Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP)

The Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP), established in 1985, is a paid summer intensive training program that provides Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other people of color with the opportunity to develop skills and experience in grassroots organizing. For 40 years, MAAP has been one of the movement’s flagship organizer training programs 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.

The Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) is a nine-week paid program that offers aspiring organizers a unique opportunity to learn the nuts and bolts of organizing, what it means to organize through a racial justice lens, and how to build power that shifts the conditions in our communities. This entry-level program offers hands-on organizing experience through fieldwork, participating in campaign actions, movement history, and deep skill-building workshops.