Hire ready-made talent at an affordable rate and grow your business.

Gain an invaluable team member trained by industry experts like Erika Varangouli and end inequality in the marketing industry by employing a paid Black or Brown intern from the FCDC Training Cohorts.

“Our intern was off to a running start, leveraging her inherent passion and care for SEO.”

We’re so pleased with our intern from the Freelance Coalition for Developing Countries. The training helped ensure that she was off to a running start, leveraging her inherent passion and care for SEO with solid, concrete knowledge & understanding as an incredible basis and jumping-off point for tech SEO work.

— Tory Gray, the Gray Dot Company

“Our intern had enough skills to contribute to projects immediately.”

Our Tech SEO intern from the FCDC came to us with enough skills to participate and contribute in a helpful way to real projects immediately.

— Lindsay Wassell, Keyphraseology

Hire brilliant marketing talent with ease.

Gain a teammate who cares about your clients’ projects as much as you do when you hire an intern from any of the FCDC Cohorts.

Hire someone who has been taught by the best minds in the marketing industry, including Sarah Sal, Erika Varangouli, and Tara Struyk.

Employ an asset you can trust with tasks immediately after hiring them.

Recruit an intern with excellent time-management, problem-solving, and communication skills that seamlessly fit your team.

Enjoy marketing excellence while breaking the terrible cycle of poverty hoisted upon BIPOC marketers who aren’t privileged enough to come from first-world countries.

Hi, I'm Chima 👋🏿

💫 Black Marketer Extraordinaire🌟

I’m a Senior Content Manager and Strategist who has created content for companies like Wix, Remitly, and Guru.

💪🏿 A loud advocate for BIPOC marketers 💪🏿

I advocate for BIPOC marketers because I understand that there aren’t enough Marketers of Color at the top and a lot of Black and Brown folks in the industry are exploited for gain while they remain stuck in poverty.I founded The Freelance Coalition for Developing Countries (FCDC) because I was tired of the status quo.At the FCDC, my team and I enlist the help of generous donors like you who donate time, resources, and cash to ensure that our members escape a system that keeps them stuck in the rat race

❤️‍🩹 Creator of the FCDC Training Cohort & Paid Internship Program 🌍

I created the FCDC Training Cohort and Paid Internship Program when I realized that training members of the FCDC wasn’t enough.They also needed to have valuable experience if they were going to escape the terrible cycle of poverty.

Introducing The FCDC Training Cohort and Paid Internship Program.

The 3-month program makes it easy for you to hire a self-starting team member who brilliantly handles projects at an affordable rate. It also helps us break the barriers that keep BIPOC marketers overworked and underpaid.

You gain an invaluable employee when you hire an intern from the Cohorts.

Here’s how I know…

➜ The Cohorts focused on specialty training for 3 months of continuous learning. There are three Training Cohorts, each focused on a different marketing specialty: Copywriting, Content Writing, and Content Marketing.

➜ The Cohorts are highly competitive. Only ten students were chosen to train in each Cohort out of 200+ applications.

➜ Teachers closely monitored each student’s progress and gave feedback to the students.

➜ Leaders of the Cohorts adopted a comprehensive and practical curriculum to train members.

➜ Only top-performing students are paired with an agency for the internship program.

Thanks to the FCDC Training Cohort and Internship Program, Sodiq no longer has to choose between food for his family and marketing tools.

” My location and the color of my skin put me at a disadvantage for seven years.

I used to earn $120 a month working round the clock. I wrote 1500 words for $5 because I thought this was the best offer.

I never took my kids to nice restaurants because I couldn’t afford anything above the bare essentials.

Thankfully, I joined the coalition, and my life changed. My monthly revenue has jumped fourfold, and I’m on course to 10x it before the end of Q2.

I can give my family the life I’ve always wanted without choosing between food or marketing tools.”

— Sodiq Ajala, Tech SEO Cohort Alumni (Nigeria)

Teachers of the Cohorts have delivered excellent results to their clients and employers.

Sarah Sal taught the Copywriting Cohort.

She is a Facebook Ads Specialist with 10+ years of experience generating 7-figure ad revenue for clients.

She has created ads for Hootsuite and AdEspresso, served as a panelist at Brighton SEO, appeared on the Copywriter Club’s Podcast, and written articles for publications like Copyhackers.

Erika Varangouli led the Content Marketing Cohort.

She was responsible for building meaningful connections between SEMRush and the SEO community as Head of SEO Branding at SEMRush.

She regularly hosts educational webinars and is now the Head of Branded Content at Riverside.fm.

Tara Struyk trained the Content Writing Cohort.

She is the Vice President of Content at Janalta and co-founder of Kinkly.

Her niche expertise is in finance, and she has written content for online publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, Investopedia, Techopedia, and Glamour Magazine.

The intern you’ll get was trained with a comprehensive curriculum that combines current trends.

The Copywriting Cohort Curriculum led by Sarah Sal

Students in the Copywriting Cohort learned how to write engaging copy for

Ads
Social media
Email marketing campaigns
Website pages
Landing + Sales pages copy

“I learned to write persuasive, engaging, and compelling copy.”

Before joining the copywriting cohort, I didn’t know if the copy I wrote was engaging with the customers or if it would convert.During this copywriting program, Sarah taught me how to be specific with the copy, write copy that evokes emotion, use analogies, and use testimonials and reviews to make the copy more persuasive, engaging, and compelling.

Saba Sohail

Copywriting Cohort Trainee (Pakistan)

The Content Writing Cohort Curriculum led by Tara Struyk

Students in the Content Writing Cohort can competently write content in any niche because they learned:

Reading content like a writer and an editor.

Audience research.

Creating content briefs and outlines with the help of tools like SEMRush.

Performing keyword research, on-page and off-page SEO, and internal linking.

Using E-E-A-T to create quality and niche content.

Looking for sources using their network in addition to services like HARO and Help a B2B Writer.

Using AI to create good content.

“ I learned how to write high-quality content that outranked the competition.”

When I joined the Cohort, I was a generalist who wrote both short—and long-form content. I saw the opportunity in SEO Content Writing, but I lacked the right tools and knowledge.The cohort helped me learn to write high-quality content that outranked the competition using keyword research, link-building strategy, and content gap analysis.

Nina Camara

Content Writing Trainee (United Kingdom)

The Content Marketing Cohort Curriculum led by Erika Varangouli

Trainees in the Content Marketing Cohort led by Erika Varangouli became better content strategists by covering the following:

Market and competitor’s analysis.
Audience and topic research focusing on insights, keyword research, and jobs to be done.
Content audit.
Content strategy and plans.
Measuring and reporting the results of a content marketing campaign.

“I learned how to develop a content marketing strategy.”

Before the Cohort, I couldn’t develop a content marketing strategy.At the Cohort, I learned how to do this using competitor analysis, audience research, content audit, and topic research.

Festus Eze

Content Marketing Cohort Trainee (Nigeria)

How to hire an intern from the FCDC Training Cohort

➜ You fill out the form to inform me which training cohort you prefer to hire from.

➜ I will get back to you within 24 hours with resumes of suitable candidates.

➜ You’ll be paired with your choice intern within the week.

➜ The internship lasts for three months.

➜ You can decide whether to retain your intern or end the internship at the end of the program.

Join agency owners who pay BIPOC talent a fair wage

I’m asking you to pay the interns a living wage of $1,500(USD) per month because my team and I believe that pay should not depend on location but on talent.

Ready to work with top talent and invest in positive change?

You’ll be hiring an intern who:

Is trained by experts who have achieved commendable and enviable success in their careers.

Has soft skills you can’t teach regardless of seniority level.

Helps deliver quality results to your clients.

“A fantastic way to meet your business bottom line.”

We had a project where a client was like “Hey, something is messed up. Our traffic is going down. What is going on?”

Usually, when we have queries like this, they are from new clients. But in this case, it was an existing client.

And it was fun working with someone new who was smart and cared. I got her to take the first look and put a case together that identified the cause of the problem.

Seeing her put in the effort and go through the stages of feedback was really cool. There is just a certain baseline of things that I can expect from an intern that has gone through the Cohort, who understands the program, and showed up consistently.

This is a fantastic way to get somebody who already has a baseline of knowledge, especially for a business that works with interns.

They have already shown enthusiasm, work ethic, care, and passion. It’s also a fantastic way to meet your business bottom line if that is what you care about.

— Tory Gray, The Gray Dot Company

“Highly recommend supporting this worthwhile program.”

The FCDC internship program is a great way to gain exposure to diversity and bring on a specialized skill set.

Quality SEO talent is difficult to find, and FCDC’s training by Aleyda Solis is something that you can’t replicate. I highly recommend supporting this worthwhile program.