Sacramento Central Delegation Election Year Scholarship
What is it?
A way for you to earn money, learn about the political process, and engage in your community.
Who is eligible?
All Sacramento Central Delegates who have completed the Y’s required financial aid documents.
How do I participate?
1.) Find a candidate, political party, interest group, or ballot measure that interests you. Volunteer to work on its campaign for a minimum of 10 hours between now and Election Day on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 (that’s about 5 weeks from now).
2.) On Election Day, take a photo of yourself visiting your local polling place – yes, even if you can’t vote, you can still take time to figure out where you’ll be voting in a few years.
3.) Finally, write a 2 page paper (that’s only about 500 words) on your volunteer experience. What did you do? What did you learn? What surprised you? How did your candidate or cause do on Election Day?
What do I get?
You get $50 credited to your program costs.
Can you explain this some more?
Sure, here’s the deal: It’s an election year and you’ve chosen to participate in a model legislature and court program, so we’re hoping you’ll find the elections more interesting than you might’ve before. We hope you watch a least a little news and read a newspaper each day and know the basics of who is running for which office, what groups are supporting what candidates and what causes, and what proposals are before voters in November.
We don’t care what campaign you volunteer for: Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, your local nominee for School Board, your local Assembly nominee (Democrat or Republican), or a third party that is working on behalf of a candidate or cause (for example, if a labor union is making calls on behalf of a candidate for State Senate). There is some group or some person you can learn about and care about, go volunteer to help ensure victory.
You must volunteer for at least 10 hours on the campaign of your choosing. To validate your time, have a campaign manager or some in-charge person sign-off on your time and provide and email address and phone number at which we can reach them.
What kind of work to campaign volunteers do? All sorts – walk precincts, make telephone calls, stuff envelopes, make copies, pour coffee, clean the campaign headquarters, assembly yard signs, answer phones, there’s always something to do.
I don’t have any idea who to work for, can you give me some ideas?
Of course!
I don’t need the scholarship money, but I’d like to participate – can money go to the Delegation fund?
Again, of course! And great idea.
