{"id":154,"date":"2013-02-20T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:09:11","slug":"beyond-uvm-oxfam-looking-for-change-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/02\/20\/beyond-uvm-oxfam-looking-for-change-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"BEYOND UVM: Oxfam looking for CHANGE-makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Oxfam is looking for CHANGE-makers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oxfam America is accepting applications for its 14<sup>th<\/sup> annual CHANGE Initiative, its national student organizing and advocacy program.\u00a0 CHANGE offers rising sophomores and juniors at US-based colleges the opportunity to become effective agents for social change.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">CHANGE Leaders:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have access to expert skills based training, resources, materials and year-round support from Oxfam staff;<\/li>\n<li>Establish connections and share knowledge with college students from the US and beyond;<\/li>\n<li>Develop confidence and lifelong skills to create positive, lasting social change, and<\/li>\n<li>Are part of an active and growing, global network of peers and alumni working on justice issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applications are due on <b>April 1, 2013<\/b>. \u00a0Accepted students participate in a week-long training in Boston from July 20-26, 2013, which is organized and paid for by Oxfam.\u00a0 Students must agree to join or form an Oxfam Club and implement an Oxfam campaign on campus during the 2013-14 academic year, as well as communicate regularly with Oxfam staff about their work.<\/p>\n<p>Please share this information in departmental newsletters or listservs, and encourage students you know to apply.\u00a0 Watch our CHANGE video at: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.oxfamamerica.org\/change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfamamerica.org\/change\" target=\"5VRlFZum_QlRJTrwB2-CjVA\">http:\/\/www.oxfamamerica.org\/change<\/a>.<\/span> If you have any questions please call 1-800-77-OXFAM ext. 9415 or email CHANGE@oxfamamerica.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam is looking for CHANGE-makers Oxfam America is accepting applications for its 14th annual CHANGE Initiative, its national student organizing and advocacy program.\u00a0 CHANGE offers rising sophomores and juniors at US-based colleges the opportunity to become effective agents for social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/02\/20\/beyond-uvm-oxfam-looking-for-change-makers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46474,46462,46459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-uvm","category-east-coast","category-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}