Paradigm Shift

• In-person activist trainings covering key women’s rights issues in NYC, social media campaigning, lobbying, outreach such as tabling and petitioning, fundraising, and more.
• Ongoing mentorship by NOW-NYC leadership.
• Access to local women’s rights leaders.
• Entrance to NOW-NYC programs and events.
• Hands on experience with activism, women’s rights campaigns, and the nonprofit world.
• Becoming part of a growing network of NOW-NYC volunteer and intern alums.
• Resume builders such as nonprofit project management, communications and development experience

• Attend all activist training sessions:
  (1) Saturday, January 26, 11am-4pm;
  (2) Select Activist Trainings (Tuesday & Thursday nights) – Dates TBA

• Participate in monthly Activist Alliance Meetings at the NOW-NYC office (held the 2nd Tuesday of each month, 6-8pm)
  
  
• Commit to ongoing special projects and participate in regular events including:
  *Provide ongoing support of NOW-NYC social media campaigns
  *Help organize Activist Nights and social gatherings
  *Spearhead tabling events, phone banking and petitioning
  *Support fundraising and membership development (commit to annual goal)
  *Help organize and attend protests and rallies

1. Please summarize any of your activist/volunteer experience to date (300 words max)
2. In your own words, briefly describe your relationship to feminism or similar perspectives (womanist, mujerist, women’s rights, etc.). We understand applicants may have varying definitions of “progressive” and “feminist.” Tell us clearly what those terms mean to you and how you identify with them. (300 words max)
3. What do you hope to achieve through participating in NOW-NYC’s Activist Alliance? (300 words max)
4. Why do you think you would be an effective member of the Activist Alliance? (300 words max)
5. How did you learn about NOW-NYC’s Activist Alliance?
6. Please list two references (academic or professional).

NOW-NYC Rally Against Culture of Sexual Harassment in Albany

Thursday, October 11^th 12:00pm – 1:00pm

Steps of City Hall ***

A poll conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post late last year found that one in four women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.  Sexual harassment is both an issue of equality and economics for women.  It has a real impact on women’s lives— their reputation, their livelihood, their career prospects. Join with NOW-NYC, women, equal rights advocates,  unions, and good government groups to put our leaders in Albany on notice:  Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s actions and the cover-up of sexual harassment at the top levels of government are unacceptable.

Bring signs with your demands: End Sexual Harassment; Albany: Stop the Cover-Up; Give Vito Lopez the Boot; JCOPE Do Justice

Directions to City Hall: 2,3 trains to Park Place; N, R trains to City Hall; 4,5,6 trains to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall.

www.nownyc.org