Fellows apply these skills to recruit, train, and manage volunteers in their own region, and use our peer-to-peer texting platform to engage with millions of people about federal, state, and local benefits that they may be eligible to receive.
Fellows graduate not only with practical skills and knowledge, but as a part of a network of passionate leaders in the anti-poverty workspace. As part of the program, fellows regularly meet with GSO leadership to learn about nonprofit, anti-poverty, and advocacy careers.
Fellows are part-time, remote, temporary employees. Fellowships run for 5 months at a time, with 1-2 cohorts per year. Applications are accepted during select periods throughout the year.
“I’m doing this fellowship with GSO because I believe in their mission of ending poverty. I also want to do anything I can to end poverty as someone who comes from a single parent low income household. I know first hand how hard it can be growing up in poverty. I know how much my mom could have benefitted from the CalEITC. I know the work we do here is important. I want to be able to end poverty in my community and this is one of the ways I’ve committed to doing so.”
“I see this program as GSO’s way of building the movement by developing and supporting organizing skills in people that have a passion for ending poverty. We want to empower people who have lived experience with these programs that we work with and have a passion for ending poverty. We want them to stay part of our network, of the movement, even after the Fellowship is over and help them grow as people and organizers.”