Deadline: 16 November 2016
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) is seeking applicants for its Soros Equality Fellowship in order to support emerging midcareer professionals who will become long-term innovative leaders impacting the racial justice field.
The aim of the Fellowship is to incubate innovation, promote risk-taking, and develop new ways of thinking that challenge existing assumptions.
Award Information
The fellowship award includes $80,000 to $100,000 over the course of the fellowship period, accompanied by the requisite skill building, mentorship, and support to ensure a fluid leadership pipeline between early-career promise and later-career expertise.
Eligibility Criteria
- The program will fund projects that align with the U.S Programs’ Equality team’s approach to racial justice. This approach:
- rejects the 21st century postracial myth, which claims that by acknowledging race and ethnicity, they promote racism and xenophobia; it instead embraces the value of acknowledging the discriminatory impact that certain seemingly race-neutral policies can have on immigrants and communities of color;
- believes that documenting this disparate impact and the ongoing role of discrimination provides a platform for others to question the legitimacy of structures that limit access to democracy, justice, education, and the economy;
- recognizes the enduring power of language, image, media, the arts, and public opinion to combat or perpetuate discrimination against immigrants and people of color in the United States and across the globe; and
- prioritizes the dismantling of structures that perpetuate discrimination and limit access over the targeting of individual actors who engage in discrimination.
- All projects must, at a minimum, relate to one or more of the following U.S. racial justice goals:
- building the capacity of the racial justice field to combat structural racism and xenophobia
- creating sustainable organizations capable of empowering the communities they serve
- changing the racial narrative to one that removes the distortions of racism and xenophobia as a barrier to equal opportunity
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit a CV or resume and a one-to-two-page, single-spaced letter of inquiry electronically at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Soros Equality Fellowship.