Internships & Fellowships
Echoing Green Fellowship
Fellowship program for “social entrepreneurs” in various social benefit areas. Fellows receive $60,000 plus benefits, technical assistance, and access to a network of social change makers over a period of two years. Fellows must work full-time on developing a new organization (less than two years old) during this period. Initial applications due in early January annually.
The Environmental Leadership Program
Provides Fellowships to attend group trainings and receive modest financial support over a 2-year period to a diverse range of environmental professionals with 3-10 years of work/campaign experience. Applications due October 1 annually.
National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Fellowship Program
NWF Campus Ecology Fellows will be required to confront global warming on campus by working with the administration to commit to a 30% reduction by 2020 and developing a climate action plan with the support of their advisor and verifier. In addition to joining the national network of current and alumni NWF Campus Ecology Fellows, students also receive a modest grant, project support, recognition of their accomplishments and other perks. Application deadlines are each January.
Greenpeace Organizing Term
The Greenpeace Organizing Term operates in Washington, DC and San Francisco for spring, summer, and fall semesters annually. It’s a semester of advanced training for student activists, incorporating travel internationally and domestically to assist with Greenpeace field campaigns on forest protection, global warming, and other key issues.
Green Corps
Green Corps calls themselves “The Field School for Environmental Organizing.” Green Corps has developed a year-long campaign-based training program that consistently gives their graduates excellent skills in grassroots organizing and places them in jobs with top organizations. Pay for the year is modest, but training is top-flight and camaraderie is excellent as you work on organizing on several environmental campaigns for other organizations. Green Corps recruits on college campuses and most applicants are recent college grads. Rolling applications until March.
Switzer Environmental Fellowships
The Switzer Foundation (endowed by the inventors of Day Glo Paint!) provides twenty $15,000 cash awards to grad students in California and New England whose studies are directed toward improving the quality of our natural environment. Fellows are matched with a mentor and are eligible to receive funding to work at the non-profit of their choosing. Application deadline in February.
SSC’s Student Environmental Leadership Training Programs
Each summer, the Sierra Student Coalition offers nearly ten annual Student Environmental Leadership Training Programs. Each weeklong training session – set in pristine parks - is led by some of the nation’s top student organizers. The week long training programs are set in pristine parks and teach the skills that you need to lead youth and students to confront the challenge of our generation. This summer we will host a record eight programs across the country.
Young People 4’s Fellowship
Young People 4 year-long Fellowships begin with an all expense paid trip to a National Summit for Progressive Leaders in January where fellows learn from other progressive leaders, attend skill building workshops, and begin to refine strategies and tactics for running progressive campaigns in their home communities. YP4 provides advice, training, and an online community for continued support, and focuses on environmental and social justice issues.
The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy has launched DMI Scholars to identify progressive college students from diverse communities and train them in the skills necessary to obtain and succeed in entry-level public policy positions. Scholars will learn to approach problems through a policy lens and meet professionals doing this work for government, think tanks, campaigns and advocacy organizations. DMI Scholars are college sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated commitment to advocating for fairness and equity, strong communication skills. Deadline in January annually.
Rockwood Leadership Program
Rockwood’s Art of Leadership program is a four day intensive for social change leaders on developing skills in communication, self-awareness, presentation, emotional intelligence, team-building and personal mastery. Scholarships are available.
Ashoka Fellowship
Ashoka identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs – practical visionaries with the same creativity and determination as leading business entrepreneurs – who apply these qualities to solving social problems on a large scale. Extensive, competitive application process around the world.
DART
The Organizers Institute seeks to train youth in community organizing, eventually placing them in salaried positions in grassroots, congregation-based community organizations around the country.
The Posse Foundation
The Posse Foundation selects student leaders from New York City, Boston, Chicago, D.C., Los Angeles, and Atlanta public high schools to form multicultural teams called “Posses”. These teams are then prepared, through an intensive eight-month Posse Training Program, for enrollment at top universities to pursue their academics and to help promote cross-cultural communication on campus.
Youth Venture
Youth Venture empowers young people (ages 12-20) to create and launch their own enterprises, and through these enterprises, to take greater responsibility for their lives and communities.” These “Ventures” include small businesses, environmental clubs and organizations, and various community service projects. Benefits to Venturers include training in how to start your venture (budgeting, etc.), technical support, seed grants up to $1000, media opportunities, and access to an on-line community of fellow social entrepreneurs. Youth Venture is an outgrowth of Ashoka www.ashoka.org , a fellowship that supports more established social entrepreneurs all over the world. Deadline in February.
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