Echoing Green invests in Fellows to help build and shift power in their communities, drive inclusive and intersectional solutions forward, and fuel radical leaps of imagination that transform systems and power social movements.
Echoing Green Global Fellowships provide generous support, over two years, to promising social entrepreneurs, giving them start-up capital and technical assistance as they launch their organizations and build the capacity of their social enterprise, anywhere in the world.
Each fellowship provides a generous stipend, plus a health insurance stipend and an annual professional development stipend. (Two-person partnerships will receive a slightly larger stipend.) Echoing Green also provides conferences for fellows, led by organizational and development experts, access to technical support and pro bono partnerships, and access to an extensive community of like-minded social entrepreneurs and public service leaders, including nearly 500 alumni of its own fellowship program.
Eligibility
Echoing Green Fellowship applicants must:
- Be 18 years or older;
- Able to communicate in English proficiently;
- 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. You must also be the primary decision maker and have the ultimate authority over your organization’s growth and strategic vision.
- Echoing Green uses the term “original founder” to describe people who launched or are launching an organization that is their original idea. You cannot have assumed a leadership position within the organization after its founding.
- 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.
- Applicants can be citizens of any nationality, and their organizations can be based in any country, but applicants with projects based in the U.S. must have legal status to work in the U.S.
Echoing Green evaluates fellowship applications on several criteria to assess both the strength of the applicants as well as the strength of their ideas. Applicants are expected to show a strong sense of purpose, resilience, leadership, and the capacity to attract resources. Organizational ideas should be innovative in some way, address a serious social problem, have the potential for significant impact, and be based on a sound business model.