Kingston Fellowship Details

Dates & Fees:

Program Dates

Duration: 10 months

Dates: August-May

Kingston Fellowship is for Kingston School District residents ages 18-21

Fees and Payment

We believe in the power of education to create radical and necessary changes for good, and see learning as a valuable gift. Place Corps fundraises and offers tiered tuition to ensure accepted applicants can attend without financial barrier.

Tuition Tiers

Place Corps uses an equitable model of tiered tuition to ensure 100% of accepted applicants can attend. Placement in tiers is based on yearly combined household income.

Green: $0 [no cost]

Red: $1,001 - $15,000

Blue: $15,001 -$30,400

We offer scholarship equal to 10% off a paid tier to students who identify as women and/or BIPOC, along with payment plans. Tuition tiers are self-selected and rooted in a culture of trust. We’ve shared some things to consider when selecting your tier!

You may place yourself in a higher tier if you:

  • Have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education, gender, racial privilege, class background, etc.

  • Own the home you live in;

  • Have investments/ retirement account;

  • Travel recreationally;

  • Have access to family money in times of need;

  • Do not work or work part-time by choice;

  • Own one or more vehicles, computers, or other costly items.

 
 

*To see where you may place in our tiered tuition, view Tuition Tiers below. Our team is here to help you if you have questions! Email us at info@placecorps.org

*Household is one or more people living together who buy food and make meals together

**To calculate your Combined Household Income, add up the earned income for everyone living in your household

You may place yourself in a lower tier if you:

  • Receive any form of public assistance;

  • Have immigration related expenses;

  • Have medical expenses not covered by insurance;

  • Are on a fixed income;

  • Have tuition/ educational expenses or student debt

What’s Included

Monthly Stipend: $500

Completion Award: $4,000

The fee also includes: registration and tuition fees, materials, mentorship, farming, and building class supplies, use of studio equipment, transportation, conferences, residencies, and trainings, and community meals. 

What’s Not Included

Personal transportation and insurance is not included. Place Corps will cover the costs of any required readings or learning tools related to curriculum. Additional materials fellows would like for projects are not covered, such as: additional books, personal project expenses, and college credit course fees.

Availability

Spaces are limited to 16 fellows max per year. Registrations are processed in the order received. Late applicants may reserve a spot on the waiting list with a fully refundable $150 deposit.

Travel to and from Place Corps Homeroom

Place Corps works to provide fellows a means of transport around the city of Kingston for the duration of the program. This includes bikes and public transport tickets for specific occasions. Most workshops and classes are within walking distance of Homeroom. Transportation for further excursions is provided. It is the fellow’s responsibility to navigate arrival and departure from Homeroom at the beginning and end of each day; if a fellow needs support in this, the Place Corps team will work with them to create a plan!

Payment Methods

All payments must be made in USD dollars. Payment can be made by wire transfer, Visa/MasterCard or check. Once we have received your application form, the person responsible for payment will receive an email with detailed instructions.

Refund Policy

Once the program has started, no refunds are granted for early voluntary withdrawal, absences or behavioral dismissals (decisions which are at the sole discretion of Place Corps). In the event that a cohort is cancelled by Place Corps for whatever reason, all fees will be refunded.

* Place Corps will honor a full refund until the program start date for any Covid-19 related cancellations such as illness, inability to travel, or unforeseen circumstances supported with documentation.

Medical Insurance

Medical insurance is not included in the program fee. All residents must have medical insurance prior to their arrival at Place Corps. 

 

Some Words On Stipends and Awards

Too often, young people enter adulthood unprepared to manage their own finances. This lack of preparation can mean the difference between a young person thriving versus surviving on tight financial margins. The inequities that plague our dominant systems show up similarly in financial education and readiness, furthering the disparity of opportunity between those with privilege and those without. Often historically excluded communities like Black, Indigenous, and People of Color have less access to finances to start businesses, get loans, and even just pay living expenses compared with their white counterparts due to systemic racism. At Place Corps, we not only acknowledge these realities, but we also address them in an applied learning curriculum. 

Financial literacy is often taught like a drawing class where students learn about the pen and paper needed to draw but not supplied with those materials to practice. Place Corps offers the materials needed to make financial education real. Place Corps Kingston offers each fellow both a stipend throughout the program and award at graduation. Every month of the program, each participant is given a $500 stipend. This monthly allotment enhances the financial education that equips fellows with real life skills. Fellows learn to budget, save, pay bills, while also practicing the possibilities of non-monetary economies like bartering, time banking, lending circles, and more. 

The program completion prize of $4,000 per fellow is an investment in their promise and ingenuity. In our society, it is often those with access to capital through unearned privilege who are able to take a leap to start a business, purchase a home, invest in the stock market, or save for retirement. This completion prize is an opportunity for young people to imagine their futures and learn the best ways to invent their next reality through the applied learning of this prize. We may see that fellows pool their prizes and buy a commercial property as a cooperative initiative, or start a savings or investment account for their future, they may start a community fund, or finance mutual aid efforts. The way they will apply their funds is unknown, but the education and benefit of being entrusted and prepared throughout the program to take on that responsibility are profound. 

For families that are able to fund their child’s Place Corps tuition, the stipend and award are included as materials in that tuition. This way, philanthropic support for Place Corps is allocated to the full tuition, including stipend and award, of fellows who are unable to pay the tuition.