In 2006, Wellstone Action Fund launched the Wellstone Fellows program - an intensive training and job placement program for young organizers of color. That first class of Fellows led voter engagement efforts in Minnesota in 2006 and are now making substantial impact in key leadership positions in immigrant rights, labor, and environmental organizations.
Wellstone Action Fund is equally excited to get to know the 2008 class of Fellows. For four weeks in January, the Fellows will participate in hands-on training in the skills of grassroots organizing - focusing on issue advocacy, electoral mobilization, and voter engagement. They will hear from a wide array of community leaders and have an opportunity to develop plans for the campaigns they will lead at their sponsoring organizations.
The Wellstone Fellows Program identifies emerging leaders in communities of color and invests in them with paid training, placement on an organizing campaign, and ongoing support and mentorship.