Fellowships
Ashoka
Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of
social entrepreneurship around
the world. Ashoka invests in people. It is a global non-profit
organization that
searches the world for social entrepreneurs, extraordinary individuals, with
unprecedented ideas for change in their communities. Ashoka identifies and
invests in these social entrepreneurs when no one else will.
It does so through stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka
Fellows" to focus full time on their ideas for leading social change in
education
and youth development, health care, environment, human rights, access to
technology and economic development.
Ashoka has invested in more than 1,400 Ashoka Fellows in 48 countries.
Those Fellows have transformed the lives of millions of people in thousands
of communities worldwide.
Echoing Green
is a non-profit foundation that applies a venture capital approach to
philanthropy. Through echoing green, fellows receive seed money and
technical support to start innovative public service organizations
and projects that seek to catalyze positive social change. Each
successful fellow is awarded a two-year grant totaling $60,000.00
($30,000.00 per year); for co-fellows working on the same project,
the amount is $90,000 for the two years ($45,000.00 per year). Please
visit the echoing green
website for more detailed information. Deadline has passed.
Public Interest Advocacy
The state PIRGs' Fellowship Program is designed to develop leaders
for the public interest movement. The program offers recent graduates
a unique apprenticeship opportunity through a combination of
mentorship, training, and hands-on advocacy and organizing
experience. Working side-by-side with experienced advocates and
organizers, Fellows function as adjunct advocates and organizers
themselves. Day-to-day work may include lobbying; research and
report-writing; contact with media; coalition organizing; running
grassroots citizen outreach campaigns, and campaign development.
Fellows work on a range of public interest issues including
preventing urban sprawl; reducing and eliminating the hazards of
toxic pollution; preserving wilderness areas; controlling the price
of prescription drugs, and reforming a political process overcome by
wealthy special interests. Each fellow typically focuses on either issue advocacy or field
organizing.
Salary & Training:
Current graduates earn $19,000 in their first year
with the state PIRGs, and $20,500 in their second year. Participants in the PIRG
Fellowship Program receive health insurance, accrue two weeks paid vacation in
their first year, three weeks in their second year, and are eligible for college
loan assistance.
Locations
The state
PIRGs are currently hiring for positions in: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA,
MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NM, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, UT, WA, WI and Washington,
D.C.
Click
here
for an application.
New Americas
Fellowship Program
The purpose of New Americas Fellowship Program is to train and support a
new generation of aspiring public intellectuals. Toward this end, the New
America Foundation provides economic, professional, and intellectual
support to exceptionally promising young writers, thinkers, and analysts
who wish to establish themselves as leading voices in the national policy
debate. By investing in the career development of many of the best and
brightest civic-minded writers of our time, the Foundation seeks to enrich
the quality of Americas public debate for years to come.
One of the primary causes of our nations impoverished public debate is the
scarcity of promising young thinkers making their mark as credible public
intellectuals. Although there are organizations and publications on both
sides of the political spectrum that help emerging writers espouse
predictable partisan positions, no comparable support structures exists
for independent-minded thinkers who want to engage in an open-ended search
for pragmatic public policy solutions. Aspiring intellectuals whose views
do not put them squarely on one ideological side or another therefore lack
the financial support, career guidance, institutional credibility, and
intellectual community needed for them to emerge as potent new voices on
the national scene.
The New America Foundation awards each year up to 20 Fellowships on a
highly competitive basis. At one end of the spectrum are Senior Fellows
who have already distinguished themselves as leading policy thinkers. At
the other end are a larger group of Fellows who have exceptional potential
but are not yet well established. All Fellows come to the Foundation to
pursue solutions-oriented research and writing programs of their own
design. A comprehensive application and multiple interview process is used
to determine which candidates combine powerful ideas for moving public
thinking into new terrain with a proven ability to communicate in ways
that can gain broad national attention. For profiles of current Fellows or
for Fellowship application guidelines, please visit our web site.
New America Fellows receive far more than financial support. They are
provided office space, health insurance, research and editorial
assistance, help in placing articles, and perhaps most important, the
opportunity to interact in a close-knit intellectual community. The
organizations senior staff regularly provide intellectual guidance,
high-quality editing, training in public speaking, and a host of other
professional development services to the Fellows. At the same time, New
America strives to build a diverse, vibrant, and interdisciplinary
intellectual community, which is essential if cross-pollination of ideas and
genuine policy breakthroughs are to occur. In this spirit, the
organization holds regular Fellowship meetings and weekend-long retreats
to allow all Fellows to discuss their latest research and writing projects
with one another, and to gain helpful perspectives and advice in the
process. The Foundation also hosts regular events and seminars featuring
well-known outside speakers.
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