Community Learning Partnership Programs

Creating pathways offering certificates and degrees in community leadership, development and organizing along with community work experience. Community Learning Partnership Programs

About Our Programs

Building Pathways Into Community Change Careers

CLP’s Programs are partnerships between community colleges, public four-year colleges and universities, community leaders, and nonprofit organizations that offer unique academic credentials. These academic credentials include certificates and degrees in community leadership, organizing, public and community health, community planning and economic development, clean energy planning and development, and community change career pathways that provide critical services to low-income immigrants.

Along with academic credentials, students gain work-based learning experiences and mentoring that helps them navigate educational and career pathways toward becoming a community change agent.

Our programs prepare students to become leaders and community organizers who can effect transformative change with and for their local communities. Our programs empower students to become agents of change in their local communities by providing them with educational opportunities, paid work-based learning opportunities, critical supports, mentoring, and leadership development opportunities. CLP’s growing national network currently includes programs in seven states: California, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, and Utah.

Our Growing Community Learning Program Network

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Expanding Community Change Learn-and-Earn Career Pathways Across California

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 young leaders of social justice organizations and nonprofits in local communities across California.

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In Their Own Words

  • I learned about how government funds are used in developing neighborhoods, what a community development corporation is, and the different type of development that can result. We visited the Native American Corridor, a stretch of several blocks in downtown Minneapolis that has been intentionally developed with native-owned business. We talked about theories and concepts, but also applied those concepts on the ground…. I love my community here, I want to do this work full time here, and keep learning how to uplift my own community.

  • The program helped me understand the oppression I faced from day one – as an immigrant, an English Language Learner, and a person of color. It helped me understand what oppression looks like and how it shaped my view of myself, my place in the world, and the decisions I made. Now that I can dissect this, I can create and rebuild myself the way I want.

  • This program was fundamental to my growth as an engaged and informed citizen. Every class I took provided an integral opportunity to learn and reflect. And each piece has affected how I interact with my world today. I am forever grateful to CLP, the teachers and directors. I learned how to organize for change and where to put my energy. I became a leader in my neighborhood organization, developing new programs and initiatives to engage our community and give them a voice.

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Whether you are a young person interested in community issues, a college, community organization, or funder committed to community change, we would love to hear from you!