As an Advocacy Corps organizer, you’ll connect local activists and leaders with your members of Congress to affect big, long-term change. You’ll also learn critical organizing skills and put them into practice with hands-on leadership experience.
The Advocacy Corps application is open!
Get paid to lobby Congress on police militarism
The Advocacy Corps is a 9 month-long program where young adults between the ages of 19-30 get paid to organize their local community around federal legislation. Advocacy Corps organizers connect local activists and leaders with their local member of Congress to affect big, long-term change. During the course of this program, Advocacy Corps organizers learn critical organizing skills and put them into practice with hands-on leadership experience.
MEET THE ORGANIZERS
Advocacy Corps organizers…
- Recruit local volunteers
- Meet with members of Congress
- Organize others to meet with members of Congress and their staff
- Write letters to the editor and op-eds
- Mobilize people to come to Washington
The logistics:
- Spend 10 days in Washington, DC at the Summer Intensive Training. Meet other Corps members and FCNL staff.
- Organize in your community from September through May.
- Come back to DC — expenses paid — for the weekend in November and March for FCNL’s lobby days.
- Get paid $3000 for successful work.