Social start-ups are being encouraged to apply for the Echoing Green Fellowship, which provides up to $90,000 in capital for entrepreneurs to launch their start-ups and build capacity.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The fellowship, structured as a two-year program, is an initiative of Echoing Green, a New York-based organisation that invests in standout social entrepreneurs to launch new organisations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To date, Echoing Green has invested nearly $30 million in seed funding to almost 500 social entrepreneurs and their organisations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Echoing Green Fellowship provides a stipend of $80,000 for individuals and $90,000 for two-person partnerships, paid in four equal installments over two years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition to technical support and pro bono partnerships, recipients are invited to conferences led by organisational development experts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They also receive a health insurance stipend and a yearly professional development stipend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Applicants can be citizens of any nationality and their organisation can be based in any country. However, organisations must have been in operation for no longer than two years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cApplicants who have only worked on their organisation on a part-time basis or have yet to start the organisation are generally considered eligible,\u201d Echoing Green says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cApplicants must make a full-time commitment to the organisation\u2019s development for the duration of the two-year fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt is expected that all selected fellows resign from their current employment to dedicate themselves fulltime to their initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Applicants must also attend all training conferences held throughout the program, although Echoing Green covers all related expenses, and announces the dates several months in advance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>The Echoing Green Fellowship selection process is highly competitive. Applicants progress through three application stages, with eliminations after each phase,\u201d the organisation says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cBy the end of the process, Echoing Green will have narrowed the 2500-plus applications to 12-20 fellowships. The 2012 Fellows will begin their fellowship July 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Applications will be open online from December 5 to January 9.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, applications are now open for the School for Social Entrepreneurs 2012 program, held in Sydney and Melbourne, and aimed at socially or environmentally-minded entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe next two nine-month\u2026 incubator programs will both commence in March 2012, one being run from Melbourne and one from Sydney,\u201d a school spokesperson says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe 2012 programs have seven three-day face-to-face blocks, and the other elements of the program are time and place-flexible.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis structure allows for those outside of Melbourne and Sydney to participate with more ease than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social start-ups are being encouraged to apply for the Echoing Green Fellowship, which provides up to $90,000 in capital for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}