Democracy & Humanity Stipended Fellowships
Fall 2024 Fellowship:
Winter/Spring 2025 Fellowship: January 6 - June 2, 2025 (dates negotiable)
Time Commitment:
Location:
Stipend:
How to apply:
Deadline:
Summary:
Action Corps, a grassroots humanitarian education and advocacy organization, seeks fellows interested in learning about the following areas of work:
Action Corps leads multi-organizational campaigns for global relief and Middle East peace, and is developing a campaign for a strong multiracial democracy.
Anticipated Benefits to Fellow:
Summary of Responsibilities:
Core Functions (Required):
Campaign-Specific Functions (You will be assigned to one of these tracks – You can indicate your preference.):
Desired Experience and Attributes:
Equal Opportunity Policy: Action Corps seeks to create a diverse team. We encourage people from all ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, generational, and religious backgrounds to apply.
Fall 2024 Fellowship:
- September 4 - December 18, 2024 (dates negotiable)
- Includes 5 full days in Washington, DC (September 12-16, 2024)
Winter/Spring 2025 Fellowship: January 6 - June 2, 2025 (dates negotiable)
Time Commitment:
- Sunday evenings (3 hours) + Mon-Thurs 7 hours/day (hours negotiable)
Location:
- Remote in the U.S.
Stipend:
- $1,000 per month, contingent on satisfactory participation.
How to apply:
- Send a resume and cover letter to [email protected].
- Optional: Attach a writing sample.
Deadline:
- Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
Summary:
Action Corps, a grassroots humanitarian education and advocacy organization, seeks fellows interested in learning about the following areas of work:
- Fundraising
- Volunteer recruitment
- Training logistics
- Middle East peace campaign
- Advocacy for global economic justice
- General operations
Action Corps leads multi-organizational campaigns for global relief and Middle East peace, and is developing a campaign for a strong multiracial democracy.
Anticipated Benefits to Fellow:
- Academic credit from participating schools
- Mentoring by the organization’s director and coordinator
- Opportunities to connect with activists across the U.S. and staff at humanitarian and policy advocacy organizations such as the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Demand Progress
- Opportunities to write for a public audience and feedback on the writing
- Stipend to assist with living expenses
Summary of Responsibilities:
Core Functions (Required):
- Fundraising: Support our grants and donor program with research and outreach. Build/maintain a list of potential funders, contacting them with requests, updates, and appreciation. Learn about logistics and administrative work for fundraising campaigns, including event support.
- Volunteer Recruitment: Learn how to recruit and support more organizers and advocates across the U.S., by posting information online and connecting with institutional leaders.
- Training Logistics: Research lodging, transportation, food, venues, congressional offices; conduct outreach, and help with logistics for a training in Washington, DC. You will need to be in DC September 12-16. Participate in the training, with low-budget accommodations (shared hotel room). Action Corps will cover travel expenses.
- Team Building and Communication: Participate in daily 1:1 and/or small group calls with Action Corps staff and volunteers, weekly national organizer video calls (Sunday evenings 8:30-9:30pm Eastern Time), and engage in online community activities with Action Corps organizers, ambassadors, and allies.
- Additional Opportunities: May include note taking, scheduling, calling allied organizations, drafting emails, research, and other activities.
Campaign-Specific Functions (You will be assigned to one of these tracks – You can indicate your preference.):
- Fight Voter Suppression: Provide research and writing to leverage Action Corps’ email lists partner organizations for geographic-specific voting information. Engage partner organizations with expertise on voter mobilization. Prepare materials and presentations for the September organizer training, and support organizers help Black voters in the South get the information they need to vote.
- Middle East Peace Campaign: Work closely with the Action Corps’ leadership and local organizers to implement Middle East peace campaign strategies. Represent Action Corps on coalition calls, prepare summaries and action items, research and write policy memos, draft action alerts, set up meetings with members of Congress, reach out to organizations and individuals about speaking opportunities, prepare action kits, and support educational and grassroots efforts to stop U.S. participation in Middle East wars.
- Global Climate and Economic Justice Campaign for a New Issuance of Special Drawing Rights: Participate in weekly coalition strategy meetings, set up meetings with Senate offices, draft social media posts and letters to the editor, and help the coalition secure a new issuance of financial resources by the International Monetary Fund without conditions or additions to countries’ debts.
Desired Experience and Attributes:
- Strong interest in campaigning or community organizing, humanitarianism, and/or global justice
- Self starter with resourcefulness and initiative
- Strong goal setting and follow-through skills
- Willing to ask for commitments to action, including cold calling and follow-ups
- Collaborative spirit with strong communication skills
- Ability to work in a bipartisan fashion, with diverse groups and in a small-staff, tight-budget, start-up environment
- Self-care practices, including clear communication of needs
Equal Opportunity Policy: Action Corps seeks to create a diverse team. We encourage people from all ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, generational, and religious backgrounds to apply.
