Applications are open for the Echoing Green Fellowship 2024 to young applicants with an idea or working on a plan. This fellowship enable them to bring a positive change in the world can apply to a two-year Fellowship program.  The institution seeks inspiring leaders committed to eliminating structural oppression and affecting change in their communities so all people can flourish.

The Echoing Green Fellowship is for people who are experts on the challenge they’ve chosen to confront and whose enterprises are at an early stage. We seek leaders who reflect the communities they serve and bring deep knowledge of the issues into their work as they design solutions with and for their communities. We strongly encourage leaders from anywhere in the world who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color to apply for the Fellowship.

Echoing Green Fellowship Duration: is a two-year full-time program for innovators, investigators, pioneers, and social justice leaders from across the world to work on:

• Education
• Climate Change
• Human rights
• Poverty
• Health
• Racial Justice

The target group of this Fellowship is leaders who:

• Build and shift power:The best innovators use their clear understanding of the problem to develop the sharpest solutions. The Fellowship looks for leaders who show how their ideas will shift power to the people most impacted by the outcomes of their enterprise.
• Resource intersectional approaches:leaders who build solutions with an intersectional understanding of how social identities, including gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, and class, intersect with race to shape people’s experiences in the world differently
• Fuel radical imagination. Our community is inspired by the idea that collectively, we can help build a world that has yet to exist—where all people can thrive.

Applicants should show their leadership qualities in clear examples in their application and showcase their ability to drive ideas forward, build support for their vision, and lead an organization toward its goals.

Key Details

Application Deadline: 2 November 2023 14:00 (EDT)

Application Result Notification: June/July 2024

Awarding Institution: Echoing Green

Location: USA

Selected Finalists: N/A

Fellowship Duration: Two-year

Program Type: Full-time program

Funding Type: Fully funded

Benefits of the Echoing Green Fellowship

Fellows participating in the program will benefit from the following benefits:

• Leadership Training: A thorough curriculum for developing leadership skills and the tactics required for ideas to thrive.
• Support for Wellness and Well-being: Ongoing assistance focuses on mental and emotional well-being and self-care seminars tailored to the challenges of entrepreneurship.
• Professional Resources: The Fellow experience is facilitated by the programs team, which links these leaders to specialists and opportunities based on their requirements.
• Seed Capital: A stipend of USD 80,000 paid over 18 months. For-profit organizations receive funding in the form of recoverable grants.
• Virtual and In-Person Meetings: Gatherings to connect Fellows inside and across classes, regions, and communities to foster strong bonds between Fellows throughout their entrepreneurial journey.
• Expert Assistance: A set of pro bono services prominent specialists provide to help organizations build capacity and navigate the social innovation industry—opportunities to network with seasoned corporate executives devoted to global good social change.

 

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Eligibility criteria

The Echoing Green Fellowship has two types of requirements: one for applicants and next for organizations as follows:

For applicant:

• Be over 18 years by 1 June 2024
• Demonstrate proficiency in English
• Be able to commit full-time to your organization
• Be the founder or a leading member of the proposed organization
• Students or currently employed people must agree to make their organization your full-time engagement if awarded a fellowship.
• Applicants can be from any country and do not need to be an American citizen or based in America.
• They can reapply for the Fellowship if their previous application was not successful.

For Organization: 

• Independent organizations with fiscal sponsors can apply for the Echoing Green Fellowship if the fiscal sponsor has no power over the organization’s activity and decision-making.
• You must be able to make and act on organizational decisions of your choosing to be eligible for an Echoing Green Fellowship. You may not qualify if other organizations or entities administer or have decision-making authority over your proposed organization.
• Echoing Green cannot provide funding to organizations whose major goal is lobbying.
• The organization cannot participate in the promotion, recruitment, or conversion of a specific religious faith to your constituency to be eligible for an Echoing Green Fellowship.
• An Echoing Green Fellow cannot be a member of the founding team or someone in a leadership position.
• The organization should be the original idea of the applicant, in its start-up phase, or independent.
• Non-profit, for-profit, and hybrid organizations can apply
• Organizations can have multiple founders, but only one of them can apply.
• Organization in the Ideation phase can apply (no need for registration)
• Your organization should be independent and autonomous.
• No one at the leadership level should have previously received this Fellowship.
• Not be tuition, scholarship funding, research projects, lobbying, or faith-based organizations.

Selection Criteria

The selection committee willassess the applications against the following criteria:

• Leadership Qualities
• Purpose Alignment
• Innovation
• Changing Systems

Application Process

Apply During the Open Application Period: Our application process is intended to be inclusive, constructive, and engaging; we provide materials to assist you as you develop your application.

Get Insights as You Proceed: Our team of experienced reviewers carefully analyses and scores your application materials before you are notified of your candidacy status.

Take Part in Interviews: As a Finalist, you will have an interview with professional judges and highlighted in our Talent Report.

Celebrate And Begin Your Collaborative Journey: If you are chosen for a Fellowship, your experience will begin with onboarding and ongoing mentoring from us.

How to Apply for the Echoing Green Fellowship?

You can apply online, but note that multiple applications will result in the termination of all.

 

Apply Now

 

Helpful Recourse:

• Guiding principles for fellow investment
• Offline application
• Selection Criteria
• Video submission guidance
• Sample FAQs

 

 

Please visit the official website of the Echoing Green for the 2024 Echoing Green Fellowship or read the application details.

 

 

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