By NLIHC Field Team
Applications are now open for NLIHC’s inaugural Organizing Fellowship, set to launch this fall for NLIHC member organizations.
The NLIHC Organizing Fellowship is an intensive, nine-session program that trains staff at NLIHC member organizations in the fundamentals of community organizing. Each session will last for three hours over Zoom. The fellowship will provide budding organizers with the tools to launch or strengthen new and ongoing organizing campaigns that build tenant power to improve material conditions for those with the lowest incomes. The fellowship will subsequently create a growing alumni network of trained organizers who will forward NLIHC’s mission for state and local organizing with a long-term vision of building national tenant power.
Twenty-five fellows will be chosen for the Fall 2026 cohort, which will run from September to December 2026. To be eligible to participate, applicants must be on staff at or affiliated with an organization that is a dues-paying member of NLIHC.
If you would like to become a dues-paying member of NLIHC, you can do so by visiting the link provided here.
The application deadline is Friday, July 3, at 5:00 pm ET, and fellows will be selected and notified by 5:00 pm ET on Monday, August 3.
Please find the link to the application here.
NLIHC will host two, one-hour info sessions to provide basic information on the program on June 16 and June 18, each from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET. Please use the following registration links to register for the respective info sessions:
- June 16, 2026 – 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET: Register here
- June 18, 2026 – 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET: Register here
For any questions, please reach out to NLIHC’s Manager of Training and Innovation, Billy Cerullo, at [email protected].