REAL Change Fellowship - opportunity for young adults (18-30)
Keithlee Spangler
The RESULTS REAL Change Organizing and Advocacy Fellowship is a hands-on volunteer advocacy training program for young people between the ages of 18–30. During the year-long program, fellows learn how to work with the media, their communities, and policymakers to create change. All fellows receive a crash course in advocacy at the RESULTS International Conference in Washington, DC on June 25–28. After three days of coaching and inspiration, fellows spend the last day of the conference on Capitol Hill and speak directly with members of Congress and their staff. Throughout the rest of the year, they receive ongoing training on biweekly calls and hone their advocacy skills by taking actions ranging from writing letters to the editor to hosting events to calling their members of Congress. This is a great chance for young advocates (or advocates-to-be) to have the costs of coming to DC and deepening their skills throughout the year almost totally covered as we build a new diverse grassroots movement to end poverty.
In particular, it would be great if you could forward to contacts in NC, GA, MS, LA, AL, WV, AR, OR, ID, or WI.
Interested applicants should complete the application form by April 30. For more information about the program, please visit www.results.org/realchange
Check out this profile of former REAL Change Fellow (and now member of RESULTS Experts on Poverty project) Tamara Bates for a dose of inspiration: http://www.results.org/blog/taking_a_chance_and_finding_results/, and this story (also below) from one of our current REAL Change Fellows to see what our young advocates are up to!