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...have planned summer projects will be interviewed individually. They will then present their projects to the board members and to each other as a group, to give all students submitting applications the benefit of the entire group's suggestions. Board members must evaluate the suitability of each project for E4A funding and the likelihood that the project will help both the applicant and the people with whom the applicant plans to work...
...PHILOSOPHY behind E4A funding is central to the direction of the organization as a whole. In earlier years, E4A-and most social activists-thought the most constructive short-term experience would be a kind of "internship," working for social action agencies which couldn't otherwise provide students with salaries. The concept of a viable social project now centers on three criteria: the project's potential for advancing positive social change, its potential for enhancing the personal growth of the people undertaking projects, and the development of original student-initiated projects whose means seem well-designed for attaining the desired ends...
...E4A projects thus no longer fall under the heading "social service." Rather than enrolling volunteers in already established structures whose relationship to the people they serve is unlikely to change through the person's involvement, E4A wants to help students to create new relationships among social activists and between activists and the disenfranchised sectors of society. Rather than trying to teach students about how things already work, E4A seeks people whose activities will educate themselves and the people they work with to the kinds of skills and relationships necessary to effect social change...
...political side of E4A's activities lies in its conception of education-the orientation of the individual and the direction of the person's growth towards greater involvement in the community in which the person lives. In this sense, E4A has goals which may be called political: the creation of cooperative relationships among social activists and community people; help for groups trying to overcome the difficulties in using resources controlled by hierarchical bureaucracies; enabling students to create fulfilling work roles in society; helping students to overcome the sense of fragmentation in their social interests and academic lives; and providing...
Generalizing further about the political inclinations of E4A is impossible because the attitudes of board members and the kinds of projects funded cover such a wide range of interests and expectations. Projects have focused on problems of public and mental health, drug abuse, prison education, economic and cultural development, civil rights, tenants' disputes, women's issues, and community education...