NEW YORK | Seeds of Peace is launching a year-long fellowship to support local social change endeavors that have the potential to positively impact the dynamics of conflict in and between communities.
The GATHER Fellowship offers technical and financial assistance to select emerging leaders who demonstrate the greatest leadership and entrepreneurial potential to make positive differences in their home communities, and who have taken concrete steps to further their goals.
The program is part of a three-year Commitment to Action in support of 60 Fellows that is being announced by Seeds of Peace Executive Director Leslie Lewin at the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative in Morocco in May.
The Fellowship builds on the success of GATHER+962, a Seeds of Peace summit that convened over 200 changemakers from more than 20 countries in Jordan earlier this year. It is made possible by support from the Pershing Square Foundation, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, the Moses Feldman Family Foundation, and Red Sea Ventures.
GATHER Fellows will benefit from an individually-tailored leadership development curriculum that offers coaching, trainings, networking, and opportunities for them to engage with their local community. The curriculum is designed in collaboration with a team of experts and knowledge partners, and is guided by the Fellows’ own goals. Fellows also receive a stipend to support their initiatives and leadership development.
The 2015 Fellowship starts in June and includes a retreat in London in the Fall that offers learning opportunities on topics such as effective team-building, design thinking, leveraging technology in startups, pitching, fund-raising, storytelling, and public speaking.
The retreat provides access to London’s world-class network of investors, businesses, social change organizations, and influential leaders, through presentations and networking opportunities.
The GATHER Fellowship is open to alumni of Seeds of Peace and other emerging leaders with compelling local social change projects.