Echoing Green Fellowship
A competitive fellowship for founders at the earliest stage of a social-change organization, giving $100,000 in seed funding over 18 months plus leadership support. Useful for building the capacity to document and evaluate your own work.
- Indicative award
- $100k stipend (stipend)The site states fellows receive a seed funding stipend of $100,000 over 18 months. For for-profit organizations the funding takes the form of a recoverable grant.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Runs on an annual cycle. As of this check the 2026 Fellowship application is closed and 2026 fellows are notified in June/July 2026. The next opening date is not published; the site offers an updates sign-up. Late submissions are refused without exception.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Practitioner, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- You must be an original founder or leading founding team member with decision-making authority, 18+ by June 1 2026, able to work 40+ hours a week on the project. The organization must be early-stage and independent. Lobbying-primary and faith-recruiting organizations are excluded, as are past Echoing Green Fellows.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- social entrepreneurship · seed funding · early-stage organizations · leadership development
- Apply at
- https://www.echoinggreen.org/fellowship/apply/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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