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The Encampment for Citizenship • VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives • The "Vivia (Camille) Peeples Eden Scholarship”
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The Encampment for Citizenship
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1. The Encampment for Citizenship
The Encampment for Citizenship (EFC), founded in 1946, is a national non-profit organization that sponsors a multi-week program each summer for high school youth from diverse racial, ethnic, gender, religious, socioeconomic and geographic areas. The program seeks to encourage these youths to become active, well informed, committed leaders and justice seekers in their home communities and beyond. The schedule includes lecture and panel presentations, art, writing and performance modalities, workshops and discussion groups. Also central to the “camper’s” experience are field service placements in community organizations under the supervision of experienced professional staff, alums, guest speakers and other participants who exemplify active citizenship involvement. Of course, the most memorable lessons learned in the Encampment are those from living among those unlike oneself. The EFC is non-partisan and has about 7,000 living alums, several scores from across Virginia, including some dozen from the Richmond area. Past distinguished alums include William Haddad (John Kennedy White House staff), US Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, former US Congressman Barney Frank, Peter Neufeld (Innocence Project co-founder) and Ada Deer (Bill Clinton’s Undersecretary for Indian Affairs, Dept. of Interior). Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr Ralph Bunche, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Kenneth Clark and President John Kennedy are among the many past visiting participants or supporters. To learn more about the Encampment, visit: http://encampmentforcitizenship.org/; Encampment Facebook group; and the official repository for its historical papers, artifacts and photographs located in the Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond at: http://encampmentforcitizenship.org/archives/index.php ............................................... Donation Information ............................................... Checks can be made out to "Encampment for Citizenship" and mailed to: Encampment for Citizenship PO Box 1210 Aptos, CA 95001-1210 Email: [email protected] For other donation methods see: http://encampmentforcitizenship.org/support-us/index.php The future of our country will soon be in the hands of today’s youth. By making a gift to the Encampment in honor of a friend, colleague, or loved one, you are directly supporting the next generation of engaged and thoughtful leaders committed to creating a more just world |
If you care to make a gift in support of Ed, you are invited to donate to any of the following three organizations which he has passionately supported for the greater part of his life. All of these projects are recognized by the IRS as tax deductible. |
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries Special Collections and Archives
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The Vivia (Camille) Peeples Eden Scholarship
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3. The "Vivia (Camille) Peeples Eden Scholarship"
The "Vivia (Camille) Peeples Eden Scholarship” at the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie campus in Allendale, SC. This is a regional division of the University of South Carolina dedicated to uplifting young people in five of the most impoverished rural counties in the nation – three of which were the home of the Peeples family for five generations. The scholarship, named for Ed's paternal aunt, was begun with the small inheritance she left to Ed and his brother, Steve, when she died. She was a lifelong dedicated public school teacher in the region. The aim of this scholarship is to assist low income African Americans and others in the region to obtain a college education and a better life in South Carolina Low Country. ............................................... Donation Information ............................................... Donations by check can be written to the "USC Educational Foundation" with "The Vivia Peeples Eden Scholarship Fund, #1B1727" on the memo line and then sent to: Dr. Ann C. Carmichael, Dean, University of South Carolina Salkehatchie PO Box 617 Allendale, SC 29810 Phone: (803) 584-3446 Email: [email protected] For other donation methods go to the “How to Give” tab at: https://giving.sc.edu/ |
