Deadline: 5-Sep-21
The Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation is offering the 2022 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships to support breakthrough solutions to Australia’s most pressing social and environmental challenges and bring new talent to the social sector.
The Foundation seeks ideas that are:
- High impact: likely to produce results in the areas of human, civil and legal rights, poverty and disadvantage, and/or sustainability and environment including climate change
- Unique: different from existing approaches
- Scalable and sustainable: the potential to scale up quickly and be sustainable over time.
Themes
Fellows are offered the unique opportunity to take 12 months away from their current role to pursue big ideas that have the potential to achieve positive outcomes in the program themes of:
- poverty and disadvantage
- sustainability and environment
- human, civil and legal rights.
Funding Information
The Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships provide recipients with time and support needed to develop their groundbreaking idea into a sustainable plan for action. Fellows will each receive $120,000 for their 12-month commitment to the program and an additional $30,000 will be available to each Fellow for approved expenses such as work space, rent, travel and contracting of external expertise.
What is Offered?
Each year this program provides outstanding individuals with freedom from their day jobs to:
- open productive new lines of inquiry
- ask provocative questions
- challenge conventional wisdom
- develop new ideas, approaches and strategies.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must:
- be an Australian citizen or permanent resident
- reside in Australia for the majority of the Fellowship period
- be prepared to take a sabbatical from their current role for 12 months
- have a proven track record of out-of-the-box thinking and risk-taking
- have an ability to turn ideas into action
- have well-developed networks within an area of the proposed project.
- The proposed project must:
- be based in Australia
- be aligned with one or more of the subject areas of poverty & disadvantage, sustainability & environment including climate change, or human, civil and legal rights
- have been in development for not longer than three years.
For more information, visit https://www.myerfoundation.org.au/grant-opportunities-list/myer-innovation-fellowships
