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  * Applications due February 4, 2011  apply online today at http://www.greencorps.org** Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.

In Green Corps year-long paid program, youll get intensive training in the skills youll need to make a difference in the world. Youll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems global warming, deforestation, water pollution and many others with groups such as Sierra Club and Greenpeace. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, well help you find a career with one of the nations leading environmental and social change groups. 

For more information, read below or visit our web site: 
www.greencorps.org.

In your year with Green Corps: 
Youll get great training with some of the most experienced organizers in the field: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people such as Adam Ruben, political director of MoveOn.org, and Bill McKibben, author and organizer of the350.org rallies for climate action. 

Youll get amazing experience working on environmental issues across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, Greenpeace and Environment America in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and dozens of other places in between. 

Youll have a real impact on some of the biggest environmental problems were facing today: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helpedkeep the Arctic safe from drilling, that led to new laws that support clean, renewable energy, that convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans and much, much more

Youll even get paid: Green Corps Organizers earn a salary of $23,750. Organizers also have a chance to opt into our health care program with a pre-tax monthly salary deferral. We offer paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation and a student loan repayment program for those who qualify. 

And when you graduate from the program, 
youll be ready for what comes next: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment. 

In the next few months, well invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2011-2012. Were looking for people who are 
serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul

If you think youre one of those people, visit 
http://www.greencorps.org/findoutmore to submit your application to join the 2011-2012 class of Green Corps Field School for Environmental Organizing. 

Green Corps year-long program begins in August 2011 with Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Candidates must be willing to relocate. 

For more information, visit 
www.greencorps.org or contact Jeff Gang, Green Corps Field Organizer, (978) 540-0022 or  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript