Apply by June 5, 2025: USCPR Palestine Youth Organizer Development Fellowship

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Access training, mentorship, coaching, & deep strategy support to build your capacity as an advocate for Palestine!

Since the fall of 2020, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights has built youth organizing skills and leadership by mentoring 13 cohorts of Palestine youth organizing fellows. We’ve helped over 43 fellows improve their capacity to nurture campaigns and tactics that translate grassroots power—local boycott campaigns, student divestment wins, and local policy changes—into the power needed to build a more just world. 

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Strengthen your organizing skills with us via the Paid Palestine Youth Organizing Fellowship – Apply by June 5, 2025

Time frame: July 7-December 19
8 hours per week expected time commitment
Stipend:$6,032
Location:Anywhere in the US, with prioritization of the US South; all fellowship calls are all remote. Fellows will be invited to an in-person convening (tentatively fall 2025) with COVID-19 safety protocols in place.

Campaign Areas For Mentorship

For context, we’re proud to have mentored leaders of powerful, youth-led campaigns like Cleveland/Cuyahoga County Break the Bonds, Vermont Apartheid Free Communities Referendum, Eleos Out of Healthcare, Stop Home Destroyer Hyundai, New Orleans Stop Helping Israel’s Ports & Mask Off Maersk, Seattle End the Deadly Exchange, UT Dallas Divest from Death, Suspend Pitzer Haifa Study Abroad, and Reject IHRA Montgomery County. 

This year we are equipped to mentor fellows who are involved in independent local campaigns in the following categories:

  1. Divestment campaigns 
  2. Boycott Chevron local campaigns (including drop sponsorships, city council divestment, and other approaches)
  3. Mask Off Maersk local campaigns
  4. Strategic new campaigns, such as corporate pressure campaigns or cross-movement campaigns

We are especially prioritizing supporting people who organize in working class and/or working poor basebuilding orgs, especially organizations that are primarily Black or Palestinian.

Fellow Responsibilities & Expectations

Fellow Responsibilities:

  • Attend and engage actively with USCPR monthly fellows organizing skills workshops on 3rd Mondays 8-10pm ET / 5-7pm PT to share your local organizing work and sharpen your leadership skills. Fellows are expected to participate in every workshop, but can get special permission to miss one workshop for a pre-planned conflict. (And, exceptions are made for personal emergencies). Fellows grow concrete organizing skills and long-term relationships, and transfer that skill building by training your local groups.
  • Receive USCPR mentorship sessions, every other week with your USCPR mentor and monthly with your USCPR peer coach. These sessions help you structure and prioritize your base-building, shared leadership/org development, and campaign escalation. 
  • Apply USCPR mentorship and training to set basebuilding goals, such as growing membership, strengthening leadership, and/or building membership & institutional memory structures.
  • Track your basebuilding wins, campaign escalation wins, and accomplishments for personal accountability and to support grassroots fundraising for the continuation of the program.
  • Work with fellows and USCPR communications experts to help you figure out how to make your work visible and also safe in accordance with your personal anonymity/security needs.

Fellow Qualifications:

  • You are 18-35 years old as of the start of the program, June 23, 2025.
  • You are available for virtual fellowship orientation and workshop sessions (3rd Mondays, except for the orientation which is the 2nd Monday), for which you can miss a max of 1 session. Sessions will be 8-10pm EST / 5-7pm PST on:
    • July 14
    • July 21
    • August 18
    • September 15
    • October 20
    • November 17
    • December 15
  • You are passionate about learning from organizers in other communities.
  • You are part of an org or group that’s running a local Palestine campaign under the criteria above, which you can apply USCPR’s mentorship to.
  • You support USCPR values around supporting collective liberation for everyone, including Palestinian people, Black people, brown people, Indigenous people, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, immigrants, women, non-binary folks, and are aligned with our common principles.

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