Emerson National Hunger Fellowship

The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, a project of the Congressional Hunger Center, is a unique leadership development opportunity for motivated individuals seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty. Each year about twenty participants are selected for this twelve-month program. Fellows are placed for six months with urban and rural community-based organizations all over the country involved in fighting hunger at the local level, such as food banks, community kitchens, and local advocacy agencies. They then move to Washington, DC to complete the year with six months of work at national organizations involved in the anti-hunger and poverty movement, including national advocacy organizations, think tanks, and federal agencies. Through this unique program, the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program develops hunger-fighting leaders with a deep understanding of hunger and poverty at both the local and national level that enables them to find innovative solutions and create the political will to end hunger.

• Eligibility: Requirements: Commitment to social justice and demonstrated leadership qualities and skills, Bachelor’s degree, U.S. citizenship or permanent residency, Flexibility and ability to adjust to new situations, Creativity and initiative in problem solving, Willingness to learn from experts in the field, and commitment to the search for new models in anti-hunger and anti-poverty work. Apply here.
• Deadline: January 22, 2009
• Website: http://www.hungercenter.org/national/national.htm
• Contact:
  Emerson Selection Committee
  Congressional Hunger Center
  Hall of the States Building
  400 North Capitol Street NW Suite G100
  Washington, DC 20001

Echoing Green Fellowship

Echoing Green seeks social entrepreneurs who exhibit fearlessness in defending their ideas, an unwavering belief that all individuals have the potential to contribute meaningfully to society, and a powerful passion for developing new solutions to some of society’s most challenging problems. The Fellowship Program last two years and provides Fellows with financial and technical assistance (ranging from a large global network to a close peer-to-peer learning) to enhance their leadership skills and ensure organizational sustainability. Instead of working on a predefined project with an existing organization, each Fellow creates and builds his/her own organization to execute his/her own vision for social change.

• Deadline: Phase 1 December 1, 5pm EST / Phase 2 February 9, 5pm EST
• Website: http://www.echoinggreen.org/
• Contact: Echoing Green
  494 8th Avenue 2nd Floor
  New York, NY 10001

Coro Community Problem-Solving Fellowship

The Coro Community Problem-Solving Fellowship is a ten-week summer program designed to encourage African American college sophomores, juniors and seniors to experience Pittsburgh, specifically the progressive, innovative Pittsburgh that values diversity. The purpose of the program is to expose bright talented minority college students to the professional, economic and social resources that exist in the region through multi-sector field assignments, seminars and networking events.

• Deadline: April 2009
• Website: http://www.coro. org/site/c.muI0LcMOJpE/ b.2108469/k.76B1/ Community_Problem_Solving_Fellowship. htm
• Contact: Selena Schmidt
  Director of Leadership Development
  33 Terminal Way Suite 429A
  Pittsburgh, PA 15219
  Tel: (412) 258-2674.
  sscmidt@coro.org

Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) –Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program

CTWO is a racial justice organization that works towards the building of a social justice movement led by people of color. This resource center promotes the advancement of racial justice; sending out messages worldwide. It works to establish model multi-racial community organizations, build an active network of organizations and activists of color, and train the new participants, including members of the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program. Members of MAAP participate in an internship working on the movement towards economic social justice. Placed with any one of CTWO’s partnering organizations, members work full-time on an organizing campaign with a community organization or labor union.

• Deadline: Annually April
• Website: http://www.ctwo.org/index.php?s=27
• Contact: AAP Application
  1218 East 21st Street
  Oakland, CA 94606
  Fax:(510) 533-0923
  training@ctwo.org

Ashoka Innovators for the Public Fellowship

Ashoka’s mission is to seek and invest in social entrepreneurs from around who exhibits creativity, a strong drive, and the ethical fiber to promote positive social change. Fellows are supported financially through a living stipend and professionally through Ashoka’s global network of social entrepreneurs. Fellows work to serve the public in many areas including education, environment, health, human rights, civic participation and economic development. Ashoka has more than 1,400 Fellows across the world transforming the lives of millions of underserved people.

• Deadline: rolling
• Website: http://www.ashoka.org
• Contact:
  1700 North Moore Street, Suite 2000 (20th Floor)
  Arlington, VA 22209
  Phone: 703.527.8300
  Fax: 703.527.8383
  info@ashoka.org