The American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Emerging Leaders for Liberation Program and the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s (FCNL) Advocacy Corps program are taking applications from young adults who are interested in community organizing or federal policy work.
FCNL’s Advocacy Corps pays young adults ages 19 to 30 to organize their communities around federal legislation over ten months; the upcoming cohort will focus on health care access and nutrition assistance. Applications are open until March 2.
Follow this link to learn more about FCNL’s Advocacy Corps: https://www.fcnl.org/act/young-adult-advocates/advocacy-corps
AFSC’s Emerging Leaders for Liberation program accepts applicants ages 18 to 22 who have a connection to an AFSC program, a Quaker meeting, a Quaker organization, or a Quaker college; participants attend two in-person gathering and also join monthly virtual meetings, The application deadline is March 8.
Follow this link to learn more about AFSC’s Emerging Leaders for Liberation Programs: https://afsc.org/programs/emerging-leaders-liberation
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AFSC’s Emerging Leaders for Liberation (ELL) program unites young people who share a vested interest in social justice and grassroots organizing. Over the course of eight months, participants develop their leadership skills and deepen their commitments to social justice through in-person convenings, virtual meetings, and the completion of a community action project.
Some things that our program offers your students:
- Travel and housing for 2 weekend long in-person convenings where we explore different facets of organizing and visit communities in Philadelphia and across the country
- Monthly virtual meetings with organizers from across the US responding to issues like migrant deportation, gentrification, economic inequality, and police and prison abolition
- Up to $1000 funding to do an action in their own community
The application for the 2026 Emerging Leaders for Liberation (ELL) cohort has officially launched. Applications are open to young people (aged 18-22) who have a relationship with an AFSC program, a Quaker Meeting/organization, or a Quaker college. If you know someone that meets these criteria, please encourage them to apply! The application deadline is March 8.
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FCNL is accepting applications for the Advocacy Corps program until Friday, April 18. In this 10-month program, young adults are paid to be trained as organizers who then mobilize their community. The program is for young adults between the ages of 19-30.
This year’s Advocacy Corps cohort will be lobbying Congress for humane migration policy. This includes challenging the sweeping and indiscriminate deportation, while lifting legal pathways for immigrants, protecting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, and securing humane migration solutions.
The application deadline is Friday, April 18. More information on the program and the application can be found here.
As an alumna of the program, I know the experience can be transformative. I have gained new leadership skills from organizing my community and ensuring their voices heard in Congress.
I had no experience in obbying or publishing in the media before working as an Advocacy Corps organizer. Before I knew it, I was able to build a network of organizers who regularly met their members of Congress on important issues.
I hope you can have the same experience. Apply to Advocacy Corps today!
