Voting is your super power! Easy and impactful, our ambassador fellowship will look good on your resume and/or college applications.
Interested in earning money while serving your community? Become a Youth Voting Ambassador with Atlanta GLOW for the Georgia 2024 election season! Our Youth Voting Ambassador Fellowship is designed to enliven your interest in the civic engagement process and help you learn your rights and responsibilities as a citizen. This program will also provide hands on experience and training on how to organize and implement voter activities to increase the participation of young people in the electoral process.
What is a Youth Voting Ambassador?
As a Youth Voting Ambassador, you will help Atlanta GLOW to encourage more of your friends, family and peers to get-out-the-vote (GOTV) and get involved in the Georgia 2024 election season. Ambassadors will receive a voter registration training and mobilization toolkit; communications and social media tools; event materials and posters; and access to information and resources to deploy relational organizing tactics. Ambassadors will also be granted access to a free relational organizing app for their mobile phones, through which they will build relationships with friends, family and classmates living in Georgia to pledge and vote in the Georgia 2024 election season.
What does it take to become a Youth Voting Ambassador?
- Must identify as a young woman and be between 18-25 years old, a Georgia resident and a U.S. citizen.
- Must be committed to the idea that every vote counts.
- Must abide by our code of conduct as outlined in our voter registration training and mobilization toolkit.
- Cannot have a familial relationship with any candidate on the ballot.
- Must refrain from using hateful language, symbols and other inappropriate speech when participating in online sharing, GOTV outreach events and discussions.
- Must be willing to remain nonpartisan and NOT express any political opinions while serving in the ambassador capacity (you cannot endorse a specific candidate on any Youth Ambassador posts).
What are the hours and duration?
Ambassadors are expected to dedicate a minimum number of hours based on the tier they sign up for. Duties include reaching out to personal friends, family, college peers, church members and social media networks to encourage voting in the Georgia 2024 election season. If there is a Georgia runoff election, additional hours and earnings may be granted if interested in continuing the ambassadorship.
Is there any compensation?
The ambassador position is an elevated volunteer position, not a job; however, those who meet or exceed goals will receive a stipend, based on the fellowship tier they sign up for. Stipends will be paid out post-election and are contingent upon substantial demonstration of progress met (e.g., regular social media postings, successful recruitment of voter pledges, proof of GOTV outreach event facilitation). If there is a Georgia runoff election, additional hours and earnings may be granted if interested in continuing the ambassadorship.
What are the fellowship tiers?
Social Butterfly (Stipend - TBD)
- Post online on your social media at least twice and tag @AtlantaGLOW in all posts.
- Recruit at least 15 distinct voter pledges for the Georgia 2024 election by reaching out to family and friends, and peers via text or email.
- Deadline: TBD; Required Weekly Hours: TBD
Social Trendsetter (Stipend - TBD)
- Post online on your social media at least twice and tag @AtlantaGLOW in all posts.
- Recruit at least 25 distinct voter pledges for the Georgia 2024 election by reaching out to family and friends, and peers via text or email.
- Create a creative 2-5 minute video around the importance of getting young people out to vote. We will showcase these on the Atlanta GLOW social media channels. The format can be an interview with other youth, a skit/dramatization, poem, or a simple open monologue.
- Deadline: TBD; Required Weekly Hours: TBD
Social Changemaker (Stipend - TBD)
- Post online on your social media at least twice and tag @AtlantaGLOW in all posts.
- Plan and host a "Get Georgia to the Polls. Period." GOTV outreach event on your school campus, at church, work, or in your community handing out free menstrual hygiene kits themed in Atlanta GLOW's GOTV campaign theme (see image at the bottom of this email). (The 100 menstrual hygiene kits, a GOTV poster and tablecloth will be provided by Atlanta GLOW... items must be picked up from our office in Marietta.)
- Deadline: TBD; Required Weekly Hours: TBD
What is the deadline to apply?
Inquiries will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. However, the sooner you sign up, the sooner you can begin earning a stipend!
Where do I begin?
- Make sure you are registered to vote!
- Upon signing up and receiving the welcome email, read through all of our toolkit resources, and email ashlie@atlantaglow.org with any questions.
- Follow Atlanta GLOW on all social media - Facebook: @AtlantaGLOW; Instagram: @AtlantaGLOW; and Twitter: @AtlantaGLOW.
- Download/save all our voter engagement campaign graphics and content from Google Drive to be posted on social media leading up to the election.
- Save/bookmark our voter registration status, pledge and absentee ballot request links.
- Get started with your recruitment goals and GOTV outreach event planning.
