Academy for Leadership and Action Summer Fellowship

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Academy for Leadership and Action Summer Fellowship
 
What is the Academy for Leadership and Action?
 
The Task Force’s Academy prepares leaders to fill the staff, board, and volunteer roles critical to the success of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement. Through community and political organizing, we strive to win immediate policy gains, develop leadership and long-term organizational capacity and build stronger alliances between secular and religious communities.
 
The Task Force is committed to building a social justice movement where everyone can be their full selves. We work with individuals and communities that reflect the full spectrum of LGBT people and their allies. We bring a racial and economic justice analysis to all of our movement building work and makes explicit the connections to struggles against systematic oppression. The Academy for Leadership and Action’s ultimate goal is to build movements, leaders and organizations that transform society.
 
What is the Academy Fellowship?
 
This is not your average fellowship!
 
This is your chance to create change! The Academy Fellowship is a subsidized social justice fellowship that’s furiously intense. The program provides the first hand real world experience working for social justice that is necessary for becoming a professional organizer. You’ll learn to disseminate a progressive worldview that connects LGBT issues to struggles against racism, classism, ableism, and spiritual oppression; to build relationships with a broad cross section of other LGBT movement leaders, especially incommunities of faith and communities of color; and to mobilize mass numbers of people to achieve immediate political gains for the LGBT community.
 
Stipend and Placement
 
Fellows receive a living expenses stipend of $500 per week. The Fellowship runs for 10 weeks, from Monday, June 10, 2013 through Friday, August 16, 2013. This year potential placement cities are New York City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon and Washington DC. Fellows are responsible for arranging their travel to the fellowship location and housing situation.
 
Applying
Applications must be submitted by Friday, April 19. Decisions will be made and communicated by Friday, May 17. Apply online here: http://www.kintera.org/AutoGen/Contact/ContactUs.asp?ievent=1061276&en=8hLOLXPvEcKJJTNHKdJHKXMBJjKSKTOCJeLKI1MJInKZL5NGJdKNK5PKJfJSJbPUE
 
APPLICATION DEADLINE
 
Application must be submitted by Friday April 19, 2013. Decisions will be made and communicated by Friday, May 17, 2013. The Fellowship runs from Monday, June 10, 2013 through Friday, August 16, 2013.
 
Any further questions can be directed to Senior Field Organizer, Bex Ahuja at 646.358.1475 or via email at [email protected]