Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) 2025-2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications for the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) 2025-2026 at the moment are open. The Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) is a program geared towards engaged pupil leaders all through the area. Nominations are accepted every spring for the next tutorial yr. Each of TMA’s member presidents is invited to appoint one pupil from their campus for the Fellowship.

Participation within the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship will present college students from throughout the area excessive influence alternatives to develop their management abilities and understanding of civic and neighborhood engagement in order that they could higher function leaders of their communities and collectively create options to the area’s most pressing issues. This fellowship is a key avenue to develop pupil leaders who’re engaged world residents, actively contributing to the creation of equitable, wholesome, sustainable, and socially simply communities.

In addition to receiving pre-fellowship summer season advising and a certificates of completion and commencement wire on the conclusion of this system, the 2025-2026 fellowship will include: 

• Nine digital month-to-month gatherings, together with classes with regional and nationwide specialists centered on points associated to society, the financial system, the setting, and governance, in addition to management improvement, sustainable change making, and advancing fairness by way of lifelong civic and neighborhood engagement within the Mid-Atlantic area;
• An in-individual finish-of-yr retreat hosted by TMA in both Baltimore or DC;
• Networking and relationship constructing as part of a regional cohort of younger and engaged leaders;
• Advising and mentoring by TMA workers, institutional representatives, and accomplice organizations;
• A closing capstone mission (designed with the help of TMA workers);
• Additional workshops, skilled improvement experiences, and recognition!

Benefits

There is not any financial award related to the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship. It is an experiential based mostly program centered on growing Fellows’ understandings of management and their capability to contribute towards optimistic social change.

Civic Fellows will obtain:

• Individualized pre-fellowship summer season advising by TMA workers;
• Recognition by way of TMA web site and media;
• Opportunities to function pupil leaders and mentors with TMA after the shut of the Fellowship yr;
• Information about put up-fellowship management and abilities-based mostly improvement alternatives and individualized profession and nationwide service program communications, together with about TMA’s AmeriCorps VISTA Program;
• Certificate of completion and TMACF commencement wire;
• Letters of advice on TMA letterhead;
• And extra!

Eligibility

• The nominee should be enrolled at a Transform mid-Atlantic member establishment in the course of the Spring 2025 semester, with a number of full years of study remaining on the establishment on the time of nomination (the nominee should be enrolled for the 2025-2026 yr);
• The pupil should be nominated by the president of their establishment;
• For establishments with each undergraduate and graduate packages, presidents are inspired to suggest probably the most deserving pupil, with choice given to undergraduates;
• Nominees from establishments that completely confer affiliate’s levels ought to eother have one yr of educational research remaining at their establishment or plans to switch to a 4-yr establishment in MD, DC, DE, WV, or Northern VA.

Application

The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, February 28, 2025 by the shut of enterprise.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship.