Fellows will devote the equivalent of 1 work day/week towards the fellowship, over 5 months. Benefits include:

• Funding to support creative, innovative, and impactful pro-voter actions
  • Each Fellow will receive a stipend of $5,000 (considered a supplement to regular salary).
  • C4AA will support creative campaign costs up to $12,500 per organization.
• Training to develop ambitious, imaginative activism
  • Fellows will receive extensive training in artistic activism.
  • Fellows will learn skills to share with their colleagues across current and future work. C4AA can also co-lead organization-specific workshops with Fellows during the fellowship period, to further benefit pro-voting campaigns.
• Community through a cohort of leading pro-voting professionals
  • Fellows will join a community of practitioners working across the country to protect voting and voters.
  • The cohort will meet regularly to support each other, share successes, and overcome challenges together.

The fellowship is 5 months, from August through December:

• June-July: Application period and Fellow selection. Deadline to apply — EXTENDED: July 7. Fellows selected by: July 18.
• August-November: Fellowship begins and continues through midterm elections. The fellowship kicks off with a week-long, in-person training (COVID-allowing) led by C4AA’s expert trainers. The training will be in the first week of August, in upstate NY (with time each day to do your jobs–we know it will be a crunch time!). Fellows then return to their organizations to bring increased creativity and innovation to their work.
  • Fellows will have a designated artistic activism mentor and regular meetings with and access to C4AA leadership.
  • Fellows will develop creative actions that will go through multiple rounds of prototyping and assessment, as guided by C4AA, to quantifiably determine what tactics are proving successful in advancing organizations’ objectives.
  • The cohort of fellows will also meet regularly to share successes and challenges and help each others’ common goals.
• December: Fellows, their colleagues, and C4AA evaluate campaigns and the fellowship program overall.

Founded in 2019 by Stacey Abrams and anchored in Georgia, Fair Count works to build long-term power in communities that have been historically undercounted in the decennial census, underrepresented at the polls, and whose communities are often torn apart in redistricting. 

We’ve previously worked with Fair Count, its exceptional president Dr. Jeanine Abrams McLean, and many of its staff through our Holistic Districts Hub, which supported fair districting leaders in Georgia and Wisconsin. Through the Unstoppable Voters Fellowship, we’re thrilled to be working again with Fair Count and their Volunteer Organizer Aileen Loy, as supported by McLean and Program Director Melva Steps.

Projects can be led by anyone but must be in partnership with at least one voting organization and/or in service of an organization’s voting work. Project leads will be contractors of C4AA—this is not a grant system but us contracting people to plan, implement, and promote creative activities in line with the mission of Unstoppable Voters: to protect the freedom to vote in the United States with creativity and innovation.

Projects will be supported with up to $15,000 in funding.

The timeline for projects is approximately 4 months, from August through November:

• June-July: Application period and project selection. Deadline to apply — EXTENDED: July 7. Projects selected by: July 25.
• August-September: Project leads take part in our artistic activism workshop and meet with C4AA leaders to refine ideas.
• September-October: Projects are prototyped and tested, as guided by C4AA. Project leads meet together regularly to share successes and challenges and help each others’ common goals.
• October-November: Revised projects are implemented and evaluated.