Act Six


Act Six Leadership and Scholarship Initiative

Act Six is an urban leadership and scholarship initiative of the Portland Leadership Foundation in partnership locally with George Fox University and Warner Pacific College. Regionally, we partner with eight colleges in Washington and Oregon to facilitate an innovative scholarship initiative that equips emerging urban leaders to engage the college campus and their communities at home.

The Program

Act Six uses a simple but powerful four-part strategy


Recruit and Select
Annually recruit and select diverse, multicultural cadres of Oregon’s most promising emerging urban leaders.

Train and Prepare
Intensively train these groups of students in the year prior to college, equipping them to support each other, succeed academically, and grow as service-minded leaders and agents of transformation.

Send and Fund
Send the teams together to select colleges across Oregon on full-tuition, full-need scholarships.

Support and Inspire
Provide strong campus support and ongoing leadership development to nurture these young people as they find their vocation and grow into the next generation of community leaders.

Act Six scholars are succeeding and thriving on campus and in their communities at home.
A remarkable 93% of scholars who began the program are still enrolled or graduated.
Even more, Act Six scholars are engaging and demonstrating leadership all across the campus and in their home communities.

Learn more about Act Six at www.actsix.org