For 7 years, the Summer Youth Institute has been producing leaders from Mississippi high schools.

The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation has anchored its work at the University of Mississippi for 17 years.

Twenty-eight rising high school sophomores and juniors are selected each year to attend the William Winter Institute's Summer Youth Institute on the Oxford campus each June. Each SYIer designs a project that combines a need of their community with a personal passion, and signs an agreement to build the project for two years.

Gov. Winter is 93 years old, and still working for Mississippi every day!

Launches a project in a Mississippi community that combines a passion of a Summer Youth Institute student with a need of their community.

Sponsors a workshop to teach community members the many ways our world benefits from difference, and how to address discrimination effectively.

Regional summits help grow youth community support networks around the state, and allow teachers to share how to effectively include Civil Rights and Human Rights history into their lessons.

Preserve a community's past, and those who shaped it, via an oral history project.

Vital support for a Winter Institute-sponsored (free!) conference, such as "Mass Incarceration in Mississippi."