The Sidney Lezak Project honors the life and legacy of Sidney Lezak through fellowships, mentoring, training, lectures, programs, debates and action dedicated to creating a more just and equitable society.
Welcome!
The Sidney Lezak Project is underway!
This past year we successfully launched a core program that would have delighted Sid. Our first Sidney Lezak Fellowship was awarded to George Zaninovich--a student in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program in Portland State University's College of Urban and Public Affairs. Working with the College's Social Equity and Opportunity Forum, George contributed to research that supports the Coalition for a Livable Future's Regional Equity Action Agenda. George was also part of the Bridges Planning Group that conducted and published a long-term resiliency plan and vision for the city of Vernonia, a former timber town that has survived two ‘500-year' floods in the last 11 years. Generous contributions made it possible for this first Sidney Lezak Fellow to further a career devoted to the social justice goals that were central to Sid's career and concerns, and are central to the goals of the Sidney Lezak Project.
The second academic year for the Sidney Lezak Project is coming up. With your help, we can fund a Sidney Lezak Fellowship for the full academic year plus as many as four half-year grants. Talented and socially invested candidates are now applying for these mentored research and training opportunities. They will become part of our cadre of young people who will have the knowledge and skills to promote social justice in its many aspects. If you wish to direct a contribution to the student mentoring program now, prior to the academic year, please indicate this on the enclosed form.
Of course the Sidney Lezak Project has other ongoing programs and activities, all directed toward the enhancement of social justice in our community. Unspecified contributions to the Project will fund this Fellowship/Student Mentoring Program as well as our several co-hosted community activities, our already inaugurated Lezak Lectures Series, and an institute for social justice now in the planning stages.
Please bring us--board members & executive director Linda Clingan--your questions, suggestions, and recommendations regarding the Sidney Lezak Project's programs and plans. We are grateful for your support.
Yours most sincerely,
Muriel D. Lezak and the Project Board
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Contact Us
200 SW Market St, Suite 1692
Portland, Oregon, 97201
503-227-8925
lezakproject@pdx.edu
