Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

College Scholarship Program (National)

• High School Applicants
• College Undergraduate Applicants
• Graduate Applicants

Application Deadline:In the Fall

Award Range:$1,000-$5,000

Minimum GPA:3.00Citizenship:Must be legal permanent resident or U.S. citizen

Eligibility Criteria:

• Must of Hispanic heritage
• Must be an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled full-time in a degree-seeking program at an accredited U.S. college or university in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam
• Must have earned at least 12 undergraduate units in a U.S. accredited college or university
• Must have applied for federal financial aid
• Must be pursuing first undergraduate or graduate degree

Application Requirements:

Application available online in August

Website for Application Download:http://www.hsf.net/scholarships.aspx 

National Scholarship Sponsored by MillerCoors 

To Whom Is This Open?  College Undergraduate Applicants

Application Deadline: In the Summer

Award Range: $1,000-$3,000 

Minimum GPA: 3.00 

Citizenship:Must be legal permanent resident or U.S. citizen

Eligibility Criteria:

• Be eligible for JUNIOR or SENIOR status at a college or university by Fall 2009.
• Pursue a degree in the following: International Business, General Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Public Relations, or Sales.
• Maintain full-time enrollment status throughout duration of the scholarship term.
• Attend a Participating University (see Partner Institutions).
• Participate in Adelante's Annual Leadership Institute in the Fall

Application Requirements:

The Labor Community Strategy Center is hosting its 4th Summer Youth Organizing Academy for the summer of 2009.

SYOA challenges youth to learn the theory and engage in the practice of building a multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-lingual movement for civil-rights. As a participant you will have the opportunity to work with Bus Riders Union, the Community Rights Campaign, and the Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign—three projects of the Strategy Center.

• recruit, train and mobilize students for political action
• help students better understand and connect with the labor movement
• develop leadership skills needed to advance student interests

Interns to serve 5 hours/week for fall and spring semesters (not finals week); stipend of $ 1,000 each semesterAction Fight against FEE HIKES and College BUDGET CUTS by learning how to: Build coalitions with the Los Angeles Labor MovementGet your message to legislators in their local district offices Mobilize students and organize a campus rally to fight back email zknorr@gmail.com if interested. Include campus, name, address, phone number and email address

CAN STUDENTS FIGHT BACK? YES WE CAN!

Are you interested in working in labor?  For any students who are interested in working with UNITE HERE, please contact the recruiter (info below) if you have questions.  For students who have some prior union or other organizing/activist experience, there are currently  organizing positions available in Chicago and Providence, RI., and a sort of internship in multiple locations.

If you have students who are interested, please contact:

Strengthening Our Lives (SOL) is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for “Walk The Talk,” a Voter Registration Internship, for summer of 2009 in various locations through California.  SOL is offering 50 paid internships as part of our non-partisan voter registration drives throughout California in an effort to encourage youth to learn essential leadership skills they can use in their careers while being part of a program that will change the politics of California. 

For further information and application, please visit the following link: http://sites.google.com/a/sol-california.com/wtt/ 

Woodrow W. Clark, II spoke to hundreds of students and faculty at Pierce College on Thursday, April 16, 2009 about the environment, the green economy and technology and what going green means for their educational and professional pursuits.  Dr. Clark presented a PowerPoint presentation, showing data, images and information about how we got where we are today and what viable options there are for the future so that we can have renewable energy resources and help our economy grow in a responsible sustainable fashion.  The presentation concluded with remarks on what going green means for the future of jobs and how students can prepare for the Third Industrial Revolution.  The presentation ended with a question and answer session where students and faculty were able to ask Dr. Clark questions about what they can do in light of what is happening to our environment and our economy.  Dr. Clark generously provided a copy of his presentation to add to our web resources.

April 4 is  the anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have Been to the Mountaintop" speech--his final speech before his assassination on the following day April 4, 1968.It is in his memory that we send out this 1-page educational sheet about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's last campaign.