Deadline: 6-Oct-22
If you had the chance to take the time to develop yourself and increase your impact, would you do it? The Westpac Social Change Fellowship is both empowering and inspiring.
The objective of the Westpac Social Change Fellowship is to create positive social change in Australia by investing in people who have the drive, the commitment and innovative ideas to improve the wellbeing of Australians.
The Fellowship will provide funding to support experiences that directly invest in your skills, leadership capabilities and networks. Their aim is to help you explore, refine and drive the success of your social change initiative. Your Fellowship experience may involve study tours, work experience, short courses, coaching, stakeholder engagement or building stronger connections.
Funding Information
Each year, up to 10 successful candidates will receive:
- Funding up to the value of $50,000 to invest in their personal capacity to lead social change
- The funding may be directed toward covering:
- Costs associated with overseas or domestic travel to attend conferences or study tours;
- Meetings with organisations delivering leading practice in your field of social change or aligned with your development objectives;
- Short courses (no longer than 4 weeks in length);
- Stakeholder engagement and networking opportunities to build stronger connections with relevant people and organisations;
- Mentoring and coaching; and
- Lifelong membership of Westpac 100 Scholars Network.
Criteria
To be eligible, you must:
- Be over the age of 18.
- Be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- Be leading an existing social change initiative to address a clearly defined social need in an Australian community at a local, state or national level.
- Seek funding for your personal development and learning.
- Be able to demonstrate support from the community that your initiative is seeking to benefit.
- Be able to demonstrate that your proposed personal development will directly benefit your ability to deliver and lead your initiative.
- Be able to demonstrate how your initiative is an innovative approach to the social problem you are trying solve.
- Be able to provide contact details for a community referee and an expert referee who are familiar with your work and will support your Fellowship application.
- Be able to complete the Fellowship in 2023.
For more information, visit https://scholars.westpacgroup.com.au/scholarships/social-change-fellowship/#section2