Deadline: February 28, 2025
Applications for the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) 2025-2026 are now open. The Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) is a program geared toward engaged student leaders throughout the region. Nominations are accepted each spring for the following academic year. Each of TMA’s member presidents is invited to nominate one student from their campus for the Fellowship.
Participation in the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship will provide students from across the region high impact opportunities to develop their leadership skills and understanding of civic and community engagement so that they may better serve as leaders in their communities and collectively create solutions to the region’s most urgent problems. This fellowship is a key avenue to develop student leaders who are engaged global citizens, actively contributing to the creation of equitable, healthy, sustainable, and socially just communities.
In addition to receiving pre-fellowship summer advising and a certificate of completion and graduation cord at the conclusion of the program, the 2025-2026 fellowship will consist of:
- Nine virtual monthly gatherings, including sessions with regional and national experts focused on issues related to society, the economy, the environment, and governance, as well as leadership development, sustainable change making, and advancing equity through lifelong civic and community engagement in the Mid-Atlantic region;
- An in-person end-of-year retreat hosted by TMA in either Baltimore or DC;
- Networking and relationship building as part of a regional cohort of young and engaged leaders;
- Advising and mentoring by TMA staff, institutional representatives, and partner organizations;
- A final capstone project (designed with the assistance of TMA staff);
- Additional workshops, professional development experiences, and recognition!
Benefits
There is no monetary award associated with the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship. It is an experiential based program focused on developing Fellows’ understandings of leadership and their capacity to contribute toward positive social change.
Civic Fellows will receive:
- Individualized pre-fellowship summer advising by TMA staff;
- Recognition through TMA website and media;
- Opportunities to serve as student leaders and mentors with TMA after the close of the Fellowship year;
- Information about post-fellowship leadership and skills-based development opportunities and individualized career and national service program communications, including about TMA’s AmeriCorps VISTA Program;
- Certificate of completion and TMACF graduation cord;
- Letters of recommendation on TMA letterhead;
- And more!
Eligibility
- The nominee must be enrolled at a Transform mid-Atlantic member institution during the Spring 2025 semester, with one or more full years of study remaining at the institution at the time of nomination (the nominee must be enrolled for the 2025-2026 year);
- The student must be nominated by the president of their institution;
- For institutions with both undergraduate and graduate programs, presidents are encouraged to recommend the most deserving student, with preference given to undergraduates;
- Nominees from institutions that exclusively confer associate’s degrees should eother have one year of academic studies remaining at their institution or plans to transfer to a 4-year institution in MD, DC, DE, WV, or Northern VA.
Application
The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, February 28, 2025 by the close of business.
For more information, visit Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship.
