community change

Professional Development and Post-Graduate Opportunities

We are all about preparing and connecting our current students and graduates to off-campus learning, professional development, and employment in the field of community change. See below for a list of current and upcoming opportunities. In addition, we invite our students and community partners to join the Community Organizing at CCNY Facebook Group, which is for sharing news, events and internship and job opportunities with current and past students.

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  • We encourage both current students and alumni working in any capacity of social change work to apply for the fellowships at the CUNY Institute for Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice (LDSJ). LDSJ is a joint project of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. It is dedicated to supporting a diverse cohort of leaders from the communities at the forefront of social justice movements, and its fellowship programs for early-career activists involve coursework, several weekend workshops, and an internship. Its fellowship for mid-career activists, is focused on a series of intensive workshops and networking among movement leaders.
  • We encourage graduating students to apply for Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development (ANHD)’s Center for Community Leadership (CCL) Organizing Apprenticeship Program for early- and mid-career organizers. It involves 10 months of on the job (4 days/week) and classroom (1 day/week) training between September and June + a $20,000 stipend ($24,000 in the second year), health benefits, childcare/food stamps/other support as needed. The host orgs are always a rockstar list of groups from across the city working on all of the urgent and important issues. Here’s a link to FAQs about the program and to 10 reasons why the program is going strong after 10 years. Note: the apprenticeship program is paused for this year due to COVID-19.
     
  • The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (formerly the Joseph Murphy Institute for Labor Studies) has a “Community Semester” program, which is a full-time, intensive academic and service learning program that provides students with an opportunity to put their passion for social justice to work. Students learn first-hand how community-based organizations fight for environmental justice, housing rights, immigrant rights, tenants’ rights, economic justice, youth engagement, neighborhood resilience, civic justice, and community empowerment by contributing to the movement themselves. Students analyze the experience they gain in the field by studying community organizing, community development, government, and non-profit leadership, and by sharing their work experiences with fellow Community Semester students and with students in the School of Labor and Urban Studies sister program, Union Semester. As part of the program, students receive a $7,000 financial award toward educational expenses, an Advanced (Graduate) Certificate in Community Leadership, and 12 credits towards an MA in Urban Affairs.
     
  • The Urban Studies Department at Queens College offers a Master of Arts degree in Urban Affairs, which provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cities, especially New York City. The program prepares students for professional work in urban administration, organization and policy in the public and nonprofit sectors.
     
  • The Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College offers a Masters in Community Organizing, Planning, and Development, which prepares students for community practice at the neighborhood, political, policy and system levels. The program stresses the theories, skills, strategies, and techniques needed to mobilize both people and resources; and highlights social planning and social reform aspects of social work practice, training students to promote social justice by fostering change for community well-being.
     
  • The Masters in Public Administration program at City College prepares degree candidates – especially those from communities traditionally underserved and intentionally marginalized – with the skill and capacity to drive equitable change in mission-driven organizations. It combines a social justice lens on public administration with a focus on communities, an interdisciplinary approach, and an emphasis on public service management that is really in the public interest.

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  • ANHD Job Board– a webpage of listings for New York City non-profit positions that assist low- and moderate-income and / or homeless New Yorkers; listed in the following groupings: ANHD jobs; Development & Nonprofit; Government & Service; Internship, Fellowship, & Volunteer; & Organizing Jobs. Also, through the ANHD website you can sign up for up to 4 different email newsletters, including “Organizer’s Weekly,” which announces new organizing job openings on a weekly basis.
     
  • City Limits Job Ads page – similar to the ANHD Job Board, but it’s definitely worth checking both.
     
  • Idealist.org and Foundationlist.org – websites that connect people looking for jobs (or volunteer or internship opportunities) with nonprofit organizations that need people- primarily in the U.S. but also in other other countries. You can search by issue area, org type, and location.

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Last Updated: 10/27/2022 11:40