ACTUALIZE is a seven-week program that moves students through three phases: Awareness, Agency, and Action. Each phase builds toward a completed Community Intervention with documented impact.
Every chapter cohort follows the same framework.
Students confront the beliefs that limit their sense of impact — ideas like "I'm just a student," "this isn't my place," or "someone more qualified should handle this." Leadership begins when those assumptions are questioned.
Students align their strengths and interests with a specific community problem and formally claim responsibility for improving it. This is the shift from caring to owning.
Students design and complete a Community Intervention — a short-term, student-led action that produces a documented before-and-after improvement.
Every ACTUALIZE participant completes one Community Intervention within seven weeks. A Community Intervention is not an idea or a plan. It is a finished, documented action with visible impact.
All interventions must:
Interventions may differ in form, but all must meet the same standard: documented, observable change.
ACTUALIZE does not measure leadership by intention, effort, or enthusiasm. It measures leadership by documented change.
Each participant submits an Impact Receipt that includes:
Improvement may be psychological, social, physical, infrastructural, or access-based — but it must be real, observable, and defensible.
A student completes ACTUALIZE only if they:
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