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MAAP 2010 Application Cycle: January 4th- April 16th, 2010
MAAP 2010 CYCLE DATES: June 14th to August 6th, 2010
Application Deadline: April 16th, 2010
CLICK HERE to view the MAAP Application Form.
Want to be a host site? Interested organizations please contact Araceli Centeno, Program Coordinator at araceli@ctwo.org.
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The Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP), established in 1985, is an 8-week-long intensive training program that provides people of color with the opportunity to develop skills and experience in grassroots organizing. For the past 25 years, MAAP has been the Movement's flagship organizer-training program for people of color, bringing motivated young activists together from all over the country to teach them the science and art of organizing communities around their most salient issues. MAAP has trained more than 300 organizers, many of whom currently hold positions of responsibility within social-justice organizations around the country.
MAAP Application Process
To be accepted into MAAP, participants go through an initial application process. To view the MAAP application, CLICK HERE. In order to be considered, applicants are required to submit application & go through one of CTWO's Community Action Trainings (CAT). This not only gives CTWO the chance to set up a formal interview but it also allows CTWO to observe the skill level of the applicant is at and how well he/she works in a group*. Applicants will also have the opportunity to observe our training style and intensity in order to see if this is the program for them.
Applicants will either be accepted, declined, or waitlisted. Acceptance will be based on a number of things, including the interview, references, performance, the pool of applicants, availability of organizations, and resources. If MAAP applicants are considered, they are notified their training for a second interview, via phone call or in person. Those who are waitlisted will be notified and updated on status. If accepted, the applicant will receive a formal call and letter of acceptance. Accepted applicants must confirm or decline no more than 3 days after their notification. Failure to meet this deadline may mean that you are forgoing your spot to someone who is waitlisted.**
Host sites also go through a process of applying to have MAAP interns placed at their organization. Host sites are required to follow a specific set of criteria as mapped out in the application in order to qualify for placement. CTWO works diligently to ensure as many hosts as resources allow to match the needs of our pool of applicants.
*Note: There are specific cases where we make exceptions, which are to be determined by CTWO.
**There may be special circumstances in which the 3-day deadline is difficult. If this occurs, the accepted applicant should consult with CTWO.
MAAP Training and Field Placement
Acceptance grants participation in the MAAP orientation, a 5-day of intensive training to prepare participants for the field. During this week, CTWO makes assessments and final determinations of placement***. Accepted participants are responsible for round-trip travel and ground transportation arrangements to and from the CTWO Training and Retreat Center in Oakland, CA. Participants are expected to stay overnight for the entire duration of the training****. At the end of orientation, participants are placed in different sites around the country to go through field training for six weeks.
Interns will be full-time staff members of organizations and will be provided with a $250/week stipend (before tax), temporary health insurance, as well as secured housing and local transportation accommodations for the duration of their fieldwork. CTWO will cover the cost of round-trip travel between Oakland and their placement sites. CTWO determines placement through several considerations: the need of the host organization (i.e. language, gender, particular skills, etc), the organization's geographical location, the general pool of interns and hosts. Although interns may express preferences, CTWO makes final decisions about where interns are placed.
To enrich the MAAP experience, CTWO prefers to place people with organization outside the area that they are from/familiar with, allowing interns to learn about a community and organizing with a fresh perspective. In the few cases when a MAAP intern's placement is close to home, he/she is still expected to live in housing arranged by the host organization. Housing arrangements will vary depending on the resources of the host organization. CTWO strongly advocates hosts to arrange for interns to have space of their own, preferably with people outside of the organization's staff. Interns should expect to more likely have shared bedrooms with another intern. All organizations are working with limited budgets and promise to make the most comfortable arrangements possible.
Interns are expected to make a full-time commitment. During the duration of the program, they will not be able to go to school or take another job while doing MAAP. They should anticipate an intensive 8 weeks and plan accordingly. MAAP interns will be working on active campaigns, requiring 8-12 hour days, 6 and in some cases 7 days a week.
While interns are working on the campaign of the organization, they must also fulfill MAAP curriculum requirements. In addition to implementing the elements of the CRAFT, which stands for contact, research, action, fundraising and teamwork (see MAAP Curriculum), there are other various obligations to the MAAP program. These include: fundraising for the MAAP Scholarship Fund, completing weekly reports, preparing for weekly check-ins, participating in a midterm field training, and producing a final site report and presentation.
If interns fulfill their obligations and successfully complete the fieldwork portion of their training, they will return to CTWO for a 5-day debrief and evaluation. CTWO reserves all rights to decide who graduates from the program. Interns will have a chance to collectively share reflections, experiences, and lessons learned, through training pieces and facilitated discussions. Debrief week culminates in a final graduation ceremony open to friends, family, and allies in the community, who will have the opportunity to see the work interns completed over the summer.
***CTWO reserves the right to make reassessments of participant’s ability to continue the program based on performance during orientation week.
****This obligation applies to all participants, including those who reside in the Bay Area. Participants should expect to have a full schedule and make no prior personal commitments during this week.
MAAP Curriculum
MAAP interns work together to learn how to conduct systematic contact work, research communities and campaign issues, organize large-scale public actions, conduct grassroots fundraising, and work with others to design and carry out intensive campaign plans. CTWO remains committed to emphasizing direct-action community organizing as the way to empower communities. Thus, interns spend the majority of their time developing their skills around contact work - cultivating relationships and working with members and leaders to build an organization. CTWO uses the acronym CRAFT to represent the basic elements of the craft of organizing. During the MAAP orientation, participants have training in these elements. The following is an overview of the areas in which MAAP interns gain experience using CRAFT:
CONTACT: Face-to-face interactions with constituents, using techniques such as doorknocking, signature-gathering, house meetings, personal visits, and organizational presentations.
RESEARCH: The systematic process of gathering information on communities or campaign targets through surveys, interviews, research and tactical intelligence gathering.
ACTION: Large group activities that build organizational cohesion, develop leaders, and advance an overall strategy (i.e. accountability sessions, rallies and demonstrations, and picket lines).
FUNDRAISING: The crucial skills of developing organizational resources, with a creative grassroots emphasis, and through direct solicitation of members and supporters.
TEAMWORK: The practice of organizing where collective action and systems of accountability are fostered, which allows people to achieve much more together than they can ever hope to do alone.
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HELP DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF RACIAL JUSTICE LEADERS!!
An investment in the MAAP program is an investment in the future. Most MAAP trainees graduate from the program and directly start a full-time job with a community organization or a union. Make an investment today and develop tomorrow's leadership by contributing to the MAAP Scholarship Fund!
The MAAP Scholarship Fund makes it possible for us to recruit, train and mentor a new corps of young organizers of color each year. Here's how your contribution can help make a difference:
Full Scholarship: $7,000 covers the full expenses of recruiting, training and developing one MAAP intern.
Partial Scholarships:
$5,000 will subsidize the organizing expense of one intern for 6 weeks in the field.
$2,750 will subsidize the travel, lodging, food and health insurance during intern's field placement.
$1,500 will cover for one intern's stipend.
$500 will cover one intern's training and materials.
$250 will cover training one intern's field supervision.
$100 will help support our recruitment efforts to reach more young people of color to become tomorrow's leaders.
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