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Become a Changemaker Captain!
Learn about our Captain program and apply today!
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
As a volunteer changemaker captain, you will inspire your community to take on leadership roles to end the abuse of animals raised for food.
You are ready to motivate others, foster long-term relationships, and support other changemakers in effective grassroots animal advocacy.
Speak with your field organizer to see if this role is right for you. This is a six-month-minimum volunteer role, with a weekly time commitment of around 4 hours per week / 15-20 hours per month.
The following sections have more information.
Benefits
- Build a community of activists in your area and empower them to take on leadership roles.
- Gain leadership and grassroots activism experience.
- Receive one-on-one training, mentorship, and personal goal development with a THL organizing staff member.
- Learn fundamental relational organizing skills.
- Make an impact for animals who are suffering the worst abuses.
- Be the first to know campaign updates, news, and opportunities within the movement.
- Gain access to resources, trainings and toolkits on our Changemaker Community Center.
- Enhance writing and meeting facilitation skills.
- Network with changemakers and THL staff members, amongst other animal rights professionals.
- Connect with a nationwide team of Captains on exclusive training calls.
Core Responsibilities
Stay in communication with your Field Organizer
- Through regular meetings (usually virtual) to strategize and learn and through asynchronous communication like email or text.
Commit to the time needed to build a team. This commitment generally requires around 4 hours per week / 15-20 hours per month. This is the time it takes to support a local team and build power against the massive animal agriculture industry. Here is a guide for how those hours break down:
- 4-5 hrs/month meeting with Field Organizer (weekly meeting)
- 2-3 hrs/month creating local strategy, hosting team meetings (team meetings should happen at least once per month)
- 5-6 hrs/month doing recruitment/outreach/connecting with team members
- 3-4 hrs/month hosting corporate campaign events (protests, action meetups, and others based on the strategy for our current campaign targets)
- 1-2 hrs/month meeting with other local groups (attend events, have 1:1s with leaders of other groups)
Identify, recruit, and lead individuals in your area to grow a local team of changemakers, with the support of your THL Field Organizer.
- Host a monthly meeting with your team leaders to strategize and plan actions.
- This includes using the relational organizing skills you'll learn as a captain to have 1:1 conversations with people in your community.
Empower others to take on leadership roles within the community.
- Organize activities and events (or recruit other volunteers to do so) to support national and local campaigns.
- Consistently take campaign actions*and encourage others to do the same.
- Captains should complete digital actions every week on the Fast Action Network Platform, and on-the-ground actions in collaboration with your field organizer.