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The Echoing Green is pleased to announce the 2022 Fellowship to help build and shift power in their communities, advance inclusive and intersectional solutions, and fuel radical leaps of imagination that transform systems and fuel social movements.

This bursary is aimed at people whose businesses are at an early stage and who are experts in the challenge they have chosen to tackle. They are looking for leaders who reflect the community that they serve and bring an in-depth knowledge of the issues to their work while devising solutions with and for their communities.

• Build and move power. They support close leaders who disrupt the status quo by changing power dynamics. The best innovators use their clear understanding of the problem to develop the sharpest solutions. They look for leaders who show how their idea will transfer power to the people most affected by their company's results.
• Intersectional approaches to resources. Trying to understand inequality through a single identity can lead to a misunderstanding of its impact and exclude people from solutions.
• Fuelling the radical imagination. The community is inspired by the idea that, collectively, they can help build a world that hasn't yet existed - where everyone can flourish. Radical leaps of imagination can fuel social movements and transformational change.

• You don't have You do not need to be based in the United States or be an American citizen. They encourage applicants of all nationalities, working in any country, to apply for the scholarship. Echoing Green does not sponsor US work permits for foreign nationals.
• Not only must an organisation be run by one person, but only one candidate is eligible to apply for an Echoing Green scholarship from 2021.
• Echoing Green has no educational requirements to apply for a scholarship.
• All organisational structures are eligible for an Echoing Green grant as long as they are focused on social impact.
• Organisations still in the idea stage are eligible. You do not need to establish 501 (c) (3) status or register your organisation before applying.
• Candidate eligibility
  • Ech Oing Green Fellowship candidates must be 18 years of age or older before February 28, 2022.
  • For b e eligible for the bursary and participate fully in the programming offer and supportYou must be able to communicate proficiently in English. Support throughout the Echoing Green scholarship is provided in English.
  • They use the term "original founder" to describe people who have launched or are launching an organisation that is their original idea. You cannot have held an executive position within the organisation after it was founded. To be eligible, you must be a leader with decision-making power within the organisation and be either :
    • only one founder or
    • one of the main founders of a team of people who created the organisation.
  • To be eligible for an Echoing Green scholarship, applicants must be the key decision-maker and have ultimate authority over the growth and strategic vision of your organisation.
  • If you are selected for an Echoing Green scholarship, you can take on other professional responsibilities, but you must work full-time, defined here as 40 hours. per week, on the work described in your grant application, and this must remain your top professional priority.
• Eligibility of the organisation
  • Organisations that are independent but have fiscal sponsors are eligible for the Echoing Green grant as long as the fiscal sponsor has no authority over the work and decision-making of the organisation.
  • To be eligible for an Echoing Green bursary, you must be able to make and act on the organisational decisions of your choice. If other organisations or entities manage or hold decision-making power for your proposed organisation, you may not be eligible. Organisations that are independent but have fiscal sponsors may be eligible as long as the fiscal sponsor has no authority over the work and decision-making of the organisation.
  • Echoing Green is looking for applicants who need funding to launch or develop their organisation. They generally describe start-up organisations or ideas as those that :
    • have worked with full-time staff for less than five years, or
    • still need resources to grow and sustain their business.
  • According to the US Internal Revenue Service, Echoing Green may not distribute funds to organisations whose primary purpose is lobbying. Lobbying is defined as activities that seek to support specific political candidates, specific political parties, or to induce action on specific bills. Issue advocacy, defined as the attempt to bring about political action using methods such as civic education and public campaigning, is not considered lobbying. For more details, please see the IRS definition here: irs.gov/charities-non-profits/lobbying.
  • To be eligible for an Echoing Green bursary, the organisation cannot engage in recruitment, promotion or conversion on behalf of a specific religious faith in your constituency. If your organisation's work has a spiritual element or works with existing faith communities but does not promote or recruit on behalf of that faith, you may be eligible.
  • For you and your organisation to be eligible for an Echoing Green bursary, no founding team member and no person in a management position cannot be an Echoing Green scholarship holder.