2023-2025 Emerging Leader Fellowship in Pennsylvania - fundsforNGOs

The Stoneleigh Foundation is seeking applications from nonprofit, academic, and public sector organizations that are interested in hosting an Emerging Leader Fellowship focused on addressing gun violence from a policy, practice, research, advocacy, organizing, or communications lens.

Donor Name: Stoneleigh Foundation

State: Pennsylvania

City: Philadelphia

Type of Grant: Fellowship

Deadline: 01/13/2023

Grant Duration: 2 years

Details:

The Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellowship is a two-year, full-time, hands-on position for early career professionals. Fellows work collaboratively with a host organization and the Stoneleigh Foundation to execute a project that advances the missions of these organizations and enhances Fellows’ professional skills and leadership development. The Fellowship provides salary, benefits, and a stipend for professional development.

To that end, the foundation will focus the work of the next cohort of Emerging Leader Fellows on the enormously challenging and complex issues related to gun violence. The types of projects they will consider include, but are not limited to:

Projects that meaningfully engage and center the perspectives and voices of communities and individuals with lived experience of gun violence and its effects.
Projects that emphasize a public health approach to gun violence prevention and/or research that evaluates the impact of related programs.
Projects that identify and address the primary drivers of firearm violence.
Projects that explore and address motivations and barriers to firearm ownership and possession among youth.
Projects that explore the regional variation of gun violence in Philadelphia neighborhoods and communities and how the cultural context informs gun violence and its effects.

Summary Guidelines

Project summaries should be limited to two pages, 12-point font. Summaries should include the following sections: