Echoing Green Fellowship 2025 for emerging Social Entrepreneurs

Sep 17, 2024

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Applications are now open for the 2024 Echoing Green Fellowship.Echoing Green supports bold leaders from around the world who see possibility in the face of today’s most existential challenges.

Together, we strive to create a world that does not yet exist: a future free of racism and its far-reaching consequences, in which all people can thrive.

This Fellowship is for people whose businesses are in their early stages and who are experts in the challenge they’ve chosen to tackle.

We seek leaders who reflect the community they serve and bring extensive knowledge of the issues to their work as they collaborate to develop solutions with and for their communities.

Through the Echoing Green Fellowship, we find innovators, mobilizers, community organizers, and social justice leaders working on a plan to make the world better in a big way.

Then Echoing Green will help them grow their impact by connecting them with the tools, resources, and communities they need to bring their ideas to life.

Application Eligibility

Will you be 18 years or older by the time you begin the Fellowship?
- Echoing Green Fellowship applicants must be 18 years or older by June 1, 2025.
Are you able to communicate proficiently in English?
- To be eligible for the Fellowship and fully participate in programming and support offerings, you must be able to proficiently communicate in English. Support throughout the Echoing Green Fellowship is offered in English. Please note that reasonable accommodations will be made to support the full participation of those with visual, hearing or speech impairments.

Organization Eligibility

Does your proposed organization have a parent organization?
- Organizations that are independent but have fiscal sponsors are eligible for the Echoing Green Fellowship as long as the fiscal sponsor has no authority over the organization’s work and decision making.
Does your proposed organization operate independently and autonomously from your parent organization?
- To be eligible for an Echoing Green Fellowship, you must be able to make and act on organizational decisions of your own choosing. If other organizations or entities manage or hold decision-making authority for your proposed organization, you may not be eligible. Organizations that are independent but have fiscal sponsors may be eligible as long as the fiscal sponsor has no authority over the organization’s work and decision making.

Application Timeline