Established in 1989, the Northwest Leadership Foundation (NLF) aims to encourage, develop, and strengthen Tacoma’s leadership to create spiritual and social urban transformation. The faith-based nonprofit has a particular focus on youth and offers programs including youth mentorship and culturally relevant leadership development. To help ensure more Tacoma residents graduate from college and return home to serve as community leaders, NLF initiated and now coordinates Act Six, Tacoma’s only full-tuition urban leadership scholarship program. To expand the reach of Act Six, NLF launched Degrees of Change, which now operates as an independent nonprofit organization that works with communities and colleges across the country to create local leadership scholarship programs.