The Encampment for Citizenship (EFC) is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian organization currently based in California that conducts a residential summer programs with year-round follow-up for young people of widely diverse backgrounds and nations.
The Encampment program brings youth together to form a self-governing community, learn to think critically about pressing social and political issues, and become empowered to take action.
Through this transformative experience, young people become more informed and sensitive about the key issues of our time and committed to active citizenship and involvement in their community as justice seekers.
[4] The founders created the Encampment summer program for "young adults of many religious, racial, social and national backgrounds"[5] to learn "the principles and techniques of citizenship in a liberal democracy through lived experience."
Eleanor Roosevelt, a long-time member of the society's board of directors, was an early supporter of the program and routinely hosted encampment workshops at her Hyde Park estate.