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Dear Legna,
We are happy to share with you some highlights from our exciting fall season. Be sure to check out resources, resilience offerings and the new WILL Empower blogpost. Also, CIWO Fellowships and Build the Bench Retreat applications are now open -- scroll down for the links! Thank you for your continued support of CIWO and our work.
With gratitude,
Sheri & the CIWO Team
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Celebrating 10 Years of CIWO and Marilyn's Legacy
On September 19, 2024, CIWO marked our 10th anniversary and honored the legacy of Marilyn Sneiderman, Founding Executive Director of CIWO and Distinguished Professor of Practice at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. The celebration, hosted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C., brought together over 100 attendees to celebrate Marilyn’s impactful career in the labor movement and legacy as a community builder and "movement mama" to so many.
Marilyn, thank you for ten years of extraordinary leadership at CIWO. Congratulations on Professor Emeritus status! We wish you the best in this new stage of your life.
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Updates from CIWO's SHIFT Program
Seeding Holistic Innovation For Transformation (SHIFT) is where leaders & organizations can seed their innovative solutions at CIWO. We provide support (programmatic, administrative, financial) to cutting-edge ideas for social, racial, immigrant, gender, and worker justice movements. Read our SHIFT newsletter here to learn more about these leaders, the organizations that they lead, and the innovation they are bringing to social and economic justice movements.
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Apply/Nominate for 2025 CIWO Fellowships Today! | |
Build the Bench Fellowship
CIWO's Build the Bench (BTB) Fellows will have have the opportunity to work with the Build the Bench Advisory Council and Build the Bench participants to co-create our 2025 programming. Fellows will also have access to an annual stipend ($5,000), mentorship, and opportunities to connect with the full Build the Bench network and other CIWO fellows!
There are 2 type of BTB Fellowships.
Prerequisites for each are:
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Previous experience with Build the Bench programming, and/or
- Work for a union in the CIWO network and demonstrate interest in shaping the Unions Build the Bench pilot
Apply or Nominate a leader for a Build the Bench Fellowship by November 15, 2024!
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Innovation Fellowship
CIWO is currently recruiting fellows who are focused on implementing an innovative project in the racial, gender, & worker justice movements. This fellowship is an opportunity to lift up the leadership of those who are mobilizing at the margins and to offer them consistent support with the development of ideas that lead to actionable movement victories.
Innovation Fellows will have curated support for their projects over the 12 month fellowship, access to an annual stipend ($5,000), mentorship, and opportunities to connect with other CIWO fellows through virtual and in person retreats. There are NO prerequisites for this fellowship.
Apply or Nominate a leader for an Innovation Fellowship by January 12, 2025!
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NEW Toolkit for Organizers: "Building Worker Power in the Digital Age" | | |
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Building Worker Power in the Digital Age: Popular Education Tools for Organizers is a new toolkit that contains a series of popular education modules and activities to facilitate worker- and community-based discussions, strategizing, and power-building on workplace and social justice issues that intersect with work and technology. Read more & download the full toolkit here. This comprehensive toolkit was co-authored by PowerSwitch Action, Gig Workers Rising, and the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, with contributions from Ryan Gerety (Director, Athena Coalition), Seeta Peña-Gangadharan (co-founder and co-lead of Our Data Bodies), and Naomi Campbell (Director, Legal Empowerment Program, Right Question Institute). Wilneida Negrón wrote the Foreword. | |
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Labor Research and Action Network
New Scholars Research Grants - Call for Proposals (2024-25)
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The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) brings together workers’ rights advocates, academics, and students with the shared goal of building workplace and economic power for workers in the United States. One of the organization’s key objectives is to help develop the next generation of labor researchers to collaborate in identifying and solving obstacles as we build a better, more inclusive labor movement.
LRAN is pleased to announce a competition for seed grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 for labor folks who are engaged in research as activists, policy-makers, and academics. Consistent with LRAN's mission, we strongly encourage collaborative efforts and activist scholarship directly related to workers and workers' rights organizations. Applications that use funds to support labor and community organizations or to compensate grassroots and student researchers for what would otherwise be unpaid labor will be prioritized. See the Call for Proposals here!
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