. These partnerships have been developed in advance. Other partnerships may be added in the coming weeks. Be sure to check back before submitting your application. If you have an existing relationship with a different organization, you can request to work with that organization instead.
​The Fellowship will subsidize or provide all transportation to do this community work.

For more descriptions on QSR Fellowship partners, please go to: 

Chinese Progressive Association
Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people

Potential Work: Supporting Renter protection ballot initiatives; Eviction defense, Base-building
Location: San Francisco
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese a plus.

Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), Outlet Program for LGBTQ+ Youth

ACS provides affordable and accessible counseling services to youth ages 10-25. The Outlet Program, founded in 1997, empowers Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ+) youth and builds safe and accepting communities through support, education, and advocacy. Outlet envisions a world that embraces, empowers, and celebrates LGBTQ+ youth. Striving for social justice and engaging youth in achieving freedom, fairness, and equality for all are the core elements of the program.Through peer support groups, counseling services, and education, Outlet strives to support the emotional, physical, and social development of queer youth as whole individuals.  Experience working specifically with the transgender community is a plus.
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Potential Work:
The Outlet intern will be responsible for co-facilitating Outlet peer support groups, planning workshops, activities, and curriculum pieces for drop-in hours, supporting outreach efforts, maintaining social media platforms, and developing a focus project (determined at beginning of internship with intern participation).
Potential Focus Projects:
  1. Develop programming for gender diverse youth ages 10-12 and their families, including collaboration with existing community providers serving this demographic.
  2. Continue developing programming for LGBTQ+ youth of color and their families, including community outreach and engagement.
Location: Redwood City and Mountain View 
Days/Times: ​Monday-Friday/11am-7 p.m. flexible 
Language Skills: Bilingual Spanish speakers preferred 

Youth Law Academy of Centro Legal de la Raza

Centro Legal de la Raza is a direct legal services provider located in the historically Latino Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland since 1969. Centro Legal's legal services are in immigrant rights, worker's rights, and tenant's rights. As a placement site for the Praxis fellowship you would be working with either the Tenant's Rights or Youth Law Academy programs. The tenant's rights program works to help advocate for low income tenants facing wrongful eviction or other problems with their landlord. The Youth Law Academy is a program for Oakland high school youth to help them learn about the field of law and help provide them with academic support and career awareness opportunities. Fellows with an interest in gentrification, or equity in housing, would be great fits for the tenant's rights program. The YLA is seeking fellows interested in the fields of ethnic studies, communications, education, diversity, government, and/or anything pre-law. 
Potential Work:  If selected, you would provide support to your team and help with administrative tasks, communications, and other program support.
Location: Oakland (near Fruitvale BART)
Days/Times: Regular business hours, and some evenings. Flexible depending on availability.
Language Skills: Spanish a plus

Somos Familia

Somos Familia was founded by two moms from the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) with Latino gay and bisexual sons in 2007 to reach out to other families. With an all-volunteer group of different generations we established the following mission and vision

Our mission is to create support and acceptance for Latina/o/x lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning youth and their families.

We envision a world where youth of all sexual orientations, gender expressions and identities are accepted and celebrated by their families and communities.

Potential Work: Collaborate on youth programs, serve as media coordinator, help support events
Location: Oakland
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Bilingual in Spanish a plus

SF Rising

San Francisco Rising is a new grassroots alliance that has united to make lasting change in San Francisco. Our members represent the rising majority of the city  – low income and working class communities of color – who contribute to the wealth and unique beauty of this city but have not benefited from its prosperity. We have a long-term vision for the city and we are in it, together, for the long run.  We are uniting African American, Latino, Chinese and Filipino communities and leaders from across the city to create a new, community-based political infrastructure capable of running sophisticated electoral operations each election cycle, and winning.

Potential Work: Any incoming interns will likely participate in mass mobilizing efforts related to the College For All Campaign, a statewide effort to tax the wealthy and make college free again in CA.
Location: San Francisco
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Bilingual a plus

Black Organizing Project 

Organization Info: The Black Organizing Project (BOP) is a Black member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community-building in Oakland, California. BOP was founded in response to the need for more organizing infrastructure in Black communities and the critical need to create safe Black spaces. Since our founding, BOP has engaged and activated thousands of community members through leadership development, political education and community building.   In 2011, our membership decided to launch our first and continued campaign, Bettering Our School System (BOSS). Our BOSS campaign was formed as a response to the criminalization, mass incarceration and murder by police of Black and Brown boys and men. As the city was becoming rapidly gentrified, tactics such as gang injunctions and police violence were being used to pave the way for a demographic change. The murder of a young man in 2011 by school police on campus, ignited our members to take on the issue of police in schools. BOSS is redirecting the school to prison pipeline toward investments in approaches that provide a supportive environment for learning, future success, safety and well-being of students. We believe that those most impacted by racism and poverty have to put their own issues on the table and demand changes that provide immediate relief and improvement while building toward long-term structural change.
​Potential Work: 
Intern work for the Black Organizing Project can include , but not be limited to: 
Community Outreach ; tabling, door knocking , street outreach , phone banking, one on ones  
Office Upkeep: Supporting with office work, mailings, filing, printing/cutting flyers
Strategy Support:  Data Desegregation, research, 
Communications: Social Media Support, note taking at meetings, photography , videography , research , 
Program Support: This Summer BOP will be hosting 2 youth internship programs , we would likely need support with running these programs 
Location: Oakland 
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: English 
SF LGBT CENTER

The SF LGBT Center is not just the bright purple building that catches your eye at 1800 Market street, it is a focal point for the LGBT community of San Fransisco, where individuals who needs resources, support, or a safe spaces to gather, can find comfort and celebration.  The Center is a nexus for the LGBT community and allies to gather, organize, and celebrate.  The Center is sought out as a collective leaders and partner, leveraging the work of community-based organizations through active engagement with over 70 local organizations.  Direct programming is designed to serve low-income community members who are among those most in need, including youth, job seekers, children and families, city newcomers, women, and the transgender community. 
AYPAL

AYPAL: Building API Community Power has been developing youth leadership in Oakland for the past 20 years. Our focus is power building with underrepresented Asian American youth from immigrant and refugee families. AYPAL is in year 3 of a multi-year #WeHere campaign, focused on increasing the visibility of underrepresented communities through policies such as disaggregated data, and also challenging displacement and gentrification in Oakland with a resilience based organizing approach. Our method of organizing is "Agitate, Educate, Organize" through youth led political education workshops, and cultural arts activism. 

​Potential Work: Open to projects that students are interested in. 

Location: Oakland 
Days/Times: TBD​
Language Skills: Preferences given to students bilingual in Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.
​QWOCMAP
QWOCMAP uses film to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truths of inequality, and build community around art and activism. We create, exhibit, and distribute high impact films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women of color (cisgender & transgender), Two Spirit, and gender nonbinary and transgender, people of color (of any orientation), and address the intersecting social justice issues that concern multiple marginalized communities.
 
QWOCMAP changes who makes films, which changes film itself.
 
Just as the leadership of cisgender queer women of color and transgender women of color forms the foundation of intersectional social justice movements across the globe, QWOCMAP’s vision nurtures LBTQIA filmmakers of color as artist-activist leaders whose films spark awareness, fire engagement, and galvanize collective action.
 
THE OPPORTUNITY
QWOCMAP is looking for kind, diligent people with a sense of humor who are willing to work collaboratively. This is an opportunity to make meaningful contributions to QWOCMAP’s growth and community. We’re looking for people who are willing to work for social justice and liberation inside themselves and in the world. Most of all, we are looking for love of learning, willingness to be accountable, and enthusiasm. Our program trains interns and fellows to develop their leadership, expand their political education, and develop skills in fundraising, communications, event production, and project management. If you’re excited about these possibilities, QWOCMAP is the right place for you!
 
Potential Work
You will co-create your own focus project based on your passions, what you want to learn, and QWOCMAP’s programs and needs. This could include: 
*  a communications campaign including text, graphics, photography, and video, that explores safety for LBTQ people of color
*  a community-centric fundraising strategy that engages small people of color and LGBTQ businesses
* political education guides to accompany QWOCMAP films that explore sexual violence, human migration, or the racialization of space & the white spatial imaginary
* organizing community engagement that connects logistical decisions to political values that include disability justice and accessibility 
 
At QWOCMAP value transparency and direct communication, and care deeply about your needs and points of access in relation to the ways in which we operate here at QWOCMAP.  We want to make sure you are getting as much as you possibly can out of an internship with us – that we are learning from each other, and that you are given the agency you deserve, because as queer women, trans, and gender nonconforming people of color, we all want and need to utilize our capacities to lead, to resist, to survive, and to thrive.
 
Location: QWOCMAP’s new office in the San Francisco Presidio
Days/Times: ​Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm (some evenings and weekends) 
​Language Skills: Strong communication skills
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Qulture Collective

Our mission is to provide a central, devoted space for Queer/ LGBTQIA+ folks to network, cultivate creativity, and develop and accomplish entrepreneurial goals. We do this by cultivating a space and experiences that serve the Queer/LGBTQIA+ and allied community with a focus on building BIPOC visibility.

Potential Work: The project the Praxis student would be working on will likely involve creating space, content, and resources around the trans of color community.

Location: Oakland
Days/Times: TBA
Language Skills: ​N/A 

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Not In Our Town
​Not In Our Town (NIOT) is a movement to stop hate, counter bullying, and build safe, inclusive communities. NIOT’s goal is to foster thriving, diverse, and equitable communities where all residents feel safe, accepted, and encouraged to participate in public life. NIOT programs and proven strategies—comprised of grassroots film screenings, town hall meetings, coalition building, creation and distribution of organizing tools, fostering collaboration across key institutions, and evaluating impact—inspire and sustain broad and diverse community-based movements. NIOT currently serves a national network of 140 communities that are standing against hate and inequity and working to bridge differences to advance inclusion. Storytelling and media are central to NIOT’s mission to build awareness about the dangers of bigotry and present inspiring models for action.    

Potential Work: 
Fellows will create media and online materials, help convene events, engage with local activists, students and leaders working to stop hate and build inclusion.  This engagement will include collaboration with Bay Area leaders on United Against Hate Week activities in 2019. 
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Bilingual a plus
Some work required in our Oakland Office
If you have additional questions or would like more information, please contact the Graduate Fellow in Social Justice and Community Engagement Jessica Stovall at jstovall@stanford.edu