2024 - 2025 ADVOCACY AND ORGANIZING FELLOWSHIP MANAGER COMMITMENT FORM
The Advocacy & Organizing Fellowship is a year-long stipended leadership development cohort for artivists, creative workers, and emerging cultural leaders to sharpen their community organizing capacity and grow their advocacy skills for a more equitable and inclusive creative sector.
Your Support is Crucial
As a manager of an Advocacy and Organizing Fellowship candidate, your role is vital to their success. The program requires an investment in time. This means the participant may have to commit to time away from the office, which also impacts your business. The most successful participants from the program have a high level of support from their managers.
Please review the program calendar and time commitment expectations and then complete the Manager’s Commitment form below.
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In-Person Dates:
Opening Retreat in Worcester, MA | November 22, 2024 | 9:30 AM - 5 PMMassachusetts State House in Boston | June 11th, 2025 | 9 AM - 5 PM
End-of-Year Celebration location TBD | November 5th, 2025 | 12pm -7pm
Virtual Sessions:
December 11, 2024 | 4 PM - 6 PMJanuary 8th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
January 22nd, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
February 5th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
February 19th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
March 13th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
March 26th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
April 16th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
April 30th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
May 14th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
May 28th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
June 25th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
July 9th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
July 23rd, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
August 6th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
August 20th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
September 3rd, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
September 17th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
October 1st, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
October 15th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
November 19th, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
Attendance at the Opening Retreat, visit to the State House, and Final Presentation is mandatory. Fellows are allowed two excused absences from other scheduled sessions due to professional or personal needs. -
A central focus of each fellow's year will be their cultural policy organizing project. Each fellow applies to a specific cultural policy or issue facing the Massachusetts creative sector.
Through community organizing, grassroots power building, and strategy, the fellow will work to address their issue and identify a solution they can advocate for elected decision-makers to support.
We anticipate fellows spending 6-9 hours a month on cultural policy projects, in addition to four hours of cohort sessions.
While fellows are expected to use their own time on their projects, we anticipate there may be times when these efforts may overlap with scheduled work time.
COMMITMENT FORM
Please complete the below form and submit it before September 23 at 11:59 pm.
