The Nonprofit Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program (NLP) creates and empowers a statewide network of talented and committed students who share an ambition to work for positive and sustainable change.  Each summer, the Phoenix Project seeks to prepare Virginia's next generation of highly effective social entrepreneurs to bridge the emerging and serious leadership gap in the Commonwealth's nonprofit sector, to expose leaders to the challenges of communities in distress, and to infuse those communities with able hands and minds to assist their revitalization efforts to the benefit of the entire Commonwealth.