The Open Society Foundations offers Youth Exchange, in partnership with the Human Rights Initiative and the Open Places Initiative. Applications are invited for its Community Youth Fellowships.
Fellowship value: $60,000 for full-time, 18-month projects
Study areas:
- Criminal justice
- Workers’ rights
- Employment
- Education
- Health
- Housing
- Immigration
- Human rights
Eligibility:
- Applicants must be between the ages of 18-25.
- Applicant must provide proposed projects under one of the following options:
- Option 1: focus on human rights and take place in underserved communities in Puerto Rico, Buffalo, or San Diego; Option 2: focus on human rights in underserved communities anywhere in the United States; this opportunity is specifically for young persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Applicants must be at the earliest stages of their careers, have and want to learn more about what it takes to be most effective as an activist.
- Applicants with directly affected by, or with significant direct personal experience of, the challenges, policies, practices, and systems their projects seek to address will be preferred.
Applications:
Apply with the following documents:
- CV (max. 2 pages)
- Letter of intent (LOI) max. 2 pages
Deadlines and timelines:
- Letters of intent (LOI): January 10, 2017 (11:59 p.m. EST)
- Full proposals invited: February 2017
- Full proposals: March 30, 2017
- Finalists selection: April 30, 2017
- Finalist interviews: June 2017
- Selected fellows notified: June 2017
- Projects begin: No earlier than June 2017
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| Organization | Open Society Foundations |
| Fellowship Level | Research awards |
| Country | USA |
| Subject areas | Human rights, Education, Health |
| Fellowship amount | $60,000 |
| Eligibility | Read above |
| Deadline | January 10, 2017 |
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