THE PROGRAM:
Leadership Training Day: A two hour and thirty minute interactive and introspective video-based leadership training with workbooks designed to help students identify their fears/limitations and clarify their purpose/goals.
Success Networking Teams (SNTs): Students meet in teams to help set and hold one another accountable to goals using a highly specialized formula proven to produce results. By surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals, you will be exposed to peer mentoring which will lead to positive change in your life.
The Society also encourages and organizes students into action to better the world. By surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals, you will be exposed to peer mentoring which will lead to positive change in your life.
If this sounds like something that you would like to be a part of, please visit our website at http://www.societyleadership.org/intern/CLSPFL2012 to submit your resume and application.
The paid Society Internship is a unique experience offering you a chance to develop skills in:
• Management – direct a 12-person executive board
• Budgeting – develop and implement a budget for speakers, community service and social events
• Fundraising – get your community involved supporting the leaders of tomorrow
• Communication – implement cutting edge technology during interactive broadcast events
• Public Speaking – represent The National Society of Leadership and Success on your campus
• Marketing – create local marketing campaigns to enhance your chapter’s image and involvement
• Public Relations – develop relationships with administrators and groups on campus
What are some of the benefits of being a Society intern?
• All expense paid 2 day leadership training retreat
• Paid $1500 Stipend
• On campus internship with flexible hours around class schedule
• Develop the essential leadership skills employers and graduate schools are looking for
• Capability to empower others to see your vision and leave a legacy on your campus
• Other great benefits – scholarships and awards, online job bank, access to Success Coaches, customized personalized letter of recommendation, access to several years of past Speaker Broadcasts, Interview Series (audio interviews with experts on various topics), use of a resource collection of leadership books and CD’s, Motivational Mondays (weekly e-mails with five-minutes of motivational audio recordings), and participation in Success Networking Teams.
What does an intern do?
This is a chance to develop your own chapter of the Society, leaving a legacy on your campus. Some of the steps you’ll accomplish along the way:
• Find an advisor
• Recruit an executive board
• Attend an all-expense-paid intern training retreat
• Register as a Student Organization
• Help the National Office send invitations to students at your school
• Schedule speaker events
• Lead Success Networking Teams (a peer-to-peer accountability group)
• Organize fundraisers to pay the national dues
• Host social events to create a strong community of leaders
• Participate in weekly coaching sessions with an Intern Coordinator
To apply for the National Society of Leadership and Success Internship Program please apply at:
http://societyleadership.org/intern/CLSPFL2012
Apply now as only one intern is hired per campus and qualified candidates are accepted immediately upon successful completion of the hiring process.
Study them as neighborhood boys study the man with that Bentley. They analyze their actions, words and personality; those boys soon begin imitating what they see. This can be done in any field but its best when used for a respectable career that creates wealth and progression in neighborhoods.
Chief Inspiration Officer
Mrs. Chanel “Ambitious” Ballard
A day filled with obstacles has the potential to be a day that ends in victory. Every day is not perfect but it doesn’t mean today doesn’t have purpose.
I encourage you to find beauty in your struggle and use this hard lesson to help you achieve your future goals. If life was peachy, easy and predictable it wouldn’t be worth living. You have the power and ability to be great. In fact, you are already amazing, you just don’t know how or why. Examine your life, gifts, friends, family, actions and situations to discover the purpose that has been apart of you since birth.
You have the power to make your life and others lives better. Don’t you think it’s about time you start living your life with PURPOSE!
Rise2Power Project
CIO- Chanel Ambitious Ballard
Video Kirk Franklin- “I Smile”
July 14, 2011
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
Special to the NNPA from America’s Wire
LOS ANGELES — Krystal Murphy received her first cellphone at age 13, and she used it solely to keep her parents in the loop about her activities. Four years later, her use of the phone has changed dramatically. Now 17, she relies on it to text friends, surf the Internet and send messages on Twitter.
“I’m on my cell all day, every day, as soon as I wake up and until I go to bed,” says the African American teen from South Los Angeles.
According to a Northwestern University study of youth media consumption, Krystal’s habits are widespread among young people of color. Released in June, “Children, Media and Race: Media Use Among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Children” found that those between ages 8 and 18 use cellphones, television, computers and other electronic devices to consume an average of 13 hours of media content daily. That’s 4-1/2 hours more than their White counterparts.
The study has renewed debate about whether minority youths spend too much time on media consumption and not enough on reading and studying. While some people insist that the disparity in media consumption contributes to the education gap between minority and White youths, others cite it as a positive that can aid a child’s educational growth.
“I think that the results of this study coupled with the other factors that we know influence student performance,” says Sharon Lewis, research director for the Council of the Great City Schools, an advocate for urban public schools and students. “When you combine all of this together, it’s another indication that we need to take extra steps to reach [minority] youth.
“Factors such as health, such as preschool experience, such as a sibling that may not have graduated, such as coming from a single-parent household and then you add this [media consumption] to it—it’s another indication.”
Past reports have shown a correlation between television viewing and low academic performance. A 20-year study of 678 families released in 2007 by the New York State Psychiatric Institute found that teens who watched three or more hours of television daily had an 82 percent greater chance of not graduating from high school when compared with those who watched less than an hour. However, critics of that study say students who struggle academically may be more inclined to watch TV to avoid the rigors of schoolwork.
The Northwestern study is said to be the first in the United States to examine children’s media use by race. Nearly 1,900 youths participated. The study reanalyzed data from previous Kaiser Family Foundation studies on media consumption, finding that racial differences in children’s media use remained static when accounting for socioeconomic status or whether youths came from single- or two-parent homes.
The results, which appeared to counter concerns about a possible digital divide and may give parents and educators new strategies to meet needs of minority youths, surprised Ellen Wartella, head of Northwestern’s Center on Media and Human Development. She co-authored the study.
“Recreational media use is an enormous part of young people’s lives, more than we ever thought,” she says. “It’s quite clear we have a group of young people who are tethered to their technology.”
The report finds that Black and Latino youths spend one to two more hours daily watching TV and videos, an hour more listening to music, up to 90 minutes more on computers and 90 minutes on cellphones, and 30 to 40 minutes more playing video games than White youths. During the past decade, Black youths have doubled their daily media use, and Latino youths have quadrupled theirs, according to Wartella.
Asian American youths also consume more media than their White peers. Asians lead all groups in use of mobile devices at 3 hours and 7 minutes daily, compared with 2 hours and 53 minutes for Latinos, 2 hours and 52 minutes for Blacks and just 80 minutes for Whites. Asians also spend 14 more minutes daily watching traditional TV than do White youths and more than an hour daily than Whites watching TV online, via TiVo or on DVD. Nevertheless, Asian American youths remain high academic achievers, challenging the contention that media consumption hurts student performance.
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Minority Academic Achievement
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The key is not to worry about being successful but to instead work toward being significant—and the success will naturally follow.
Oprah Says- What is your failure here to teach you?
Ms. Chanel Ambitious Ballard
Shawanna Collins and Shakea Jerry. These dynamic groups of young ladies that engage in regular community service have done everything from pass out care packages to the homeless to hold events for inner city youth. They are taking on another cause, Domestic Violence.
On July 17th they’re holding a march against domestic violence but this isn’t your average walk for a cause. They’ll be walking in stilettos and heels. Yes, beautiful women, walking down the street enduring pain, cause lord knows their feet will be hurting, to bring light to this common occurrence.
This is surely worth my time; I hope you’ll join us.
For more info Contact
Shawanna Collins pooh@fairysisters.org
Shakea Jerry mzkea@fairysisters.org
The star of stage and screen rambled a bit and faltered at times, confessing his discomfort with speaking live in front of thousands in Philly versus appearing on film before millions worldwide. But he soon won the hearts of his audience by making insider jokes as a UPenn parent and being bracingly candid about his own failings as a college student, and as a young actor feeling his way toward success.
Washington reflected on how he started out pre-med at Fordham University, but switched to pre-law and then journalism before, barely passing, he was “asked to take some time off” to consider his future. “I had a 1.8 GPA one semester,” he admitted to the Class of 2011. “I was 20 years old and at my lowest point.”
Washington also recalled on working in his mother’s Mt. Vernon beauty shop for a few months before returning to Fordham, where he finally claimed his calling to the theater and changed his major for the last time. He insisted that the great lessons of his winding academic road—to identify your particular gifts and to persevere in honing them no matter what—were never lost on him.
“I’m sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on,” Washington told the graduates. “I never understood that concept…I don’t want to fall back on anything except my faith. If I’m going to fall, I want to fall forward.”
Sharing a story about how Thomas Edison persevered through 1,000 failed inventions before nailing the light bulb, the Oscar and Tony award winner implored students to take risks and embrace failure, continually and without shame.
“You will fail,” he said. “Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. I should know. In the acting business, you fail all the time. If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. So you got to get out there and give it your all.”
Taking risks, he said, is about being open to life, to people, to foreign ideas and new frontiers. He insisted that while that might be frightening at first, “it will also be rewarding. Because the chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, and the faith that you have, that’s what’s going to define you.”
In the end, he charged the Class of 2011 with a universally inspiring mission: “Never be discouraged. Never hold back. Give it everything you’ve got. And when you fall, fall forward.” The crowd was on its feet before his final words were out of his mouth. A decade earlier, Washington received a standing ovation when he became only the second black male to win an Academy Award in the Best Actor category. I’m guessing this moment was just as meaningful.
Mommy Making Moves by LaChanel Hemphill 