Deadline: 31-Jan-23
The Open Society Foundations is pleased to announce the Soros Equality Fellowship to support individual leaders influencing the racial justice field.
They invite applicants to be bold, innovative, and audacious in their submissions. The aim of the Fellowship is to be flexible and open – a space to incubate new ideas, promote risk-taking, and develop different ways of thinking that challenge and expand their existing assumptions. A successful project should identify a challenge and propose a critical intervention that will meaningfully address the systems that reinforce inequities and discrimination in the United States.
Through the Soros Equality Fellowships and their partner fellowships within Open Society-U.S. — the Soros Justice Fellowship and the Leadership in Government Fellowship — Open Society aims to provide a network of leaders, representing the diversity of experiences across the issues they support, with the resources to effectively address injustice and inequality, and the space to imagine a more just and equitable future.
Funding Information
- The Fellowship award provides individuals with roughly $130,000 to support the production of an innovative racial justice project over the course of 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Fellowship Term and Time Commitment
- Applicants must be able to devote at least 35 hours per week to the project if awarded a Fellowship; and the project must be the applicant’s only full-time work during the course of the Fellowship.
- Projects Based Outside the United States
- Applicants may be based outside the United States, provided their work directly pertains to a U.S. racial justice issue and is able to demonstrate a proficiency in spoken and written English.
- Joint Applications
- Up to two individuals can apply jointly for a Soros Equality Fellowship. However, joint applications will share one fellowship award. A joint application should be completed together as a single submission. For joint applicants, the “full-time work” requirement does not apply to each applicant. All other restrictions associated with an individual application still apply.
- Lobbying
- Projects that include electioneering, lobbying, or other activity that does not fall within IRS 501(c)(3) guidelines will not be funded. Please carefully review the Tax Law Lobbying Rules before submitting an application. If awarded a fellowship, applicants are required to attend a training session on the tax law lobbying rules, conducted by the Open Society Foundations’ General Counsel’s Office; and must agree to refrain from engaging in restricted lobbying and political activities during the term of the Fellowship.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The program does not fund the following:
- Enrollment for degree or non-degree study at academic institutions, including dissertation research
- Projects that address racial justice issues outside the United States (applicants themselves, however, can be based outside the United States, as long as their work directly relates to a U.S. issue)
- Projects that serve as proxy for an organizational grant
- Lobbying or political activities.
For more information, visit Open Society Foundation.