Job o’ the Day: The Center for Popular Democracy in Brooklyn, NY is Looking to Sponsor a 2014-’16 Post-Graduate Fellow
The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) works with partner organizations to deepen their capacity by building strong infrastructure and sophisticated organizing strategies. They catalyze change by tacking critical issues facing low-income communities through campaigns desigend to increase economic justice and civil rights. CPD also regularly partners with leading community organizations, networks, coalitions, labor unions, think tanks and academic institutions to effectuate change.
CPD is seeking applicants for a sponsored 2014-2016 post-graduate fellowship, with possible funding from organizations such as Equal Justice Works, Skadden, Soros, Kirkland Ellis, Liman and other school-specific fellowships. From the PSJD job posting:
The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is a high-impact national organization based in New York City that promotes equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy by partnering with grassroots organizations around the country to build community power and transform the state and local policy landscape. Working in the areas of immigrant and civil rights and economic and community justice, CPD provides legal and strategic support on state and local legislative campaigns that advance a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial justice agenda. We also collaborate with established and emerging grassroots groups as they develop and refine their community organizing methodology and internal management, fundraising, and communications infrastructure. We currently are engaged in 90 projects in 26 states. Our team of nine attorneys and law graduates provides policy, legal, and strategic support on wide array of legislative and administrative campaigns.
CPD is developing and moving cutting-edge policies in partnership with some of the most sophisticated community and labor organizations in the country. Currently, we are:
- Challenging discriminatory policingpolicies and practices;
- Fighting to guarantee access to governmentand private services for speakers of all languages;
- Championing legal representation for immigrants who are detained and facing deportation;
- Advancing the next-generation of wage and hour policies;
- Designing policy solutions to help organize low-wage workersin the warehouse and fast food industries;
- Exploring the use of eminent domain to combat the foreclosure crisis; and
- Advocating for policies that expand the franchise and make it easier to vote.
Through these partnerships, we are achieving and replicating high-impact city and state victories that working families can see, touch and feel every day, while also helping to build a base for a broader shift in values and national priorities.
The application deadline to apply is June 21, 2013. For more information on qualifications and application instructions, view the full job listing at PSJD.org (log-in required).