JUSTICECORPS offers recent graduates and activists the opportunity to join “battles for progressive change.”
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JUSTICECORPS:
Full-Time Community Organizing Jobs for Economic Justice
Want a Career Creating Social Change?
Our Goal
In the interest of building and sustaining a widespread grassroots movement for social and economic justice, JUSTICECORPS seeks to attract top-notch recent graduates and young activists to jobs devoted to making America a more equitable society. Struggles to end homelessness, create a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, renew communities, reform welfare and education, and redirect budget priorities require the participation and leadership of a new generation of social change activists. JUSTICECORPS is a strategy for linking young activists to local, state, and national battles for progressive change. In its inaugural year 2002, JUSTICECORPS accepted and placed 15 applicants. This year, we aim to expand to create 20-30 more jobs.
Organizing and Advocacy Jobs
JUSTICECORPS offers positions with community organizations on the front lines of battles for economic justice. Such groups include the nationwide affiliates of ACORN (Associated Community Organizations for Reform Now), the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Wisconsin’s WISDOM, and San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic. JUSTICECORPS jobs typically involve community organizing on local, state, and national campaigns. Duties include door-to-door recruitment, leadership development, organizing a community base, and coordinating and initiating strategic campaigns.
JUSTICECORPS is not an internship. All placements are one-year professional salaried positions with the participating organizations, earning between $18,500-$23,000 plus benefits. Following the initial year, we encourage JUSTICECORPS organizers to obtain ongoing, full-time employment with their organization or with other economic justice groups. All JUSTICECORPS organizers are required to attend a one-month paid training with the nation’s leading organizers and activists in August. Jobs are scheduled to begin in early September, 2003.
How To Apply
Qualifications: We are seeking recent college graduates and young activists interested in social and economic justice, with organizing or activist experience. People of color and Spanish speakers strongly encouraged to apply.
Visit our website www.JUSTICECORPS.org for information on how to apply. Application deadline is April 7, 2002. Admittance is rolling so applicants are encouraged to apply early. Phone interviews will begin in March with final selections made by May 1. For those who choose to participate, a commitment to the program is required by May 15.
For more information: E-mail Justicecorps@thclinic.org or visit www.JUSTICECORPS.org
JUSTICECORPS is a project of Housing America. Housing America Director Randy Shaw has worked on economic justice campaigns for 20 years and is the author of The Activist ‘s Handbook and Reclaiming America: Nike, Clean Air, and the New National Activism. JUSTICECORPS is not affiliated with Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, GreenCorps, or the government.
