Fellowships are open!
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Fellowships are open! 🥕
Get Paid to work for Food Justice and student Food Sovereignty!
🥬 Organizing Fellowship: Lead campus organizing for Real Food, building power and supporting student and producer voices!
🥬 Calculator Fellowship: analyze campus food purchasing with our Real Food Standards and build transparency in your food system!
July '26 - June '27
10 hours per week
July '26 - June '27 10 hours per week
What You’ll Learn
Campus Food Systems
Learn how food moves from producers to your plate, who makes the decisions, and how corporations use money and size to control the system. You’ll understand how campus food systems can hurt small producers and workers, and how to organize for change.
And so much more.
Campaigning
Learn tools based on RFC’s history of campaigning on campuses. You’ll gain skills that you’ll deploy as you actively work to win campaigns on your campus.
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"RFC creates a space where passionate student voices learn, organize, and push for change together. Being a part of such a supportive team that holds inclusive and just values at its core is why I work with RFC."
Belle R.
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""It's been nothing but insightful and inspiring to see all these wonderful people come together and do their part to spread awareness and bring about change to the food industry, while also supporting sustainable food options."
Samantha A-Q
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"Being involved with RFC has illustrated to me how student-led activism and motivation can be transformed into institutional change."
Aisha S.
Gain skills for life.
Work for change on your campus.
Join the national movement.
What You’ll Do in an Organizing Fellowship
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It is a dynamic hybrid position where you are trained and supported over distance to work for change on your campus. It involves self-direction and strong time management.
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Working remotely has unique challenges. As does leading meeting with other students and stakeholders. You’ll be expected to have strong time management and communication skills.
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With support from RFC staff, you will lead campaigning for a Real Food Campus Commitment. This will involve public speaking, problem solving, and collaboration.
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Base-building is important ongoing work. You’ll give classroom pitches, table, and flier. You’ll plan and hold events and build excitement, commitment, and awareness!
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You and other students you recruit will create and share strong messaging in support of your campaign and campus goals!
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As a leader on campus, you’ll be supported in creating a strong, vibrant, and collaborative culture in RFC work. We’ll support you planning for continuity so your work won’t just disappear!