Carl Wilkens Fellowship for Genocide Intervention Network

Application due November 1, 2009

INFORMATION

The Fellowship offers a variety of trainings - in grassroots organizing skills (volunteer recruitment and retention, messaging with the media, social media technologies), as well as in the history/politics/current advocacy agendas for our areas of concern (Sudan, Burma, Congo). These trainings are organized on a monthly basis and mostly via conference call, although we are hoping to use webinar technology more in the future. In addition to these monthly trainings, Fellows meet twice/year in Washington, DC. These retreats seek to draw best practices for grass roots organizing (community networking) and lobbying from the Fellows' own experiences.

There is minimal compensation for the Fellowship, as it is a part time commitment for each individual. 2010 Fellows will have access to funds to support their community networking and lobbying initiativees. That said, GI-NET does cover the cost of travel and accomodation to all Fellowship-specific DC events.

Community networking - and political will building for the movement via a community environment - is the mission of the Fellowship. We are every day connecting individual Fellows with like-minded local organizations and/or supporting standing connections that Fellows have within their local areas.

Visit the website at: www.genocideintervention.net/advocate/wilkens/overview

OVERVIEW

The Carl Wilkens Fellowship is a unique opportunity for individuals who care about preventing and stopping genocide and mass atrocities to become dynamic citizen leaders and effective advocates for policy at local, state, and federal levels. In this respect, the Fellowship program seeks to bridge the gap between thought and action in the anti-genocide movement.

In its inaugural year, the Carl Wilkens Fellowship program has worked with twenty (20) individuals from communities across the country and from a diversity of backgrounds - from retired corporate lawyers to filmmakers to computer programmers to communications specialists. Each one of them has been impacted by what is going on in Darfur, in Burma, and in other areas of the world. Through the Fellowship program, each one of these individuals has taken it upon themselves to acquire the tools and resources to build sustained political will within their communities for the prevention and cessation of genocide.

We are thrilled with the rich opportunity that lies before us - to reach out ever more broadly across the country during the Fellowship's second year.

The 2010 application is available off of the Carl Wilkens Fellowship page via this link: www.genocideintervention.net/advocate/wilkens/apply