Apply now for the Winter 2024 Changemakers Fellowships!

Changemakers Fellowship Program

2024 Winter Fellowships - Apply by January 5th!

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Start Date: February 1st
End Date: Mid-June

We are currently seeking two winter 2024 Fellows who represent the geographic diversity of the state of Maine.

Fellowship I — Part time contract position paying a $3,800 stipend with an additional $500 budget to support an environmental community action project that you are passionate about.  Total hours is approximately 200 hours. This position will help organize MEEA’s annual conference in May and will also support a project studying the youth climate movement in Maine with MEEA and Maine Youth For Climate Justice.

Fellowship II — Part time contract position paying a $1900 stipend with an additional $500 budget to support an environmental community action project that you are passionate about. Total hours is approximately 100 hours. This position will support the work of the Maine Environmental Changemakers Network.

Network Guiding Principles and Core Beliefs: 

• Commit to a growth mindset

• Utilize collaborative power to challenge norms and ask hard questions

• Dream big

• Learn intergenerationally through an exchange of resources, support, and knowledge

• Support youth leaders as they grow in their skills over time (multi-year engagement)

• Build meaningful long-term relationships with one another and our communities

• Advocate for a more inclusive and equitable environmental sector

• Tell our stories to the sector

• Find solidarity and hope in our community

• Center the voices of marginalized youth

• Grow our skills, knowledge, and power to be more effective collaborators and civically engaged

• Care for ourselves and our communities

Changemakers Fellowships provide leadership development for youth ages 18-25 who are passionate about environmental and social justice advocacy, with a specific focus on youth who have faced marginalization in exploring their passions for this work.

Fellows are paid a stipend and work with MEEA to build their individual, flexible work plan. Work can be done where fellows currently live. Fellows meet with their MEEA mentors frequently, and will check in using video conferencing, phone calls and in person meetings. Throughout the fellowship, our Changemakers learn a multitude of skills including but not limited to website building, grant writing/fundraising efforts, workshop facilitation, event planning and networking.