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Obama Fellowships Launches (and Other Training Opportunities)

The Obama Campaign just announced the launch of a summer training program, Obama Felowships. Considering the truly impressive field (and internet) operation the Obama campaign has put together this year, this is a unique opportunity to learn a really good ground game. If I was just finishing school (or still a student), I'd jump at the chance to be on the inside and learn from the campaign.


Introducing the Obama Organizing Fellows

This summer we are looking for people who want to be a part of a new generation of leadership that believes, like Senator Obama, that real change comes from the ground up.

Fellows will be trained on the basics of organizing & campaign fundamentals and then placed in a community to carry out grassroots activities. Fellows will be asked to commit to a minimum of 30 hours per week and will:

  • participate in training on field organizing, messaging, and other activities
  • organize in a community, working in conjunction with grassroots leaders and campaign staff
  • continue to build the movement

Applications are due at the latest by Monday, May 5th at midnight eastern time. We strongly encourage individuals to apply early. Applicants should expect to receive further communication in May. Program participation will start on June 5 and run through the end of the summer.

Note: this is an unpaid position.

Questions? Please email fellowship@barackobama.com.

If Hillary is your woman, or if you're looking to join the movement outside the bounds of the campaign, there are a number of other high-quality training opportunities this summer. A colleague at the Oregon Bus Project sent me a brief email to remind me of them:

"One of the most inspiring things about the Obama campaign is their desire to build for the future and their commitment to training young leaders in grassroots organizing. Organizations like the Bus Project's PolitiCorps Summer, Center for Progressive Leadership's New Leaders Fellowship, EMILY's List Campaign Corps, GreenCorps, and many others are also providing leadership training programs for young progressive leaders this summer. Some of these opportunities are paid, and all of them have deadlines rapidly approaching.

Here is a calendar of trainings for young progressive leaders in 2008."

For questions about the Bus Project's PolitiCorps Program, email emily.kintzer@busproject.org or call 503 233 3018

April 3rd, 2008 6:56pm
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Fellowships

[[Campus Progress]] maintains a comprehensive, regularly-updated list of fellowships in electoral politics and social justice activism. These fellowships span the following fields:

[[Young People For|The Young People For Fellowship]] is a year-long fellowship program for 150 freshmen, sophomores and juniors from colleges and universities around the country. The fellowship will help today’s rising progressive leaders accomplish their goals and make a difference on their campuses, in the community and across the nation. The fellowship begins with a free, all-expenses-paid summit in Washington, D.C., with networking, receptions, workshops and trainings on how to:

  • Develop progressive networks and coalitions
  • Learn effective messaging techniques
  • Use the media to get your message out
  • Improve your campus and community organizing skills

Following the January summit, Fellows will have the opportunity to organize with other Fellows on their campus and around the country—and receive funding and support to take effective action!

Fellows will also have the opportunity to:

  • Participate in an online progressive academy as a student and as a course facilitator
  • Participate in monthly conference calls with young elected officials and national progressive leaders
  • Receive support for internship and job placements
  • Network with a mentor throughout the year
  • Apply for our Front Line Leaders Academy
  • Participate in our Creative Resistance Media Club
  • Use ongoing access to People For the American Way Foundation’s reports, materials and on-campus trainings

[[http://youngpeoplefor.org/fellowship/apply/|Apply Here]]

[[http://www.scholarships-ar-us.org/our-scholarships/political-blogging.htm|Scholarships Around the US]] - Political Blogging Scholarship This group offers a $2000 scholarship to college students who maintain a political blog. Applicants must be US citizens attending college full-time and maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Applicants are required to submit a 300 word essay answering any of the following questions:

  • If you nominated a friend, what makes them and their blog so special?
  • How can blogging improve democracy?
  • Do bloggers enable and protect free speech?
  • What are the best ideas you have helped spread?
  • How do you intend to use blogging in the next election?

[[http://www.scholarships-ar-us.org/our-scholarships/political-blogging.htm|Apply Here]]

January 7th, 2007 8:26pm
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Training and Fellowships

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Training programs and fellowship opportunities to expand your field game.

Training Programs

Fellowships

January 7th, 2007 7:33pm
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