[Save] FW: Green Corps Fellowship Opportunity

[Amanda Graham]

**WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS**

**PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES**

 

Note the rapidly approaching deadline for this opportunity for graduating
seniors - FEBRUARY 20.

 

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Amanda C. Graham, Ph.D.

Education Program Manager

Laboratory For Energy and the Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building E40, Room 479; 1 Amherst Street

Cambridge, MA  02139-4307  USA

phone:  1.617.253.8995

fax:  1.617.253.8013

 <http://lfee.mit.edu/education> http://lfee.mit.edu/education

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Liz Gimson [mailto:liz at greencorps.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:20 AM
To: agraham at MIT.EDU
Subject: Green Corps Fellowship Opportunity 

 

regarding Green Corps, a great fellowship opportunity for graduating seniors
that are interested in pursuing careers in the environmental and social
change fields:  

 

Each year, Green Corps, the Field School for Environmental Organizing,
offers one-year paid fellowships to recent college graduates, providing them
with the hands-on training and experience they'll need to launch their
social change organizing and advocacy careers.  Fellows in the program spend
a year participating in a rigorous classroom training program and
coordinating field campaigns with national environmental groups.  At the end
of the year, Green Corps fellows can go on to start their own non-profit
groups or run the field operations of leading state, local or national
groups.  In the past ten years, Green Corps has trained over 170 young
people who have held leadership positions in environmental and social change
groups like Sierra Club, Greenpeace, ACORN, Rainforest Action Network, and
Natural Resources Defense Council.  

 

more information about our program below.  

 

Thank you,

 

Liz Gimson

Green Corps

29 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111

617-426-8506 (p), 617-292-8057 (f)

liz at greencorps.org

www.greencorps.org

 

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Green Corps:  Training the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders

 

Job Description for 2004-2005 Environmental Leadership Training Program

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We're looking for the next generation of environmental leaders.

 

Can you imagine yourself running a campaign to defend old growth forests
from corporate logging companies, protecting local communities from
pesticides, or starting your own environmental group? Green Corps' one-year,
full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives you the best
training available to launch an organizing and advocacy career.

 

Organization. Green Corps is a non-profit Field School for Environmental
Organizing, founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to identify and
train the next generation of environmental leaders. Our program includes
intensive classroom training, hands-on experience running urgent
environmental and public health campaigns, and placement in permanent
leadership positions with leading environmental groups.

 

Training. The Introductory Classroom Training, held in Boston, MA, exposes
you to the environmental movement and teaches you to mobilize grassroots
support, train community leaders, and work with the media. You will learn
about issues you care about including global warming, corporate
accountability, toxic threats, and sustainable development. You will learn
from environmental leaders who have real-life experience fighting to protect
our environment like Bob Bingaman, National Field Director of Sierra Club,
and Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of United Farm Workers. Four subsequent
week-long classroom training sessions held throughout the year teach you
additional skills and hone your ability to plan and implement effective
campaigns.

 

Locations & Dates: We place Field Organizers in cities across the nation,
which may include Washington, D.C., and cities in California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New
Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. The
program begins in August 2004, with the Introductory Classroom Training in
Boston, and concludes with graduation in August 2005.

 

Responsibilities. As a Green Corps Field Organizer, you'll plan and

implement a series of environmental campaigns conducted on behalf of groups
like Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and World Wildlife Fund. Your
responsibilities will include recruiting, training, and supervising
volunteers, interns, and staff; working with the media; fundraising; and
mobilizing grassroots support.

 

Job Placement. Our graduates are in high demand and quickly find jobs

working on issues they care about. After you complete the training program,
Green Corps will connect you to organizations with open positions and other
opportunities for full-time social change work. Green Corps' graduates have
held positions of leadership in organizations such as the Sierra Club,
Greenpeace, Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, U.S. PIRG, Natural
Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense, ACLU, United for a Fair
Economy, and Friends of the Earth.

 

Qualifications. We will invite 25 people to participate in the 2004-2005
Environmental Leadership Training Program. We are looking for people who are
serious about saving the planet, have experience working with environmental
or social change issues, and have demonstrated leadership experience.

 

Salary & Benefits. Salary of $19,500, health care coverage, paid sick days
and holidays, two weeks paid vacation, and a student loan repayment program.

 

To Apply.  We encourage you to apply on-line at our website,

www.greencorps.org.  Deadlines vary by location beginning in January 2004
and concluding March 1, 2004.  For a complete description of our application
process and campus recruitment dates, please see our website, or contact Liz
Gimson at 617.747.4406 or at liz at greencorps.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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