TRAINING
As a Fellow, you'll identify challenges affecting your community, then develop an advocacy campaign to make measurable progress on that issue. We know that you likely want to make big change in your communities—and by developing an advocacy campaign, you are developing a long-term approach. Ultimately, we are in this for the long haul: to create a more accessible and participatory democracy at all levels of government.
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The Community Engagement Fellowship is built to help new leaders develop their skills while providing a meaningful experience for people looking to address the root challenges facing their community. Fellows come from varied backgrounds and skill levels, but the fellowship serves as an entry point for those looking to take action and make a difference. This fellowship will provide the tools and training to make real progress and to ensure that voices as diverse as our communities have a place in this movement.
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Our Community Engagement Teams are currently working on a variety of issues. You can participate in these actions as a volunteer, community resident or by participating as an organizer. We select issues based on the interest of the residents of the communities we serve.
If you would like to become a community organizer, we suggest you register for the Leadership Training program. We also have connections with other leadership and Fellows Leader programs that can teach or enhance leadership skills.
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National Issues
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-Gun Violence
-Net Neutrality
-Systematic Racism
-Voter Registration
State Issues
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-Gun Violence
-Systematic Racism
-Voter Registration
Local Issues
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-Gentrification
-Gun Violence
-Restorative Justice
-Systematic Racism
-Voter Registration
-Waging War Against Food Deserts
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Fellows Leaders and BLACK Team Leaders provide guidance on the issues to consider when planning and designing community engagement. We make sure it focuses on quality and effectiveness, process planning and designing engagement tailored to the particular issue, level of participation to be achieved, timeframe and range of stakeholders affected.
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Community engagement works best where it is an ongoing cumulative process enabling relationships and trust to build and strengthen over time. Individual engagement events are planned and designed with this in mind and aim to contribute to the overall aims of the engagement process. Community or voluntary groups participate at a range of levels – from providing advice to co-designing the process and from undertaking some aspects of the engagement to delivering projects to meet some of the outcomes.
