Support ALOUD - Associated Leaders of Urban Debate

Support ALOUD

SUPPORT DEBATE NATIONWIDE: THE ASSOCIATED LEADERS OF URBAN DEBATE

The Associated Leaders of Urban Debate (ALOUD) develops great debaters coast-to-coast by customizing programs based on a school district's or university's strategic plan, building local networks of supporters and engaging community-based organizations to meet the needs of today's young people and the pedagogical objectives of their teachers.

From Seattle to Miami, debate communities emerged with over 25,000 children benefiting from ALOUD partner programs. ALOUD works with partner programs in over 500 schools, community-based organizations and prisons. The number of children served has doubled over the past five years, while reducing the cost to serve each child. When ALOUD's network of partners expanded to youth expression programs, those number grew to a quarter of a million young people.

With your help, half a million students from the country's most challenged neighborhoods will articulate ideas, push their intellectual limits through competition, become more engaged in the everyday joy of learning, transform the quality of their schools and discover an unimagined sense of personal power through their voice and their mind. They will demand more of themselves, their teachers, their political leaders and their community as they take control of their educational outcomes in new and exciting ways.