About our goals:

For 2025 we are working on creating videos, resources, and discussions with professors from across the States with our Student Advisory Board that we will post on our website and social media accounts. We aim to offer online programming for high school students around the world, and then an in-person program in the summer. Our total budget for the online 2025 cycle is $6,209, and the total budget for an in-person summer cycle is $500,000. We can only grow with your support as we work to find additional funding through grants and sponsorships.

Our Story:

Students for Civic Impact was established in 2024 by the former staff and alumni of the Junior State of America (JSA). After an astonishing 90 years of summer and school-based programs for civics education and youth leadership development, JSA closed in August 2024. Realizing there was no program like the one they envisioned and had seen make such a difference in the lives of thousands of students, they knew they had to set up a new non-profit to serve future students. When the announcement became public, faculty, students, and alumni organized to create a new summer program inspired by and modeled on the JSA summer schools and programs in which they participated and led.

Students for Civic Impact is taking the best of JSA and re-imagining the summer program to fit the needs and desires of Generations Z and A and those to come. The Civic Impact Summer Program will have politics and communications courses, student-led dialogues and debates, workshops, simulations, guest speakers, tourism, and special events.

The Civic Impact Summer Program will be a unique, pre-collegiate, life-changing, and socially & culturally enriching residential experience for high school students entering 10th through 12th grade (15-17 years old).

Students for Civic Impact Incorporated is a registered nonprofit and charity in the State of Ohio and a U.S. recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity.

All gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

EIN 99-4860858

Students for Civic Impact

Support High School Students Learning Communication Skills and Political Awareness for Life

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