2025 Freedom School Action Camp Volunteer with VSPN

✨2025 Freedom Schools Action Camp Volunteer Form ✨

Seed. Shape. Shift.

The Virginia Student Power Network is a Black-led, youth-led, queer-led abolitionist organization at the forefront of transformative change. For the past 12 years, our organization has served a crucial role in advancing progressive values, shifting conditions, and generating new opportunities for liberation.

Our network of young people is committed to ending policing, prisons, surveillance, and militarism. We fight for our future, collective liberation, in which all communities break free from policing and the carceral state and everyone has the skills necessary to make sense of the world – and where young people, students, and workers have decision-making power, self-determination, and autonomy within their lives.

Please fill out this form by Wednesday April 30, 2025 at 11:59pm EST to indicate your interest in volunteering this summer. If you have any questions, please reach out to a VSPN staff team member or email vastudentpower@gmail.com

To read the full volunteer role description, visit https://bit.ly/vspn-fsac-about-volunteers
Apply to Volunteer with VSPN Freedom School Action Camp now ⬇️

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW🔍

VSPN is excited to onboard 10-15 volunteer organizers to help put on the latest iteration of our summer organizing program. Volunteers will work closely with the VSPN Staff team to execute a 12-week-long political organizing camp.
What is FSAC?

Our Freedom School Action Camp (FSAC) is a summer-long, youth organizing cohort focused on transformative leadership development.
Our Freedom School Action Camp (FSAC) is a summer-long, youth organizing cohort focused on transformative leadership development. We accomplish this in five major ways:

🏕️ Political education training sessions
🏕️ Campaign organizing
🏕️ Base building
🏕️ (Peer-to-peer) Mentorship
🏕️ Seminars
During this training camp, volunteers will engage dozens of young people – ages 18 to 35 – organizing on, or around, university campuses in Virginia. This program will be primarily virtual, with some opportunities for in-person engagement.

NOTE: VSPN remains committed to COVID-informed practices and will require high-quality masking, testing, and contact tracing for any in-person gatherings.
Please indicate you've read and acknowledge the program description*

Yes, I have read this and acknowledge the program description.

WHO YOU ARE😊

You are the right person for this role if you meet the following criteria:
☑️ A current student or youth-leader who is…
- Currently enrolled in a university or college in Virginia and
- Has been through VSPN’s 2024 FSAC program or
☑️ A VSPN Legacy Member, meaning someone who…

- Graduated or is no longer attending, school and is a

- Former Freedom Schools Fellow,

- Former Summer Organizing fellow,

- Former Vote Fellow,

- Former VSPN Staff,

- VSPN Alum,

- Previously Active Member or
💫 A VSPN partner, meaning someone who…

- Worked, or works, in a coalition with VSPN

- Collaborated with VSPN staff team on programming
I have read the above information and I am eligible to volunteer this summer

YesUnsure

I fit one or more of these descriptors and am eligible to volunteer with VSPN this summer...
Please select all that apply*

Role Descriptions:

We need 10-15 volunteer organizers to contribute no more than 20 hours of their time per month, to collaborate with the VSPN staff team these areas roles may overlap):
Role Descriptions:

Regional Coordinators – paid (up to $500)

Support the FSAC cohort by:
- Providing mentorship to campers in collaboration with VSPN staff
- Hosting 1:1s, group check-ins, and follow-ups
- Sharing your experiences as a student/youth organizer
- Helping plan regional events over the summer
- Attending in-person gathering in June
Facilitation – unpaid
Help lead trainings by:
- Giving feedback on training materials
- Joining prep meetings
- Co-facilitating trainings with VSPN staff and volunteers
- Assisting with program design as needed
Logistics + Operations – unpaid
Handle event and communication tasks, including:
- Managing regular camper email updates
- Planning the June in-person event (i.e. volunteer coordination, food, COVID safety, printing, transportation, etc.).
- Assisting with POD matching.
- COVID-Safety Compliance (i.e. help source and distro PPE, and keep track of contact tracing)
Communications – unpaid

Support storytelling and media creation by:
- Collaborating on social media posts, newsletters, and creative content
- Documenting trainings through recap posts, reels, and testimonials
- Assisting with broader VSPN communications projects
Fundraising – unpaid
Help achieve FSAC’s fundraising goals by:
- Assisting with the planning + execution of a grassroots fundraising campaign
- Organizing smaller fundraising events to support the grassroots fundraising campaign
- Engaging campers in fundraising efforts
- Researching relevant grant opportunities for the organization
Please indicate that you have reviewed the volunteer role descriptions*

I have reviewed the role descriptions

Which roles are you most interested in?

Please indicate the three roles you're most interested in.
Top choice*
You are most excited to join us in this capacity!
Second choice*
If we are not able to place you in your top choice, you'd be happy to help us here!
Third choice*
If we are not able to place you in your second choice, you're open to being flexible and supporting us with this role

Camp Commitments

What you are committing to when you join us for FSAC.
Are you able to commit to (no more than) 20 hours a month during the course of the program?*

Yes, I can commit to volunteering up to 20 hours a month this summerNo, I cannot commit to volunteering up to 20 hours a month this summerUnsure how much time I can volunteer
We plan to host an in-person training in June in Ashland, Virginia (This is a tentative timeline. We are still working on logistics for this, and certain aspects are subject to change). Can you attend an the in-person training?*

YesNoMaybe
During the in-person training, we will adhere to COVID safety practices, including requiring N95 masking, outdoor/distanced meals, and testing negative prior to arrival. By volunteering with VSPN you agree to comply with our COVID-informed practice. (Masks and tests can be provided)*

Yes, I agree to comply to VSPN's COVID-informed practiceNo, I do not agree to comply to VSPN's COVID-informed practice
Do you have any questions/concerns regarding any of the camp commitments?
(Note: You can record your responses using the tool below. Please remember to indicate which question you're responding to in your voice message!)

Skill Sharing + Fireside Discussions

We plan to have volunteer and camper-facilitated skill share spaces known as "fireside discussions" during the course of the summer.
Would you be interested in facilitating a Fireside Discussion?*

YesNoMaybe - I need more information
Are there specific skills you have that you're excited to share with the cohort?
(Note: You can record your responses using the tool below. Please remember to indicate which question you're responding to in your voice message!)

Apply to Volunteer with VSPN Freedom School Action Camp now ⬇️

PROGRAM OVERVIEW🔍

What is FSAC?

WHO YOU ARE😊

I fit one or more of these descriptors and am eligible to volunteer with VSPN this summer...

Background

Role Descriptions:

Which roles are you most interested in?

Volunteer Crew

Camp Commitments

Skill Sharing + Fireside Discussions

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