Deadline: May 3, 2022.

For 35 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems by raising up transformational leaders who challenge the status quo.

Echoing Green supports bold leaders from all over the world who see possibility in the face of the most existential challenges of our day. Together, they strive to build a world that has yet to exist: a future free from racism and its far-reaching consequences where all people can thrive.

This Fellowship is for people whose enterprises are at an early stage and who are experts on the challenge they’ve chosen to confront. They seek leaders who reflect the community they serve and bring deep knowledge of the issues into their work as they co-design solutions with and for their communities.

ELIGIBILITY

APPLICANT

1. Echoing Green Fellowship applicants must be 18 years or older by August 8, 2022.
2. To be eligible for the Fellowship and fully participate in programming and support offerings, you must be able to communicate in English proficiently. Support throughout the Echoing Green Fellowship is offered in English.
3. To be eligible, you must be a leader with decision-making power within the organization and be either 1) a sole founder or 2) a leading founder on a team of people who created the organization.
4. To be eligible for an Echoing Green Fellowship, applicants must be the primary decision maker and have the ultimate authority over your organization’s growth and strategic vision.
5. If selected for an Echoing Green Fellowship, you may hold other professional responsibilities, but you must work full time, defined here as 40 hours a week, on the work outlined in your Fellowship application, and it must remain as your main professional priority.

ORGANIZATION

1. Organizations that are independent but have fiscal sponsors are eligible for the Echoing Green Fellowship as long as the fiscal sponsor has no authority over the organization’s work and decision making.
2. To be eligible for an Echoing Green Fellowship, you must be able to make and act on organizational decisions of your own choosing. If other organizations or entities manage or hold decision-making authority for your proposed organization, you may not be eligible. 
3. Echoing Green seeks applicants in need of funding to initiate or scale their organizations. 
4. For you and your organization to be eligible for an Echoing Green Fellowship, no founding team members and no people in a leadership position can be an Echoing Green Fellow.

BENEFITS

1. PERSONALIZED FRAMEWORK: A comprehensive program to build and grow leadership skills and develop the strategies needed for ideas to thrive.
2. WELLBEING SUPPORT: Ongoing support focusing on mental and emotional wellbeing, as well as self-care workshops designed specifically for the struggles of entrepreneurship.
3. LEADER SUPPORT: A portfolio team facilitates the Fellow experience and connects these leaders to experts and opportunities according to their needs.
4. SEEDING FUNDING: A stipend over 18 months (80,000 USD). Funding offered to for-profit organizations is in the form of recoverable grants.
5. RETREATS AND NETWORKING EVENTS: Gatherings to connect Fellows across classes and cohorts, as well as with experienced business leaders, institutions, and investors committed to solving global issues.
6. EXPERT PARTNERS: A suite of pro-bono support from leading professionals to build organizational capacity and help navigate the social entrepreneurship field.

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