[January 2024]
In 2024, aspiring individuals passionate about driving positive change through NGOs have several leading development fellowship programs to consider for application. These programs offer a unique opportunity to engage with impactful projects, gain hands-on experience, and contribute to the social and economic development of communities worldwide.
From organizations such as the NGO Whisperer® Global Fellowship, Acumen Fellows Program, to the Gratitude Network Fellowship Program , these initiatives provide a platform for emerging leaders to develop their skills, expand their networks, and make a lasting impact on global challenges.
If you are ready to make a difference and enhance your career in the non-profit sector, consider exploring these esteemed fellowship opportunities in 2024.
The NGO Whisperer® 2024 Global Fellowship: 50 Scholarships for NGO Leaders Worldwide
Deadline: 31-Mar-24
The NGO Whisperer® Global Fellowship Programme is an accredited six-month rigorous virtual leadership programme for exceptional leaders and founders of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and social enterprises worldwide, especially those from low and middle-income countries.
Objectives
- To build the capacity of professionals from small and medium-sized Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Social Enterprises who are already in positions of leadership and influence to further enhance and expand their knowledge, skills, and expertise;
- To provide high-impact training, professional development, and cross-cultural opportunities for NGOs and Social Enterprises across the globe especially in low- and middle-income countries;
- To create a global community of leaders, influencers, and decision-makers, who are focused on designing and implementing high-impact programmes that contribute building a sustainable world.
Gratitude Network Fellowship Program
Deadline: 18-Feb-24
Gratitude Network’s Fellowship is a free 1 year program for non-profit leaders and their organizations anywhere around the world. The program builds leaders’ confidence and capabilities and provides tools and processes for expanding the organization’s impact.
Gratitude Network Fellows have increased leadership confidence and lead more effectively. They have more aligned teams ready to execute a multi-year strategic plan to take the organization to their next level – ultimately increasing the children and youth they impact.
Each year, the Gratitude Network conducts a global search for established, social impact leaders who demonstrate a proven organization model serving children and youth who are committed to leadership growth and ready to take their organization to the next level.
Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship Program
Deadline: 8-Mar-24
The Study of the U.S. Branch (ECA/A/E/USS), Office of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) invites proposal submissions for one cooperative agreement to design, administer, and implement the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship Program.
The YSEALI is designed to strengthen leadership development across Southeast Asia, deepen engagement with young leaders on key regional and global challenges, and strengthen people-to- people ties between the United States and Southeast Asia. YSEALI, which began in 2013, is a broad U.S. government initiative with a range of components that include educational exchanges, professional skills-building workshops in the region, online networking, project seed money, and professional seminars at the YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam.
Professional Fellows Program – Advancing Young Women in Agribusiness
Deadline: 16-Feb-24
The Advancing Young Women Professional Fellows Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by Michigan State University (US), University of Rwanda (Rwanda), University of Pretoria (South Africa), University of Zambia (Zambia) and Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe).
The goal of the program is to build Fellows’ capacity and skills in agro-entrepreneurship and agri-food system innovation and advance their ability to support women’s economic empowerment. Rwandan, South African, Zambian and Zimbabwean Fellows will develop their leadership capacity and professional skills through a fully funded five-week fellowship program in the U.S.
East Africa Acumen Fellowship
Deadline: 4 February 2024
The East Africa Acumen Fellowship is a rigorous leadership program that brings together a cohort of extraordinary individuals working on problems of poverty and equips them with the knowledge, skills, and community to strengthen their leadership and scale their impact to create meaningful change in East Africa.
The Fellowship looks for “builders” who are working to solve problems of poverty. Builders* include founders, CEOs, and senior leaders (COO, MD, etc.) at for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid social enterprises as well as corporate or government sector intrapreneurs. While these titles offer a glimpse of the types of roles Fellows play, what matters most is what you’re building and the track record of your impact.
AIF’s Banyan Impact Fellowship – Service in India 2024-25
Deadline: 20-Feb-24
The AIF Banyan Impact Fellowship is an immersive bi-national volunteer service program with immense strategic importance in the US-India corridor. By facilitating exchange and collaboration between young professionals from India and the US, the program aims to shape the next generation of leaders committed to positive and sustainable change and creating a lasting US-India relationship by broadening the existing constituency of future leaders, civil society and other stakeholders.
Starting 2022, in addition to supporting service opportunities for Indians and Americans across Indian civil society organizations, the Fellowship Program will send social change professionals from India to serve across organizations in the US for capacity building and leadership development, thereby furthering the program’s mission of creating lasting ties between India and the US.
Visiting Fellowship Grant in Australia
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Expressions of Interest are invited from organisations/institutions wishing to invite a leading expert in an area relevant to health promotion research or practice to WA for a period of up to three (3) months to work with local health promotion groups.
The program aims to increase the WA workforce’s skills and expertise to deliver evidence-based health promotion and contribute to health promotion policy and practice in WA. The Visiting Fellow will have health promotion experience and skills which will benefit the local research and health promotion community, disciplines outside health promotion, and other relevant organisations, including state and local government, and not-for-profit agencies.