Send your completed application to ejccdirector@gmail.com by May 29th, 2007.
The Climate Justice Corps Fellowship Program
A subset of the Climate Justice Corps (CJC) Institute, the CJC Fellowship Program is a project of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). It is a campaign to provide leadership development for young activists, organizers, and researchers from disproportionately affected communities and to invigorate a new constituency for climate action. CJC Fellows comprise a group of young activists and researchers who are chosen by and housed at different EJCC member organizations and affiliates during the summer. Fellows come together at the beginning of their residency for an intensive training in organizing, communications, and the health and environmental dimensions of climate justice issues. They then spend the next ten weeks learning from and working with their host organizations. Due to the start date of the internship, if students must return to campus, we will work with you to either complete your final weeks in your school state or plug into programming on your campuses. Once in the field, Fellows will, depending on the needs of their host organizations, develop strategies for grassroots actions and media events, write issue and policy briefs on key local dimensions of climate and health problems, and support existing organizing. In the year after their placement, CJC Fellows are also required to organize one direct action centered on climate justice either on their college campus or within their community.
CJC Fellows receive a taxable stipend of $2500 (about $1000 per month), travel to and from their training and host site, and a materials stipend.
Eligibility and Qualifications
CJC Fellows must be between ages 18 to 28. Applicants under the age of 18 will be considered if: 1) they have graduated high school in the spring before their internship, 2) they will turn 18 during the summer of their internship, 3) they will work in their home community with an organization with which they have a previous relationship. Although it is not a requirement, strong applicants will have experience working in communities of color and in either organizing or relevant environmental or social justice-oriented academic research. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly orient themselves to the field of climate justice and be both strategic and creative in their approach to climate justice work. Because of the leadership component of this program, applicants will be expected to demonstrate strong potential for leadership on environmental justice and climate change issues in the future.
For more information about the EJCC, CJC Fellows, or Climate Justice,
please visit our website at www.ejcc.org
Send your completed application to ejccdirector@gmail.com by May 29th, 2007.
