engagement Programs for Middle-Aged
Social Entrepreneurship/ Employability Programs
This program promotes the social enterprise movement and creative economy efforts giving access to the creative community for capacity-building opportunities and spaces for incubation and scaling up creative enterprises. The theory of change for this program depends on creating champions by providing them with the needed resources, knowledge, and access to opportunities to help them create sustainable projects and businesses. The program depends on creating an incubation that is a sustainable model and has a long-term impact.
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