The Emory Community Building and Social Change Fellows Experience

Community Building Fellows enjoy an exciting year of classes, workshops, site visits, work, social activities, and meetings with a variety of community builders from the business, nonprofit, government, and faith sectors. Their Fellowship experience looks like this:

Fall Semester

• Take POLS/SOC/CBSC 370A Community Building and Social Change
• Apply to become a Community Building Fellow
• Receive and accept invitation to become a Community Building Fellow

Spring Semester

• Fellows Welcome Weekend Retreat (January)
• Take POLS/SOC/CBSC 370BWR Planning and Evaluating Community-Based Initiatives
• Evaluate and select collaborative community building projects
• Meet community partners
• Skills building labs
• Prepare workplan for summer projects

Summer

• Work for 12 weeks on collaborative community building projects
• Take POLS/SOC/CBSC 370C Practicum in Community Building and Social Change
• Weekly Wednesday evening dinners
• Site visit to community building projects in another city
• Site visits to local community building projects
• Final reports and all deliverables due
• Presentation of project results to Atlanta community leaders