Creating opportunities to explore community change careers
Learn MoreCommunity Learning Partnership (CLP) is a national non-profit organization focused on building a workforce of credentialed, knowledgeable community organizers and skilled leaders who can create positive change in their local communities .
CLP’s statewide initiative, California Youth Leadership Corps (CYLC), focuses on expanding community change learn-and-earn career pathways leading to careers in nonprofits, government, and other sectors.
California Youth Leadership Corps, a statewide initiative of the Community Learning Partnership, equips community college students with the knowledge, skills, and academic credentials needed to become community organizers and skilled leaders in local communities across California.
CLP programs are partnerships between community colleges/public four-year universities and community organizations that offer academic educational credentials and work-based learning experience. Over 1,000 current students and graduates across the country have developed their community organizing and leadership skills and entered the workforce with tangible experience.
Through CLP-CYLC programs you can acquire a postsecondary credential, a certificate, or community-based training, paid work-based learning, and more to work with others in creating systemic change in local communities.
CLP students and alums show that another world is possible. Over 1,000 current CLP students and graduates in communities across the country are contributing their vision for a new world and their leadership skills to create communities that are just, equitable, and humane.
Attending the Global Forum 2022 on Higher Education Leadership For Democracy, Sustainability, and Social Justice was a very empowering experience and has sparked a motivation in me to keep the push against the barriers of oppression. Seeing that there were so many people all around the world working for the betterment of our education systems was grounding. I felt a connection to a more extensive community with people in places I’ve never been to.
Whether you are a young person interested in improving your community, a college, community organization, or funder committed to creating change in our communities, we would love to hear from you!