The Strategic Campaigns Fellowship prepares fellows to understand and employ comprehensive, strategic campaigns.
Over 12 months, fellows learn to research targets, build and enact campaign plans, and iterate strategy to effectively win changes for workers, our communities, and the environment.
The Fellowship
We work directly with the local organizations and groups accepted into the program to hire or select fellows. While we customize fellows’ development paths based on their experience, core components of the program provide everyone with the training and support needed to successfully work toward change. These components include but are not limited to:
Mentorship
Mentors provide 1:1 support to each fellow and their organization. Through regular meetings and communication, mentors support the development of the fellow’s skills as well as their organization’s campaign—helping to troubleshoot issues that may arise and brainstorm potential strategies to move the campaign forward.
Relationship Building:
Fellows are part of a collaborative program that includes strategic campaigners, lead organizers, and organizing directors from the partner organizations in the program. Fellows build relationships with people working on campaigns targeting corporations across a variety of areas and develop a network of support that will exist long after the program ends.
Skills Development
Fellows participate in a series of meetings with their colleagues from program organizations where they practice the skills they learned in the training sessions. This might include preparing corporate research documents, developing tactics, planning actions, or writing campaign documents. They receive feedback from their peers, as well as experienced strategic campaigners, to help sharpen their skills.
Training
We deliver training using a variety of formats, settings, and models, all centered on practical learning. Specific content areas include a combination of topics and case studies, such as:
- Financialization and its impact
- History of movement approaches to enacting strategic, comprehensive campaigns
- Where and how to find information about corporate targets
- Development of effective campaign plans to engage those targets
- Strategies and approaches for campaigning around public corporations, including shareholder engagement
Eligibility
We require organizations to have certain characteristics consistent with campaigning for social, economic, and environmental change:
- Grassroots Organization: Organizations/groups must be local or regional.
- 501(c)(3) Status (or equivalent): Organizations must have active 501(c)(3) status, be legally classified as a labor organization, or be fiscally sponsored by an entity with active 501(c)(3) status. Organizations outside of the United States should have the equivalent of 501(c)(3) or labor organization status in the country in which they operate.
- Directly Impacted: Organizations must work directly with those impacted by the issue they are advocating for or against.
- Active or Ready Campaign: Organizations must have an active campaign with a corporate target or be ready to launch one during the program.
- Employ a Potential Fellow: Organizations must be willing to hire a strategic campaigner to participate in the fellowship or, in select cases, fellows can be existing staff members. The campaigner (fellow) must be able to actively participate in the 12-month fellowship.
- Committed: Organizations must commit to developing the capacity to execute comprehensive campaigns focused on social, racial, economic, and climate justice.
The fellowship application period is now closed. We will begin accepting applications for the 2027–2028 cohort in summer 2026.
