Sabbaticals to Organizers of Color

Posted by on July 23, 2004

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Alston/Bannerman Fellowships Provide Sabbaticals to Organizers of Color
Deadline: December 1, 2004

The Alston/Bannerman Fellowships (<a href="http://alstonbannerman.org/">http://alstonbannerman.org/</a>) are annually awarded to ten organizers of color who have devoted their lives to helping their communities organize for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice.

Fellows receive $15,000 to take sabbaticals of three months or more for reflection and renewal. Fellows may use their sabbaticals in whatever way they think will best re-energize them for future work.

To qualify for a fellowship, applicants 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. While most fellows have been paid organizers, an applicant’s work can be as a volunteer organizer or leader, or involve a mix of paid and unpaid work.

Beyond the basic eligibility criteria, the program seeks applicants whose work attacks root causes of injustice by organizing those affected to take collective action; challenges the systems that perpetrate injustice and effects institutional change; builds their community’s capacity for self-determination and develops grassroots leadership; acknowledges the cultural values of the community; creates accountable participatory structures in which community members have decision-making power; and contributes to building a movement for social change by making connections between issues, developing alliances with other constituencies, and collaborating with other organizations.

For complete program information and application procedures, see the Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Web site.

RFP Link: <A HREF="http://bannermanfellowship.org/">http://bannermanfellowship.org/</A>

For additional RFPs in Civil and Human Rights, visit: <a href="http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_civil_rights.jhtml">http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_civil_rights.jhtml</a>