Organizational Applications Open: Host a PHI CivicSpark Fellow

PHI’s CivicSpark is accepting applications for organizational partners who are interested in hosting CivicSpark fellows beginning in January 2025.

CivicSpark places highly motivated emerging leaders with local organizations for an 11-month term to support research, planning, and implementation projects for community resilience. CivicSpark staff work with project partners to coordinate a positive fellowship experience. Site Supervisors provide direct project supervision of Fellows, with support from CivicSpark Regional Coordinators and other program staff.

The application deadline for partners is November 8, 2024. 

CivicSpark was recently awarded AmeriCorps National Direct grant to support the program’s expansion, with plans to place 100 additional government agencies and nonprofit organizations to host CivicSpark Fellows and serve additional communities in our existing states and new areas across the country beginning in January 2025.

The program’s initial plans for expansion include bringing CivicSpark to regions disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change and natural disasters to serve communities in at least 12 additional states across the West, Pacific Northwest, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, with additional geographic expansion likely in years to come. New states targeted for January 2025 are Arizona, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. 

Beyond the program’s basic requirements, PHI’s CivicSpark is looking for project partners with a commitment to Fellows’ growth and development through direct project oversight, a dedicated Fellow supervisor, and a supportive professional environment.

Projects must support local community resilience needs such as climate change adaptation or mitigation, affordable housing, energy efficiency, water management or policy, sustainable mobility, or other related issues. Beyond the basic criteria, our program is looking for tangible and impactful resilience projects with a:

• Clear, suitable scope of work
• Commitment to implementation
• Strong connection to public agencies’ needs

Partner eligibility includes:

• Public agencies (local, county or regional governments), state agencies, Tribes, and non-profit organizations can contract directly to host CivicSpark Fellows
• Fellows cannot be placed at for-profit organizations
• Fellows must implement projects or initiatives with a clear scope of work designed to build organizational capacity on a community resilience issue
• Partners must agree to follow all AmeriCorps requirements

Learn more:

Watch CivicSpark’s “WA/CO/New States Three Quarter Timeline Info Session” to learn more about the application process and timeline, partner fees, costs and fellow stipends, and more.