New Faces in Leadership
For the Campus. For the City. For the Future.

The Act Six Leadership and Scholarship Initiative is Washington State's only full-tuition, full-need scholarship for emerging urban and community leaders who want to use their college education to make a difference on campus and in their communities at home.

Important News

• Online Application Now Available, Due October 30
  The Fall 2010 Act Six application is now available and must be completed online.  Begin your online application now and use the summer to get a jump start on the October 30, 2010 deadline.

New for 2010

• Act Six Comes to Yakima Valley, Partners with Heritage University
  With the opening of Northwest Leadership Foundation Yakima, students from across the Yakima Valley can now apply for Act Six at Heritage University.  Located in Toppenish, Heritage will build on its long investment in local leadership as it selects its first Act Six cadre.

• Tacoma-Seattle Opportunities
  For fall 2010 Act Six will offer approximately 25 scholarships to Pacific Lutheran University, Northwest University, Gonzaga University, and Trinity Lutheran College for emerging urban leaders in the Tacoma-Seattle region.

• Spokane Opportunities
  Act Six will offer approximately 14 scholarships this year to Whitworth University and Gonzaga University for emerging urban leaders in greater Spokane.

• What does it mean to be an Act Six scholar?
  Check out the video below to find out.

Additional News

• Act Six Celebrates Cadre Four Graduates
  On May 16, the fourth cadre of Tacoma Act Six scholars graduated from Whitworth University with records of distinguished leadership, service and academic achievement. By December 2010, 35 scholars in the first four cadres will have earned their bachelor's degree. Meet this year's graduates and learn more about their impact on the Whitworth campus and dreams for their community and their future by clicking on their names below (pictured left to right):

  

  Emmanuel Bofa, B.A. Speech Communication
  Emerald Ridge High School

  Marco Garcia, B.A. Spanish and Cross-Cultural Studies
  Clover Park High School

  Danjuma Quarless, B.A. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Mathematics
  Bellarmine Preparatory High School

  Jaquette Easterlin, B.A. Sociology
  Wilson High School

  Marcus Nobles, B.A. Marketing
  Wilson High School

  Elly Bulega, B.S. Engineering Physics
  Bellarmine Preparatory School

• Act Six Cadre One Graduates showcased in Tacoma's The News Tribune
  A front page article appeared in the July 10, 2007 newspaper highlighting the graduation of the first Act Six scholars.
• Act Six Featured in Whitworth Today
  Whitworth's alumni magazine, Whitworth Today, featured Act Six in the spring 2007 edition. Read the full story in the magazine's online version.