Generation Change is the Center for Community Change's exciting new program to recruit, train and support a new generation of community organizers and grassroots nonprofit leaders. The Center for Community Change's mission is helping low-income people, especially people of color, build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better. http://www.communitychange.org/

Our internships provide an introduction to the field of community organizing to young people with an interest in social justice, particularly people of color and people from low income backgrounds. Generation Change selects qualified individuals and places them with community organizations in low income communities for a 10-week paid ($400 a week stipend) summer internship in Colorado, Maryland, New York (upstate and NYC), North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington DC, and Washington. During the 10 week program, interns will be exposed to various organizing campaigns, styles and strategies while conducting substantive work and providing support to the organizations where they are based. Interns start the program on June 2, 2008 with a required five day "Introduction to Organizing and Nonprofit Leadership" training program in Nashville, TN. Although each placement will differ, interns will gain organizing skills, learn recruitment and leadership development techniques, conduct research, develop materials, and support local and national campaign activities. At the end of their placements, all interns will be brought together for professional development sessions and a graduation ceremony on August 10-11, 2008 in Washington, DC.

In partnership with the Community Voting Project, GenChange is recruiting and placing 20 fellows for a six month placement with effective community organizations that participate in the Center for Community Change's Community Voting Project. Fellows will be trained in both community organizing and non-partisan electoral skills. Fellows will earn a $500 per week stipend, and health care benefits. Fellows will also receive additional training around targeted electoral work. For a more detailed description of our fellowship, please visit www.genchange.org.