The Cabral Leadership & Innovation Center (CLIC) works to prepare and train young adults in the skills needed to succeed civically and economically.

Mission

The Cabral Leadership & Innovation Center (CLIC) works to prepare and train young adults in the skills needed to succeed civically and economically.

Vision

A community of global leaders who compete and contribute to cultural, social, and economic development through entrepreneurship and innovation.

Slogan

Lead like Cabral, Innovate to Transform.

Values

  • Service – Always be of service or help people.

  • Innovation- Create the future you want to see.

  • Accountability – Speak to be truthful & honor your failures.

  • Collaboration – Always reach your hands towards new beginnings

  • Responsibility – Honor your commitments to self & community.

  • Success – Be selfish with your goals but plant trees that bear fruit for all.

  • Persistency – Rise like the sun every day to your goals.

  • Perseverance – No matter the road, find your way.

  • Reliability – Trust not but commit to your words to others.

  • Self-Awareness – Be a friend to who you truly are and love who you become.

    Our Goals and Objectives:
    • Prepare youth for college
    • Utilize job experience to build relevant and transferrable skills for youth
    • Build a sense of unity among youth
    • Develop youth leadership
    • Prepare youth for economic self-sufficiency
    • Promote healthy life choices
    • Increase employability of participants
    • Keep teens out of gangs and away from gang activity
    • Keep teens safe from street violence
    • Promote academic achievement
    We Offer:
    • Test preparation classes
    • Job skills training
    • Peer mentoring
    • Assistance with college application process
    • Assistance with transition to high school
    • Preemptive acculturation to college
    • Civic leadership/engagement 
    • Entrepreneurship

    Why Cabral?

    ABOUT

    Amilcar Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean who led the nationalist movement towards independence. He was the founder of the Portuguese for African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). He was assassinated just 8 months before Guinea-Bissau’s declaration of independence and has become an inspiration to independence movements worldwide.

    “Tell no lies…
    Claim no easy victories.”

    - Amilcar Cabral, 1965