Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program

Posted by on June 24, 2005

[posted from PACDC Newsletter]

Alston/Bannerman Fellowship
Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program

The Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program is committed to advancing progressive social change by helping to sustain lng-time activists of color. The program is designed to give these activists the financial support and freedom to "take a break and recharge."

Each year, ten organizers of color working for social change on a broad range of issues are awarded the Alston/Bannerman Fellowship. Fellows receive $15,000 to take sabbaticals of three months or more. Previous fellows have worked on issues from environmental justice to fair wages, from immigrant rights to native sovereignty, from political empowerment to economic revitalization. Fellows have the freedom to use their sabbaticals however they think will best re-energize them for the work ahead.

To qualify for a Fellowship, an applicant must be a person of color; have more than ten years of community organizing experience; be committed to continuing to work for social change; and live in the United States or its territories. Both individuals for whom organizing is a full-time job and those for whom it is voluntary work done outside of their employment are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: December 1, 2005 (verify with Foundation)

Visit their website: <a href="http://www.alstonbannerman.org">http://www.alstonbannerman.org</a>