WHAT: Kingston Fellowship Frequently Asked Questions

The first step in applying for the Kingston Fellowship is completing the Application Form.

Applicants are welcome to submit additional materials such as references or transcripts, but these are optional.

*The Place Corps team is available to assist in any part of the application process! You can reach us at info@placecorps.org

Following the review of applications, Place Corps will schedule an interview (think of this interview as a friendly conversation). The purpose of this interview is to ensures that our program is the right fit. It also is an opportunity for you to ask any questions you might have about the program.

Accepted applicants will be notified via email and next steps will be shared.

Link to the Application Form can be found HERE.

The Kingston Fellowship is open to young adults, age 18-21, in the Kingston, NY area.

If you do not fit those guidelines, but think you’d be a great fit for the program, send us an email to info@placecorps.org !

The Kingston Fellowship is open to young people ages 18-21.

If you are 17, but will turn 18 during the program year you are eligible to apply.

If you do not fit the age requirement, but think you’d make a great fit for our program, let us know!

Send us an email: info@placecorps.org

It depends - we require all fellows to be 18 by the program graduation. If thats you, you are welcome to apply!

If you feel a calling to attend this fellowship and don’t meet our guidelines, we invite you to send us more info about your interest.

Start the conversation and send us an email at info@placecorps.org :)

YES! Many of the Kingston Fellows have been able to maintain part-time employment while participating fully in our program.

The Kingston Fellowship is 4 days/week, around 20 hours per week, which leaves plenty of time for other jobs or activities! Programming takes place Monday to Thursday from 9:30-4 PM.

Fellows can continue working outside of active learning hours, Friday to Sunday and during evenings.

Place Corps offers a dynamic range of learning and skill-building opportunities. This includes workshops such as: Design+Build, Entrepreneurship, Creative Communications, Photography as Activism, Civic Design, and so much more!

Learn more our our Fellowship Experience HERE.

No!

Place Corps provides unique training that is skill appropriate for beginners as well as folks with experience. Place Corps programming is filled with varying degrees of newness for participants, so we encourage open-mindedness and curiosity from our fellows.

Yes, but a working knowledge of English is necessary because all programming is facilitated in English.

Place Corps utilizes an equitable tiered model to ensure that 100% of accepted applicants are able to attend without financial barriers.

Place Corps is based on a model of trust and reciprocity. We don’t determine what participants contribute financially, we empower and entrust our participants and their families with that decision. We recognize that one price does not fit all.

For example, if a family makes less than $100,000/year they will not be expected to pay tuition. Some fellows are not expected to pay tuition based on their income.

Learn more about our equitable tiers and program costs HERE.

Each Kingston Fellow can receive up to $3,000 per trimester in fellowship grants. This grant is a reflection o fellows’ full participation and commitment to the program and supports financial literacy skills and equips fellows with money to practice real life skills like budgeting, saving, and paying bills.

• Learn more about the award HERE

The Kingston Fellowship includes a monthly stipend as both a learning tool and in acknowledgment of financial barriers that might limit program participation.

Place Corps defines this monthly stipend as a “materials cost” used in our Financial Literacy curriculum. Financial literacy is often taught like a drawing class where students learn about the pen and paper needed to draw, but are not supplied with those materials to practice. Place Corps offers the materials needed to make financial education real!

Learn more about our curriculum HERE.

At this time, Place Corps does not provide housing for participants.

However, Place Corps supports our program participants who are in need of housing in whatever way we can and created a Housing Resource Guide.

Our Housing Resource Guide is found HERE.

Place Corps offers transportation to and from all programming related events, workshops, and field trips.

The Kingston Fellowship begins with the Oikos Residency at the beginning of September 2024, and ends the first ween of June 2025.

The Kingston Fellowship follows the Kingston High School calendar for holidays and breaks. However, the Kingston Fellowship program is divided into Trimesters: Know, Love, and Serve, rather than the typical semester system.

See our full calendar HERE.

Place Corps programming is 4 days/ week, Monday-Thursday, with programming times from 9:30 AM- 4 PM.

View the Kingston Fellowship Calendar HERE.

Every week at Place Corps is a slightly new and unique adventure! Check out a sample Week-at-a-Glance HERE.

Imagine starting the day at Kingston Ceramics creating a personal project, then making homemade lunch together at our homeroom. After lunch, fellows engage in conversation on finance and social justice as part of Entrepreneurial Training, followed by a short bike ride to spend the afternoon helping construct a community project.

The Kingston Fellowship includes an interwoven curriculum that supports the growth and development of wholeness in individuals, communities and the earth. For this reason, it is important to participate in the full interdisciplinary curriculum.

Oikos is Place Corps’ unique orientation experience.

Before jumping into 10 months of skill building and rooting into their urban place, the fellows launch their learning with an experience outside of the city of Kingston in the pastoral fields and mountains of Hawthorne Valley.

Fellows will get to know the folks they’ll be spending a year with and begin to develop the foundation that the coming months will build on.

Learn more about Oikos HERE!

Oikos will take place at the Hawthorne Valley campus in Ghent, NY.

Learn more about Hawthorne Valley, HERE.

No!

Place Corps invites all skill levels to participate in programming at Oikos. No previous experience necessary!

Yes.

Oikos is a crucial part of the Kingston Fellowship and provides a solid foundation for the remaining months ahead.

If you have any concerns about participating at Oikos, send us an email - info@placecorps.org :)

Fellows participate in a wide range of activities and learning experiences as part of Oikos.

This includes:

-Harvesting fresh vegetables

-Exploring local swimming holes

-Discussing local food systems

-Cooking homemade meals together

-Nightly stargazing

-& so much more!

Place Corps supports fellows in finding their next-steps by first helping fellows define what their personal interests and values are.

Place Corps supports fellows throughout the process of finding the right programs or career options that are in personal alignment with their goals. During programming, fellows are able to visit local businesses with apprentice programs, tour culinary schools, and have personal meetings with college admissions counselors.

Place Corps also maintains connections with local apprenticeship programs, trade schools, and with local colleges such as Suny Ulster.

Not necessarily!

Some fellows find college to be the right fit, while other fellows may find trade school, career trainings, or jumping right into the workforce to be in better alignment with their personal goals.

Either way, Place Corps support fellows in putting next-steps in place as they move forward after the Kingston Fellowship.

Our Place Corps alumni are artists, chefs, community organizers, urban designers, environmental advocates, farmers, builders, entrepreneurs, and more.

Place Corps alumni have gone on to pursue a range of options based on their individual interests.

Our graduates have a high acceptance rate to colleges, trade programs, and apprenticeship programs.

Our Place Corps alumni are artists, chefs, community organizers, urban designers, environmental advocates, farmers, builders, entrepreneurs, and more.