TOGETHER, WE CAN ACHIEVE MORE.

Policy Fellows perform a range of policy research, policy writing, and formal writing tasks. They are involved with the development and creation of policy in team environments; do background database research on existing policies, existing legislation, and the multifaceted factors influencing policy execution.  Fellows work virtually 20 hours per week for 12 months.  If onboarded, they will receive  stipends for their participation.  

We are committed to empowering a growing number of communities to use data to improve a range of urgent reforms: 

• expanding health insurance coverage and other pay models in rural areas; 
• closing gaps in S.T.E.M. educational opportunities (beginning in youth); removing obstacles to the modernization of education and training; and access to high-speed internet (broadband).   
• boosting economic and wealth building opportunities like entrepreneurship, home ownership and financial health;
• bettering neighborhoods into inviting high-tech and investment hubs, physically compacted, technically wired, and transit-accessible;  while generating sustainable employment and reinvigorating their regions.
• reduction of food desserts; access to water and sanitation and comprehensive social services; and 
• reducing discrimination in employment, health care, policing, public safety and urban planning. 

Block Opportunity Fellows are curators of their blocks, neighborhoods, and cities’ assets and systemic issues holding them back from economic mobility.  They will work with The Block Opportunity Learning Hubs and advocates of The “We The People” Museum. These fellows will help with digital outreach (social media, website), peer-to-peer mentorship, and community engagement. Fellows should have a strong sense of community and desire to help others in order  to make high-impact in their communities. They will receive project-based stipends for 12 months.

If you are working  in the intersection of economics and algorithms, we’d love to hear from you.  Fellows connect Project B.E.M.’s theoretical research with the human experience in technology, business, and society.   Fellows work virtually 20 hours per week for 12 months.  If onboarded, they will receive  stipends for their participation.