CTWO’s Mission is to help build and sustain a thriving racial justice movement led by communities of color.
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CTWO is excited to celebrate 40 years of impact and cultivated leadership development through our flagship Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP), as we launch our recruitment for host sites and participants for Summer 2025!
The Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP), established in 1985, is a paid summer intensive training program that provides Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other people of color with the opportunity to develop skills and experience in grassroots organizing. For 40 years, MAAP has been one of the movement’s flagship organizer training programs for people of color, bringing motivated young activists together from all over the country to teach them the science and art of organizing communities around their most salient issues.
The Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) is an 9 week paid program that offers a unique opportunity for aspiring organizers to learn the nuts and bolts of organizing and what it means to organize through a racial justice lens and build power that shifts the conditions in our communities. This entry-level program offers hands-on organizing experience through fieldwork, participating in campaign actions, movement history, and deep skill-building workshops. Program dates this year will be June 1st – July 30, 2025.
We are excited to to return to the classic MAAP structure this year and will be taking participants from all over the country who will be placed in organizations around the country. Our 2-day Organizing 101 Bootcamp is a prerequisite for MAAP–for more information and to sign up for a training either in-person or virtually, visit our Organizing 101 program page here. Must complete the prerequisite by April 2025.
Is your organization looking to…
Every year, CTWO looks for organizations with specific strengths and innovative practices that can help with the development of apprentices. Here are several key items the selection committee will be looking for in host organizations. Please check all that apply to your organization. Based on CTWO’s strategies and goals, we give priority to host sites that fit the following criteria.
Apply to be a host site by April 1, 2025:
The program will be held from June 1st, 2025 to July 30th, 2025. Participants are required to complete a Organizing 101 training and participate in the whole program. The program will begin with a week-long orientation followed by a field placement for the remaining 7 weeks. Participants are provided with $600 per week stipend and a travel allowance. The deadline for MAAP 2025 is Tuesday, April 1st.
Sign up for an info session below:
Apply to be a MAAPer below:
MAAP is a pioneer national organizer training program, training young activists of color in the skills needed to run campaigns that address deep-rooted causes of racial injustice affecting people of color across the country.
As a nationally renowned program, MAAP has served to build a vibrant network of activists of color, strengthening movements and driving social justice campaigns. MAAP is an 8 week long paid intensive training program that runs during the summer.
CTWO’s Mission is to help build and sustain a thriving racial justice movement led by communities of color.