Outside Fellowships

This site is designed as a resource for students and alumni interested in outside fellowships in the area of social enterprise. The information can be a first step in identifying potential fellowships, but interested applicants should refer to the organization Web site for complete, accurate details and deadlines for a given year.

For suggestions on fellowships to add to this site, please contact the Initiative on Social Enterprise: se@hbs.edu

AmeriCorps Seeks People With Business Backgrounds to
Join Newly Launched 'Entrepreneur Corps' AmeriCorps*VISTA, part of the AmeriCorps network of national service programs, began its campaign to recruit 400 "social entrepreneurs" to spend a year helping nonprofit organizations and public agencies across the country start or expand programs that enable low-income individuals to attain financial security. Web site: www.americorps.org

Building Excellent Schools Program
Building Excellent Schools is a national non-profit organization committed to dramatically improving the academic achievement of underserved students in urban areas. Through the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, we offer selected leaders a yearlong, full-time comprehensive training program in urban charter school creation and leadership. After the Fellowship, Building Excellent Schools Fellows receive additional support and coaching as they guide their schools successfully through start-up and early operations. Web site: www.buildingexcellentschools.org

The City Year Fireman Public Service Fellowship
The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Public Service Fellowship at City Year is a year-long fellowship designed for graduates of MBA, MPP, MPA and other graduate programs, or those with comparable experience in the private, civic or governmental sectors who seek to make an impact in the nonprofit sector. The Fellowship is awarded annually to a talented individual who will join City Year's National Headquarters in Boston, MA for a minimum of one year to take on mission-critical, high-priority projects. Web site: www.cityyear.org/fireman

Echoing Green fellowships for social entrepreneurs
Echoing Green is a non-profit Foundation that offers full-time Fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs. The Foundation applies a venture capital approach to philanthropy by providing seed money and technical support to individuals creating innovative public service projects that seek to catalyze positive social change. Web site: www.Echoinggreen.org

Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) Fellowship
ELP is a non-profit organization dedicated to training and supporting a new generation of environmental leaders from diverse cultural backgrounds, disciplines, and sectors. The three-year ELP Fellowship offers unique networking opportunities, intensive leadership and skills training, mentoring, project seed money and technical assistance. ELP seeks to bring together individuals with approximately 3-10 years environmental experience from a broad spectrum of disciplines, professions, sectors, educational experiences, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Web site: www.elpnet.org

Fulbright Scholar Program for Faculty and Professionals
announces a new fellowship to bring an American specialist in NGO or non-profit management to the Czech Republic. The specialist may conduct research, teach undergraduate or graduate courses, and/or consult with non-profit organizations. The basic eligibility requirement is a Ph.D., or for professionals, equivalent professional experience in NGO management and/or development. Fellowship is for three to nine months. Activity must be completed during the 2003-2004 academic year. Opportunities in other fields of Public Administration are also available in the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, and the New Independent States. Web site: www.cies.org

The Henry Crown Fellowship Program
The Henry Crown Fellowship Program, established in 1997, seeks to develop our next generation of community-spirited leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of corporate and civic leadership in the 21st century. Each year a class of 20 Crown Fellows is chosen from among young executives and professionals nominated for their potential to provide leadership at the highest levels of corporate and civic responsibility. The selected candidates are men and women between the ages of 25 and 45 who have already achieved considerable success in the private or public sector. Web site: www.aspeninstitute.org

The New Leaders For New Schools Fellowship
Become a New Leader to create and/or lead an urban public school to help every child achieve at high levels. New Leaders for New Schools is a national non-profit organization with one clear mission: promoting high academic achievement for every child by attracting, preparing, and supporting the next generation of outstanding leaders for our nation's urban public schools. To achieve this goal, New Leaders for New Schools provides a new pathway for passionate and resourceful educators to become principals in low-income communities across the country. Already, 328 New Leaders are impacting the lives of 165,000 students across the country. This year, New Leaders for New Schools will select 130 extremely talented leaders who demonstrate a strong record of leadership, instructional expertise in a K-12 setting, and a relentless drive to promote high levels of academic achievement for every child. We seek candidates to become New Leaders and urban school principals in Baltimore, California's Bay Area, Chicago, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York City, and Washington, DC. This fully-funded program includes a year-long full-time residency with a mentor principal in an urban school and three years of intensive one-on-one coaching from a successful veteran principal. New Leaders was named the highest-rated social enterprise in the U.S. by Fast Company Magazine/Monitor Group, highlighted by the U.S. Department of Education as a best practice for school leadership, and featured in newspapers around the country. Web site: www.nlns.org

New Voices Fellowship Program
The program supports promising new leaders committed to social justice and peace. Sponsored fields of work include racial justice/civil rights, foreign policy, migrant and refugee rights, international economic policy, international peace and security, international human rights, and women's rights. The two-year grants offer support for salary, fringe benefits, financial assistance, mentoring, and a professional development account for a promising new leader. Web site: www.aed.org/newvoices

Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Program
PMI was established by Executive Order in 1977 to attract to the Federal service outstanding individuals from a wide variety of academic disciplines who have an interest in, and commitment to, a career in the analysis and management of public policies and programs. By drawing graduate students from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, the PMI Program provides a continuing source of trained men and women to meet the future challenges of public service. Web site: www.pmi.opm.gov

The Reinhard Mohn Fellowship
The fellowship is intended for people who have initiated, led or impelled innovative projects leaders and entrepreneurial talents from all sectors of society - business, the public and non-profit sectors, science, culture, sports, or social services. Fellows are given the opportunity to obtain valuable knowledge and expertise and build up extensive networks through selective training and a wide range of project work in a variety of divisions and at different locations within our global media company. Thus equipped, they are expected to expand on their existing potential and apply it to projects in their own field of activity. Web site: www.reinhard-mohn-fellowship.com

The Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program Fostering a Community of Transatlantic Leaders
Over the past seventeen years, the Robert Bosch Foundation has enabled over 250 young American professionals to acquire an in-depth understanding of the political, economic, and cultural environment of Germany and Europe through an intensive nine-month work and study fellowship program. The Fellows are placed in high level internships in such key German institutions as the Federal Government, the Federal Parliament, headquarters of private corporations, major German media, associations, and cultural institutions. If needed,language training will be provided. The Fellows are competitively chosen from six main fields: Business Administration, Economics, Journalism/Mass Communications, Law, Political Science, and Public Affairs/ Public Policy. Through their various work experiences as well as lectures and related seminar visits to Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt/M., the Czech Republic, Poland, France and Belgium, the Fellows gain a meaningful understanding of issues facing the European Union and Germany today. Web site: www.cdsintl.org/fromusa/bosch.htm

White House Fellows Program
Since 1964 the White House Fellowships have offered outstanding young Americans the opportunity to participate in the day to day business of governing the nation. After a highly competitive selection process, 11 to 19 men and women are chosen to serve for a year as White House Fellows. The fellowship year runs from September 1 through the next August. Each Fellow works full time as a special assistant to a Cabinet member or senior presidential advisor and also participates in an education program designed to nurture his or her development as a leader. Web site: www.whitehousefellows.gov