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GREEN CORPS
FELLOWSHIPS
Each year, Green
Corps 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. Our recent campaigns have included
working to
protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with the Alaska Wilderness
League, educating
the public about global warming with the World Wildlife Fund, and
protecting commu-
nities from toxics with the Toxics Action Center.
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.
Thank you,
Liz Gimson
University of Chicago, Class of 2002
Development
Coordinator
Green Corps
29 Temple Place,
Boston, MA 02111
617-426-8506 (p),
617-292-8057 (f)
liz@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 Jenna
Perry at 617.426.8506 or at jobs@greencorps.org.
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