<div dir="ltr">fyi!<br><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Catherine Bracy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bracy@codeforamerica.org">bracy@codeforamerica.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:29 PM<br>Subject: [cfabrigade] Fwd: We Launched! Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows...<br>To: "<a href="mailto:fuzz@codeforamerica.org">fuzz@codeforamerica.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:fuzz@codeforamerica.org">fuzz@codeforamerica.org</a>>, brigade <<a href="mailto:brigade@codeforamerica.org">brigade@codeforamerica.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Here's a great opportunity for folks interested in Internet advocacy. I talked with Dave while they were putting the fellowship together and it sounds really exciting. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Catherine Bracy<div>Director of Community Organizing</div><div>Code for America</div><div>@cbracy | <a href="mailto:bracy@codeforamerica.org" target="_blank">bracy@codeforamerica.org</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Steer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daves@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">daves@mozillafoundation.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:06 PM<br>Subject: We Launched! Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows...<br>To: Catherine Bracy <<a href="mailto:bracy@codeforamerica.org" target="_blank">bracy@codeforamerica.org</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Hi Catherine,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Hope all is well. Thanks so much for the guidance over the past few months. I’m excited to let you know that we launched the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows program last week. See the program here: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/advocacy" target="_blank">www.mozilla.org/advocacy</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">We’re accepting applications for 2015 Fellows now, and I am hoping that you can help spread the news to your network — seems like an ideal opportunity for Code for America alumni.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Here is a bit more about the program:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Protecting the Internet</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> -- 2015 Fellows will work on a range of issues -- from net neutrality to privacy to anti-surveillance -- that are core to protecting the free and open web.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Attracting a Diversity of Talent</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> -- Fellows will receive a stipend plus all sorts of living expense add ons. We want to get the best and most diverse pool of talent out there.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Using Tech to Inform the Policy Discussion</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> -- Fellows will serve as ambassadors, mentors, and guides to their nonprofit hosts. They will work in the open helping to better inform the policy discussion throughout civil society and government. </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">The application window closes in December. It would be so helpful to the program — and to building the army to protect the Internet -- if you would let your network know about the Fellowship opportunity. Let me know what you think and, if you can help, I’ll send you messaging (tweets, posts, etc.) to make it easy to spread the news. I’d also love to hear any ideas you have as we shape and build the program for the future.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Thanks so much!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">--Dave</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline">ps: Here is what The Washington Post had to say about the program: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/30/mozilla-just-5-percent-of-computer-science-kids-go-into-nonprofits-were-going-to-change-that/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/30/mozilla-just-5-percent-of-computer-science-kids-go-into-nonprofits-were-going-to-change-that/</a></span></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><div>__________</div><div>Dave Steer</div><div>Director, Advocacy</div><div>Mozilla Foundation</div><div><br></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:davesteer@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">davesteer@mozillafoundation.org</a></div><div>Cell: <a href="tel:415-845-5110" value="+14158455110" target="_blank">415-845-5110</a></div><div>Twitter: @davesteer and @MozillaAdvocacy</div></div><div><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/advocacy" target="_blank">www.mozilla.org/advocacy</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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