We know a lot is at stake for our communities in 2024, so we are planning a six-month fellowship from February – August to explore the tactics and strategies that help us win for our communities both offline and online. Are you a powerbuilding org focused on shifting the political landscape of your state? If so, your organizers and key staff who hold base-building roles or who work to target opposition would be a great fit for this fellowship.

Read below for more information.

What will the fellowship include?

• Organizers will bring a priority campaign so that they can implement learnings immediately. From March - May, fellows will meet three times a month for training sessions and workshops. From June - August, fellows will meet 1-2 times per month for training sessions. Kairos will also host regular office hours where participants will receive coaching.

• We start with a kickoff session for Organizing Directors and/or managers of fellows to set expectations and offer tools for helping the organization take in digital strategies from the fellowship.

• After each training session, organizers will walk away with an action step to implement learnings in real-time. We’ll discuss the challenges and successes of implementing these in Kairos’ digital spaces (Strive, Google Groups, Signal), in office hours, and workshops.

• Kairos will host a monthly cohort call (regional or issue-based) to discuss campaigning or regional nuance and strategy that is open to Organizing Directors and/or managers who are welcome though not required to attend.
  

what skills will fellows take away?

How to build strategies for digital organizing
Kairos trains organizations based on our core understanding that most teams (whether they are aware or not) possess the capacity to organize in the digital realm and just need support implementing their ideas online. We will help your organization not only understand but execute based on this knowledge. Read more about our organizing pedagogy here.

How to not reinvent the wheel
Fellows will learn from expert organizing strategists, examine current and historic case studies, receive training, and learn how to use experimentation to their benefit with focus on your organization’s priority campaigns.

Read more about the fellowship curriculum here.

Who is leading the fellowship?

Kairos has cultivated a team of partners and consultants to assist on each element of the curriculum. These partners and consultants span decades of experience in the field and offer expertise in various areas of organizing, both online and offline.

On the Kairos team, our Director of Organizing and Organizing Manager – Joe and Kelvin, respectively – have 25 combined years of organizing experience spanning housing, electoral, labor, youth, racial justice, and LGTBQ+ organizing from California (Los Angeles) to New England (Massachusetts & New Hampshire). After a year of training on these principles with 60+ organizations and 120+ organizers, they are excited for a deeper-dive in 2024 centered around intentionally diverse skillset acquisition for organizers in the movement during one of the most pivotal electoral years in our lifetime.

Who is participating?

Our goal is to recruit numerous organizations within as many states as possible to foster statewide capacity for power building. That said, we have partners from all over the U.S. jumping in to this fellowship including: the People’s Action network and affiliates including Down Home North Carolina and Arkansas Public Policy Panel, as well as other organizations including We The People Michigan, New Georgia Project, Florida Rising, La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), and Ground Game LA.

Interested and ready to sign up?

Click here to sign-up to connect with the Organizing Team – we can’t wait to partner with you.