Nominate a Student for the 2025-2026 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship: Empower Future Leaders in the US to Drive Social Change

The Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) is now accepting nominations for the 2025-2026 educational 12 months. This program is designed for engaged pupil leaders throughout the area, providing precious alternatives to develop management expertise and improve civic and group engagement.

Each 12 months, presidents of TMA member establishments are invited to nominate one pupil from their campus for this prestigious fellowship.

About the Fellowship

The TMACF supplies college students with high-impact experiences that foster management, social duty, and problem-solving skills. Through this fellowship, college students acquire the instruments wanted to change into efficient leaders in their communities, addressing a few of the area’s most urgent challenges. Since its inception, TMACF has empowered pupil leaders to contribute to equitable, wholesome, and sustainable communities. Fellows have pursued careers in public service, authorities, non-profit sectors, and company roles or have superior to graduate research.

The 2025-2026 TMACF cohort will be part of a dynamic community of alumni representing numerous academic establishments, together with two-year and four-year faculties, private and non-private universities, HBCUs, and minority-serving establishments.

Program Components

Fellows will obtain pre-fellowship summer season advising and, upon profitable completion, a certificates and commencement twine. The program contains:

• Nine digital month-to-month periods that includes regional and nationwide specialists on management, governance, sustainability, and social fairness.
• An in-person end-of-year retreat in Baltimore or Washington, D.C.
• Networking alternatives with a regional cohort of engaged pupil leaders.
• Advising and mentorship from TMA employees, institutional representatives, and companion organizations.
• A remaining capstone mission, developed with steerage from TMA employees.
• Additional workshops, skilled improvement periods, and recognition.

In addition to these program parts, Civic Fellows additionally obtain:

• Individualized pre-fellowship summer season advising by TMA employees;
• Recognition by way of TMA web site and media;
• Opportunities to function pupil leaders and mentors with TMA after the shut of the Fellowship 12 months;
• Information about post-fellowship management and skills-based improvement alternatives and individualized profession and nationwide service program communications, together with about TMA’s AmeriCorps VISTA Program;
• Certificate of completion and TMACF commencement twine;
• Letters of advice on TMA letterhead;

Selecting a Civic Fellow

When nominating a pupil, establishments ought to think about candidates who’ve demonstrated:

• Leadership in civic and group engagement or analysis.
• Ability to coordinate collective efforts to handle group or societal challenges.
• Commitment to cross-cultural engagement and advancing justice, fairness, variety, and inclusion (JEDI).
• Potential to drive systemic change in their communities.

TMA encourages establishments to acknowledge college students whose management may in any other case go unnoticed, significantly these from backgrounds historically underrepresented in larger training.

Eligibility Criteria

The establishment’s 2025-2026 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow nominee ought to:

• Be enrolled at a Transform Mid-Atlantic member establishment throughout spring 2025.
• Be nominated by the establishment’s president, with enter from campus representatives.
• Be an affiliate’s diploma, undergraduate, or graduate pupil (Preference is given to undergraduates at establishments that supply each undergraduate and graduate applications).
• Have at the least one 12 months of undergraduate or graduate training remaining (i.e., be enrolled for the full 2025-2026 educational 12 months).
• Nominees from establishments that solely confer affiliate’s levels ought to both have one 12 months remaining or plans to switch to a four-year establishment in Maryland, Washington, D.C., or Delaware.
• Commit to writing a temporary assertion about their work and future plans throughout their fellowship 12 months.
• Receive ongoing assist and advisement from their establishment’s Senior Advisory Group for Engagement (SAGE) liaison or a designated campus advisor.

Nomination Process

Nominations for the 2025-2026 TMACF cohort are actually open. To full a nomination, every campus president (or their consultant) should collect and submit the following info utilizing the on-line nomination submission kind:

• Contact info for campus representatives concerned in the course of.
• Biographical and educational particulars of the nominee.
• A high-quality {photograph} of the nominee (PNG, JPG, or JPEG format).
• A President’s Nomination Letter on official institutional letterhead (PDF format).
• The Nominee’s Narrative, responding to the following prompts:
  1. Leadership: What qualities outline sturdy management? How have you ever demonstrated these qualities in your educational and civic actions?
  2. Sustainability & Problem-Solving: Identify a key problem in your campus or in your group. How have you ever addressed it, or how may you sort out it sustainably in the future? Note: We encourage you to take into consideration sustainability because it has been outlined by the United Nations as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
  3. Skill Development: What management and engagement expertise do you hope to develop, and the way do they align together with your long-term targets?
  4. Commitment to Participation: Do you totally commit to participating in all fellowship actions, together with month-to-month speaker periods, advisory conferences, peer group conferences, and the remaining capstone mission? (Answer “Yes” or “No,” with further particulars if wanted.)

Click to learn about the nomination process!

Important Dates

• Nomination Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025
• Program Duration: The fellowship 12 months follows the educational calendar and can formally start September 1, 2025. It will finish on May 30, 2026. TMA employees will host a welcome occasion in Spring 2025 and 1:1 advising conferences with every fellow throughout Summer 2025 to get to know the cohort and put together for the 12 months forward.

Links

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Request Promotional Materials
TMA gives promotional posters and instance nomination course of guides upon request to assist campus representatives in nominating college students.

For extra particulars, go to the official nomination page.

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