Soros Equality Fellowship – Jan 31

Posted by Open Society Foundations on December 19, 2023

Open Society Foundations invites applications for Soros Equality Fellowship

Open Society Foundations invites applications for its Soros Equality Fellowship program to support individual leaders influencing the racial justice field.

The fellowship is designed to be flexible and open—a space to incubate new ideas, promote risk taking, and develop different thinking methods that challenge and expand our existing assumptions. A successful project should identify a challenge and propose a critical intervention that will meaningfully address the systems that reinforce inequities and discrimination in the United States. Through the fellowship, Open Society aims to establish a network of leaders, representing the diversity of experiences, with the resources to address racial inequality and the space they need to imagine a more equitable future.

Fellows typically receive a stipend of roughly $130,000 over the 18-month fellowship in support of expenses related to the project.

Applicants must be able to devote at least 35 hours a week to the project if awarded a fellowship, and the project must be the applicant’s only full-time work during the fellowship. Fellows cannot be full-time students during their fellowship. In addition, if awarded a fellowship, applicants must be available to attend a set of activities during the fellowship term: New Fellows Orientation (tentatively set for fall 2024); the Soros Equality Fellowship retreat (tentatively set for early 2024); fellowship class network calls; and a Rockwood Leadership Institute training. The exact dates and location will be confirmed upon fellowship selection. Some or all of these activities may be virtual.

Applicants may be based outside the United States, provided their work directly pertains to a U.S. racial justice issue and can demonstrate proficiency in spoken and written English.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Open Society Foundations website.

Deadline: January 31, 2024