Fellowship Announcement

[Angela Harvey]

Alston Bannerman Fellowship Program Offers Sabbaticals for Long-Time
Activists of Color

Part of the Center for Social Inclusion <http://
www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/> , the Alston Bannerman Fellowship
Program supports long-time activists of color by giving them the
resources to take time out for reflection and renewal.

Fellows receive a $25,000 award to take sabbaticals of three months or
more.

To be eligible, an applicant must be a person of color, have more than
ten years of community organizing experience, be committed to
continuing social change work in communities of color, and live in the
United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or U.S. Virgin
Islands. Both paid and unpaid leaders are eligible to apply.

Beyond the basic eligibility criteria, the program seeks applicants
whose work attacks root causes of inequity by organizing those
affected to take strategic collective action, challenges the systems
that perpetrate injustice and effect institutional and structural
change, builds community capacity for democratic participation and
develops grassroots leadership, acknowledges the cultural values of
the community, creates accountable participatory structures in which
community members have decision-making power, and contributes to
building a movement for social change by making connections between
issues, developing alliances with other constituencies, and
collaborating with other organizations. Visit the Alston Bannerman
Fellowship Web site for complete program information.