Action Without Borders: Nonprofit and Public Policy Fellowships
A very useful comprehensive search for fellowships across the country. "Action Without Borders is a global network of individuals and organizations working to build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives."

American Prospect's Writing Fellows Program
"American Prospect Writing Fellowships support writers under 30 who show the potential to thrive as critical journalists and public intellectuals. Fellows will participate in seminars with leading journalists and work closely with American Prospect editors and contributors in developing their own work."

Americans for Informed Democracy (AID),
a non-profit organization that raises global awareness in the U.S., is now accepting applications from young leaders with a demonstrated interest in public service who seek to plan and coordinate a coalition to persuade their city's mayor to sign on to the Urban Environmental Accords (UEAs). AID is able to offer a stipend of $1,500 to each regional director for his or her involvement. AID seeks to work with communities in small to mid-size cities. To apply, you must be planning to stay the summer in your campus community (although you can work for another organization during that time) and would be expected to collaborate with community leaders and reach out to diverse community populations. Planning will take place during the Spring semester, with a conference in April and continued involvement at least through June.

Andover Teaching Fellowship Program
"At Andover on a one-year teaching fellowship, the recent college graduate (or graduate school degree recipient) is introduced to teaching in a program of guided work in the classroom, professional seminars, and exposure to theories and methods of experienced faculty. The school seeks applicants who are new to the vocation of teaching." This program includes the Andover Teaching Fellowship in Community Service: "The mission of Phillips Academy's Community Service Program is to develop partnerships between Phillips Academy and local agencies that meet critical needs in the community and provide educational opportunities for students and faculty. A Teaching Fellowship in Community Service allows recent college graduates to play a prominent role in running Phillips Academy's extensive Community Service program." Contact: Stephen D. Carter, Dean of Faculty, 978.749.4003, or Chad A. Green, Director of Community Service, 978.749.4139, cgreen@andover.edu.

Antipoverty Fellowship
"For almost 40 years, AmeriCorps*VISTA has helped communities implement efforts to bring individuals and communities out of poverty through sustainable solutions. Currently, focus areas for Fellows include: rural development, asset generation, and family strengthening. Fellows are expected to quickly master the issue area and provide critical analysis for enhancing impact and sustainability."

AEF Summer Fellowships
"The Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund ("AEF") awards summer fellowships each year to law students from around the nation. In 2003, AEF awarded five fellowships, averaging $3,300. The primary purpose of the fellowships is to fund a student's internship with a public interest organization that benefits either the Asian Pacific American community or the metropolitan Washington, D.C. community-at-large. Such organizations include governmental organizations and other non-profits serving the public interest. The internship must be unpaid (except for nominal payment for such items as transportation), arranged by the student, extend at least ten weeks or a total of 400 hours, and be based in the Greater Washington, D.C. Area."

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) Fellowships for graduate students
"The fellowship is designed to provide a unique opportunity to an outstanding graduate student who has a commitment to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and who plans to pursue a public policy career. The fellow will spend nine months in Washington, D.C., either in the office of a Congressional member, a Congressional committee or a federal agency."

Asian Pacific American Summer Fellowships
"The Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) will be awarding six scholarships to outstanding Asian Pacific American (APA) college undergraduates and one scholarship to a graduate student for internships in Washington, DC. The scholarships are intended to enable outstanding APA scholars with the potential for leadership, to work full-time and learn about ways to affect public policy that benefits APA communities."

The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program
"The program brings talented Latino, African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they work in congressional offices and learn about health policy. Through the nine-week program, scholars gain knowledge about federal legislative procedure and health policy issues, while further developing their critical thinking and leadership skills. In addition to an internship in a congressional office, scholars participate in seminars and site visits to augment their knowledge of healthcare issues and write and present a health policy research memo."

Boston Environmental Justice Leadership Program fellowships
The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) is soliciting applications from current undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent graduates for the summer Boston Environmental Justice Leadership Program (BEJL). This year's program offers nine paid internships in Boston-based environmental justice organizations. The BEJL Program helps promote a greater understanding of environmental equality, economic prosperity and equity for all people.

Boston Teacher Residency
Contact Jesse Solomon, Director, Boston Teacher Fellows, btr@bpe.org, 617-227-8055
"Boston Teacher Fellows (BTF) is an exciting new program to recruit, prepare and sustain Boston's next generation of teachers. BTF is a one-year teacher preparation program based in some of Boston's most effective schools. As a Fellow, you earn Massachusetts initial teacher certification and a Masters degree in Education. You receive a stipend for your service to a school and are eligible for an education award upon successful completion of the program."

Careers in the Common Good Fellowship Listings
Lists public service fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellows Program
"Each year the Endowment offers up to ten one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 200 colleges. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates."

Center for California Studies Capital Fellows Programs
"The Center administers the Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship, Executive Fellowship, Judicial Administration Fellowship, and California Senate Fellows programs. These programs, known collectively as the Capital Fellows Programs, are nationally recognized. The 18 Assembly Fellows, 18 Senate Fellows, 18 Executive Fellows and 10 Judicial Administration Fellows receive an outstanding opportunity to engage in public service and prepare for future careers, while actively contributing to the development and implementation of public policy in California."

Center for Democracy and Technology - Minority Fellowship Program
"The Center for Democracy and Technology offers a stipend to one qualified minority student each summer, supporting his or her work as one of CDT's Summer Policy Interns. The fellowship program, designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in cyber-liberties, Internet policy and CDT's other fields of work, is open to applicants from groups currently underrepresented in the technology and policy fields, including African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans."

Center for Progressive Leadership Programs
"CPL's programs are building a base of activists and candidates dedicated to reinvigorating our national commitment to progressive values such as creating economic opportunities for all, providing high-quality schooling for our children, protecting civil rights, and ensuring affordable health care for every American."


The Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence Fellowships
"The Center aims to support the next generation urban redevelopment leaders. The Center does this by placing talented early-career professionals in Fellowships with top redevelopment organizations nationwide. Fellows are employees of their host organizations for two years, during which they perform as project managers and receive mentorship from senior staff. The Center also enhances the Fellows' individual field experience with technical training, leadership development, and exposure to different markets, organization structures, and cases addressing both physical and non-physical redevelopment issues. Finally, by sharing their work with each other and reflecting on their own experiences in a structured way, the Fellows internalize this information and exposure more quickly than most practitioners. They emerge from the program able to use these experiences and insights as effective urban redevelopment entrepreneurs."

Century Institute Summer Fellowship Program
"The Century Institute Summer Program is a two-week fellowship designed to introduce undergraduate students to the progressive tradition in American public policy."

Charles H. Revson Fellows Program (Columbia University)
"Charles H. Revson Fellows Program allows ten urban activists, organizers, and community builders each year to become Revson Fellows at Columbia University, where they study, gain perspective, and join a growing network of leaders working to improve the city. They receive an $18,000 stipend and free tuition. There are no academic prerequisites and no degree requirements."

Citizen Schools Teaching Fellowship
"The Citizen Schools Teaching Fellowship, an AmeriCorps program, is a two-year professional development program for individuals with great leadership potential interested in gaining outstanding training and front line experience as out-of-school time educators and community organizers."

City Year: The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Public Service Fellowship
"The Fireman Public Service Fellowship at City Year is designed to provide an opportunity for a highly talented and committed member of the business, civic or governmental sectors, including recent graduates of MBA, MPP, MPA or other graduate programs, or those seeking a career change that would allow them to apply their talents to the civic sector, to take on a mission-critical initiative, or set of initiatives, at City Year’s national headquarters. The Fireman Fellow will work on projects that are essential to helping City Year achieve its organizational goals, and in the process, will gain practical experience in nonprofit management and social enterprise."

Civil Society Nonprofit Scholars Program
"Today, as in the past, American citizens form voluntary associations to promote public goods and stimulate democracy. Since the nation's well-being is closely connected to the health of its voluntary sector and how that sector contributes to civil society, this program will support individuals who wish to enhance our collective understanding of this central but under-researched aspect of American life."

Common Ground Fellowship in Creative Responses to Homelessness
"The mission of the Common Ground Creative Responses to Homelessness Fellowship is to assist recent college graduates (those who have graduated less than one year prior to the Fellowship start date) in developing the skills to end homelessness. The Fellowship achieves this mission by inviting Fellowship applicants to work for Common Ground and live in the Chelsea Residence, Common Ground's newest residence, for a twelve-month period. As residents of this facility, the Fellows are expected to take an active role in the community, and act as peer mentors for young adult residents."

Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy (Women's Research and Education Institute)
"WREI awards annual fellowships to a select number of graduate students with a proven commitment to equity for women. WREI Fellows gain practical policymaking experience and graduate credit."

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellows Program
"a leadership development program for graduate students, faculty members and seasoned professionals. During this nine-month program, Fellows work in Congressional Black Caucus offices and federal agencies and produce a public policy research paper."

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public Policy Fellowship
"Every year, the nine-month Fellowship Program (late August to late May) offers up to 21 promising Latinos from across the country the opportunity to gain hands-on experience at the national level in the public policy area of their choice."

Congressional Hunger Center Fellowships:
Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program
"The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, a project of the Congressional Hunger Center, is a unique leadership development opportunity for motivated individuals seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty."
Leland International Fellows Program
"The Congressional Hunger Center's Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program provides exceptional individuals the opportunity to work within a service capacity while simultaneously developing and refining skills important in the global fight against hunger."

Coro Foundation Fellows Program
"Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs is a full-time, graduate-level program in Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Participants (12 at each center) spend at least 50 hours a week in a series of internships, service projects and seminars."

Corporation for National Service Fellowships
Under the National Service Fellowship Program, the Corporation for National and Community Service supports individuals on ten-month fellowships to conduct projects to strengthen the field of national service. National Service Fellows engage in research resulting in resource manuals, curricula, methodologies, studies, websites, and other products that can help practitioners design and implement better national service programs.

Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights (Fordham Law School)
The Crowley Program is designed to raise human rights awareness in the law school community, to encourage students to develop their interest in international human rights and to give students and alumni the opportunity to engage directly in human rights lawyering. The Program's core elements include an annual student fact-finding mission to another country, a human rights lecture and brown bag series and raising awareness of human rights issues in the law school community. The students (the Crowley Scholars) involved in the mission participate in course work, independent research, assist in planning the mission, and work with the Crowley Fellow to write a post-mission report/law review article for the Fordham International Law Journal. The Crowley Program is administered by a fellow who is a law school graduate. The fellowship is a 13 month, full-time position, beginning in mid-August 2004 and ending in October 2005. Compensation is comparable with other post-J.D. public interest fellowships and includes benefits.

Democracy Fellows Program
"The World Learning Democracy Fellows Program (DFP), in collaboration with USAID, identifies, places, and supports Democracy Fellows throughout USAID. Democracy Fellows work in USAID's missions abroad or in Washington, D.C., and specific fellowships are based on the needs of the particular USAID sponsoring unit. Although fellowships are not intended for independent activities, such as individual research, they make a unique contribution to USAID democracy-related programming, while promoting fellows' careers and commitment to the cause of democracy development."

Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program
"Sustainability Institute (SI) is launching the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows program to honor and boost the effectiveness of people whose approach to sustainability displays analytic clarity, systemic change and attention to spirit, values, and meaning. Fellows, primarily women, will be selected for their potential to influence thinking in wide circles of people. Fellows will receive training and coaching in systems thinking and organizational learning. They will address environmental and social issues at two levels: 1) pragmatic projects in their current work settings, and 2) the systems "rules" of institutions and markets that influence the success of their projects."

Eisendrath Legislative Assistants Fellowship (Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism)
"Eisendrath Legislative Assistants (LAs) advocate in Washington, DC for Jewish values and Social Justice on behalf of the Reform Jewish Movement. LAs take part in a wide range of social action activities including monitoring legislative activity, developing synagogue social action programming, coordinating special events, creating educational materials, planning and running weekend conferences for teens, and mobilizing the grassroots of American Jewry."

Echoing Green Public Service Fellowships
"The Echoing Green Fellowship Program gives social change entrepreneurs tools and resources to start public service projects in fields including education, environment, arts, health, youth service, community/economic development, and civil rights."

El Pomar Fellowship in Leadership Development & Community Engagement
(Note: Applicants should have a Colorado connection, e.g. be a state resident, or have attended an in-state college/university, or have immediate family who are residents/past residents.)
"This is a two-year post-graduate program in leadership development and community service. Fellows work throughout the state of Colorado with the Foundation's grant-making program, operating programs, and outreach programs. Through their work in the community and numerous opportunities in professional development, Fellows learn about the nonprofit sector as well as the role of foundations."

Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship
"provides training, project support and a vibrant peer network to 25 talented and diverse individuals each year from all sectors of the environmental field, including nonprofits, business, government, and higher education."

EPA's Minority Academic Institutions Fellowship Program
"The programs were established to help promising students obtain advanced degrees and pursue environmental careers. The MAI programs support EPA's commitment to expand U.S. scientific knowledge about the environment, by training highly qualified environmental specialists for the future.Eligible undergraduate students will receive up to $17,000 per year of support for their junior and senior years of study and for an internship at an EPA facility during the summer between their junior and senior years."

Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Fellowships
"supports two Ph.D. dissertation fellowships of $24,000 for work in environmental public policy or environmental conflict resolution. Recipients must be in the final, writing year of their Ph.D. work and must submit a copy of their dissertation to the Udall Foundation at the end of the award year."

Evelyn Dubrow/UNITE! Fellowship (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance)
"This unique opportunity to work closely with community and labor leaders on important immigrant, labor, and civil rights issues is open to students, community activists, and workers with demonstrated leadership in supporting Asian Pacific American and/or labor issues."

Fascell Fellowship Program
"provides 1-2 year appointments in U.S. embassies or consulates for undergraduate or graduate students or other individuals with emphasis in International Affairs or Foreign Languages and working knowledge of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union."

Food and Society Policy Fellows
"A national program offered to improve communications about food and agriculture issues in the U.S. Food and Society Fellows use media, scholarship, public education, and outreach to promote change in the policies and structures that shape the U.S. food system. For 2004-05, the Institute is seeking fellows who can develop communication pieces that address the connections between youth, diet, health, and food production."

Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship (Enterprise Foundation)
"The Enterprise Foundation is a national nonprofit housing and community development organization, to promote architectural and community design in low- income communities and to encourage architects to become leaders in public service and community development. Fellows are expected to make a three-year commitment to work as part of a partner organization's staff. The partner organization must be a community development corporation (CDC) or other community-based organization (CBO) with 501(c)(3) status or a tribally designated housing entity (TDHE). It must also be a member of the Enterprise Foundation Network."

Future Leaders Fellows Program (The Population Institute)
"The program is a 1 year, paid, full-time professional development program. Sessions begin in July of each year. Positions include: 1-2 Public Policy Fellows, 1 Media Fellow, 1-2 Field Coordinators,1 World Population Awareness Week Fellow. Requirements: Demonstrated leadership qualities, international experiences and perspectives, good academic record, proficiency in a foreign language and strong communication skills."

Garvey Fellowship Program on Human Liberty
"Since 1974, the Olive W. Garvey Fellowship program has awarded fellowships biennially to outstanding college students around the world through a competitive essay contest focused on the meaning and significance of economic and personal liberty. Beginning with the 2003 contest, essay submissions may be made by both students and junior faculty members. Sponsored by the Independent Institute, the program aims to encourage critical thinking and educational excellence by examining the nature and relevance of human liberty."

Great Valley Fellows Program
"an intensive, experience-based program for outstanding young professionals aspiring to positions of leadership in public service. While the program operates in the context of the public affairs arena, the core focus is simply about excellence. This 11-month program takes place in California's vast Central Valley with a class of 16 Fellows recruited both locally and nationwide. Each Great Valley Fellow will complete a series of three consecutive 5-week apprenticeships in government, private industry and social organizations as well as participate in a rigorous training program for skill development in leadership, communication and personal effectiveness."

Green Corps' Environmental Leadership Training Program
"Green Corps' one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives you top-notch training to launch an organizing and advocacy career. In thirteen months, we will turn your passion for environmental change into the concrete skills and experiences it takes to be a leader in the environmental movement."

Greenlining Academy Fellowship
"The Academy Fellowship Program is an annual leadership training program for multi-ethnic students who have at minimum completed their undergraduate studies and want experience working on low-income and minority economic development."

Health Advocacy Fellowships
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"Medicare Rights Center is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare receive equitable access to health care.MRC seeks recent college graduates for a one-year or two-year Health Advocacy Fellowship to work in our Washington DC or Manhattan offices, beginning in July of 2003."

Health and Human Services Emerging Leaders Program
"If you are a dynamic, driven and achievement-oriented individual, get ready for an opportunity of a lifetime! This fantastic opportunity will include exposure to a number of Federal Programs that HHS oversees, and an opportunity to work on issues that are on the fore front of our nations needs. In this Program you will build a strong foundation of leadership, technical and strategic skills as well as participate in the development of internal strategies and planning for the organization—skills that are necessary to building and carrying out a national agenda."

Hearst Minority Fellowship
"The Hearst Minority Fellowship is designed to engage more minorities in the study of philanthropy through one of the graduate degrees offered by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.  Administered by the Center, the Hearst Fellowship is funded by a grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation."

Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
"The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship was established in 1987 to provide college graduates with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security. Twice yearly, the Fellowship's Board of Directors selects a group of outstanding individuals to spend six to nine months in Washington. Supported by a monthly stipend, the Fellows serve as full-time project assistants at the participating organization of their choice."

Human Rights Watch Fellowships
"For recent graduates of law schools or graduate programs in journalism, international relations or area studies from any university worldwide.Fellows work full time for one year with one or more divisions of Human Rights Watch, based in New York or Washington, DC. Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and engage in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations."

Humanity in Action
"Each summer HIA funds forty American students to participate in six-week educational programs that run concurrently in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris. These programs give fellows an unparalleled look at historical and contemporary human rights and minority rights issues."

Institute for Civic Leadership
"The Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL), is an intensive one-semester program for college women, designed to advance the civic leadership capacities and commitments of women and to promote the civic and democratic purposes of higher education. ICL attracts women from colleges across the country to participate in a supportive learning environment that is both intellectually rigorous and practically relevant. During the ICL semester, students examine the intellectual foundations of civic life and democracy in a diverse and multicultural context. Through internships, workshops, lecture series, and mentoring relationships, ICL students also develop the strategies and concrete skills needed for civic engagement and civic leadership. ICL's program takes place each fall semester."

Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program (United Negro College Fund and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute)
"The IIPP Fellowship program provides students with specially designed education and training experiences critical to entry and advancement in international affairs careers. Students are recruited from across the nation and apply as sophomores to participate in a five-year sequence of summer policy institutes, study abroad, intensive language training, internships, and graduate study."

Institute for Political Service
"The Institute for Political Service (IPS) is a rigorous 8-week summer political fellowship program unlike any in the country. Held in Boston, MA, it is a unique summer program for young idealistic leaders that equips them with the tools, resources, support, and network necessary to pursue honorable careers in political service."

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research Fellowships
"Institute for Women's Policy Research Fellowships assist in the professional development of students and graduates interested in equal opportunity and economic and social justice for women. Fellows spend nine months working with research staff or communications staff at IWPR. Fellows receive a monthly stipend and health insurance."

Intercollegiate Studies Institute Fellowship Programs
"The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is to convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free society. Founded in 1953, ISI works "to educate for liberty" — to identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered liberty. To accomplish this goal, ISI seeks to enhance the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles -- limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and Judeo-Christian moral standards."

The Interfaith Service House Fellows
"During the past two years, the Interfaith Service House has been a place for young people (ages 21-27)from different parts of the world come together to explore the nexus between faith, social justice and the common good. Sponsored by the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, interreligious dialogue is a fundamental theme to the program."

Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program
"The Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University advances and renews interest in public service by engaging recent college graduates in intensive study and voluntary service. This comprehensive 10-month program is an exciting and challenging opportunity for students to explore numerous levels of service, social action, and leadership in the government, philanthropic and market sectors."

Jewish Campus Service Corps (JCSC)
"..is a one- to two-year, paid fellowship for recent college graduates. Steinhardt JCSC Fellows work on campuses throughout North America and in Israel, sharing their passion for Jewish living by engaging first-year students, members of fraternities and sororities, graduate students, and others not typically involved in Jewish life."

Jewish Organizing Initiative
"Jewish Organizing Initiative provides Jewish young adults with one-year paid fellowships in community organizing. Fellows are trained in organizing skills and educated in Judaism's religious, ethical, and historical tradition of working with groups for social and economic justice."

Kaiser Family Foundation Scholars Program
"The Scholars Program brings talented African American, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, DC, where they work in congressional offices and learn about health policy. The nine-week program (June 1-July 30, 2004), exposes scholars to federal legislative procedure and health policy issues, while further developing their critical thinking and leadership skills."

Kip Tiernan Education and Social Justice Fellowship at Rosie's Place
Rosie's Place offers the Kip Tiernan Education and Social Justice Fellowship in honor of its founder. This 12 month fellowship provides a generous stipend and health benefits and will be awarded annually to an individual who develops and carries out a project that will benefit poor and homeless women. Concept papers due December 1st. Fellowship will be awarded in the spring/summer of 2005. For inquiries and/or application, contact: Fellowship, Rosie's Place, 889 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118. or smarsh@rosies.org.

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Legal Fellowship
A new program to promote education, the practice of public interest law, and diversity in the legal profession. The award is sponsored by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, a client development company for the legal profession. The program awards two $15,000 grants each year-one in the summer and one in the winter-to individuals or nonprofit organizations whose applications are selected by the company's Legal Fellowship committee.

Los Angeles Unified Urban Education Research Fellows
"Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second largest school district, has established the Urban Education Research Fellows Program to support the development of promising urban education scholars. The educational research unit of LAUSD-the Program Evaluation and Research Branch-will provide two candidates each year with professional development and financial support. Applicants must be graduate students at accredited universities in California."

Massachusetts Promise Fellows
"The AmeriCorps Promise Fellowships will create new leaders dedicated to service, making their own contribution - their own promise to America's youth."

Mathematica Policy Research Summer Fellowships
".. are for students in Master's or Ph.D. programs in public policy or social science. Four fellows work for a summer in either Princeton, NJ or Washington, DC on independent research on a policy issue of relevance to the economic and social problems of minority groups."

Mayoral Fellowship Program (Providence, RI)
"This program gives students a unique opportunity to learn about Providence City government. The Fellows come to understand the enormous variety and complexity of City government through work experiences and weekly discussion. The ten-week program combines full-time employment in City government with a seminar series exploring the mechanics of local government, as well as important challenges facing the City. The Fellows receive a taxable stipend of $2000 for ten weeks."

Mike M. Masaoka Fellowship
"The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) established the Mike M. Masaoka Fellowship Fund in 1988 to honor Mike M. Masaoka (1915-1991) for a lifetime of outstanding public service in promoting justice, civil rights and human dignity."

National Fellows in Leadership Program
"...is structured to help college graduates from ages 20-29 to integrate their faith and their vocation. The program is an educational experience for recent college or master’s level graduates (ages 20-29), who live and work in the Washington, DC area, and who have demonstrated both leadership qualities and a commitment to Christian discipleship.The National Fellows in Leadership program is developing young leaders through intellectual inquiry, spiritual discipline and practical application.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Awards, Fellowships, Scholarships Listings
An extensive list of resources for finding awards and fellowships relating to service work.

National Urban/Rural Fellows Program
"National Urban/Rural Fellows Program is a graduate fellowship that offers mid-career professionals a fourteen month academic program combined with a practical "hands-on" nine month mentorship with a senior public administrator. The Fellowship is conducted in partnership with the City University of New York and culminates in a Master of Public Administration. In addition to a 20,000 stipend, fellows receive full payment of tuition, relocation allowance, book allowance, and reimbursement for program related travel."

The National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Fellowship Program
"A nationally recognized opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue their vision of an ecologically sustainable future. Through tangible projects to green their campuses and communities, Fellows gain practical experience in the conservation field and first-hand knowledge of the challenges and opportunities inherent in successful conservation efforts."

New Voices Fellowships
"a national leadership development program that helps nonprofit organizations recruit or retain innovative, new talent. It awards salary-support grants to small nonprofits demonstrating a commitment to cultivating and strengthening the leadership potential of creative and diverse "new voices" in the field."

NYC Housing and Community Development Fellowship Program
"introduces recent college graduates to housing and community development issues in New York City. Fellows work for six months in three different offices at HPD, learning about the agency's efforts to revitalize neighborhoods through construction, renovation, code enforcement, litigation, as well as outreach and loans to private owners. Fellows meet each week to learn about each other's positions, discuss job concerns, and talk about housing policy. Fellows receive a living stipend of $32,000 along with health benefits." (sponsored by NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development)

NYC Teaching Fellows Program
The NYC Teaching Fellows program offers individuals who do not have a background in education the opportunity to change careers and take a streamlined route into classrooms across the city. To help prepare these individuals for the challenges of teaching, accepted candidates participate in an intensive pre-service training program and pursue a Master's degree in Education. Candidates must meet a number of eligibility requirements to be considered for the program, including a Bachelor's degree and excellence in their previous endeavors.

NYC Urban Fellows Program
"The New York City Urban Fellows Program has introduced America's finest college graduates to local government and public service. The program is dedicated to the memory of Robert F. Wagner Jr. and was initiated to offer aspiring public policymakers the opportunity to grapple first hand with contemporary urban issues."

Open Spciety Institute Community Fellowships Program
"The Open Society Institute (OSI) established the Community Fellowships Program to encourage and support individuals creating innovative public interest projects that address critical social issues. The goal of the program is to provide individuals with an opportunity to apply their leadership in community-led projects to empower and improve the quality of public life. The program identifies and supports social change agents who engage their passion, ingenuity, and dynamism to remove social barriers by creating new opportunities for disadvantaged and marginalized communities."

Oxfam America CHANGE Initiative
"The CHANGE Initiative aims to develop capable and confident young leaders, who are informed and active agents for positive social change, and who inspire greater global awareness in others. Oxfam America is looking for a diverse group of undergraduate students, rising sophomores and juniors, committed to global social justice issues."

Pedro Zamora AIDS Public Policy Fellowship
"...at AIDS Action in New York City provides an opportunity for young adults (ages 18-28) to participate in the development of federal HIV/AIDS policy. The program is designed to develop skills in advocacy, public policy and grassroots organizing. Fellowships range from 10 to 26 weeks in the spring, summer or fall."

Population Connection Fellowships
"Population Connection offers fellowships in Washington DC to college graduates, graduate students, and undergraduates with a special interest in population issues. Each fellow has a responsible role working with a specific department (eg, outreach, government relations, communications, etc.). Fellowships are full-time and offered in two 6 month sessions. Population Connection was formerly Zero Population Growth."

Public Allies
"Through our core program, Public Allies advances the skills, networks and experience of diverse young leaders as they strengthen communities, nonprofits and civic participation. Public Allies selects our communities' most promising young leaders who commit to a rigorous and rewarding ten-month program of full-time, paid apprenticeships in community orginizations, team service projects and weekly leadership training."

Public Interest Law Fellowship at Harvard Law School
"The Office of Public Interest Advising at Harvard Law School seeks undergraduates to work as Public Interest Fellows for the summer. Our office, staffed by experienced attorneys, counsels hundreds of law students and alumni/ae interested in pursuing public service work. The job offers great exposure to the legal profession, particularly for someone contemplating a career in public interest law."

Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Fellowships
"The goal of a PIRG Fellowship is to help develop leaders for the public interest movement. You might see yourself becoming a field organizer, advocate—or even director of a public interest group someday."

Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program
"The Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program (PPIA Fellowship Program) works to promote, recruit and train a generation of culturally diverse professionals dedicated to public service for a changing nation and world at local, national, and international levels. Applicants must be in their junior year of undergraduate study and demonstrate a strong interest in public service.  Awards include a free ride to one of PPIA’s Junior Summer Institutes plus stipend, opportunities for paid internship, and a minimum of $5000 scholarship for a graduate program under our consortium list." Contact 202-496-0130 ext 206 or ppia@ppiaprogram.org

Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowships
"The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation works to identify and nurture individuals who will make a significant environmental impact and to support projects that will have direct, early, and measurable results in improving the quality of the natural environment." (Note: Open only to graduate students in New England and California)

Rose Architectural Fellowships
"A program of the Enterprise Foundation, the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship is designed to promote architectural and community design in low-income neighborhoods. The fellowship fosters productive partnerships between architects and community development organizations and encourages architects to become lifelong leaders in public service and community development."

Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
"Samuel Huntington Public Service Award supports graduating seniors to pursue their own public service project anywhere in the world. Proposals can be undertaken independently or working through an established organization. The award is a $10,000 stipend for 6 months to a year."

Steppingstone Fellowship
"In 1995, The Steppingstone Fellowship was created to provide teaching and administrative experience to recent college graduates interested in exploring a career in the field of education. The Fellowship is a two-year commitment, beginning in September. During the first year, the Steppingstone Fellow focuses on admissions, while teaching and advising the Scholars. During the second year, the Fellow helps coordinate the 14-month academic program while serving as a resource for the first-year Fellow. In addition, the Fellow has the opportunity to take one graduate-level course in education."

United Way Community Fellows Program
"The Community Fellows Program offers recent college graduates an extraordinary opportunity to work for United Way, one of the most recognized philanthropic non-profit organizations in the nation. Becoming a successful Fellow in the program provides committed professionals a unique opportunity to improve the lives of others and launch a career with United Way."

United Way Rural Service Fellows
"The goal of the United Way Rural Service Fellows Program is to help address the health and human service needs of the low-income rural residents of Upstate New York. Rural Fellows' host sites represent a range of issues from literacy to mental health, childcare to food pantries, and is designed to help build the service capacity of the participating nonprofits. Fellows serving on the program will learn community development strategies, hone leadership talents and gain important nonprofit skills in a specific service area."

Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program
"The Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota is currently accepting applications for approximately 20 fellowship grants to residents of the Upper Midwest--including students, teachers, lawyers, other professionals, community leaders, activists, and others--to undertake practical experience in human rights organizations. The Fellowship Program is designed to promote human rights by providing practical training in the varied aspects of human rights work worldwide; in addition to training for the individual participants, placements provide assistance to the organizations."

Vaid Policy Fellowship of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
"Policy Institute recognizes the leadership of undergraduates and graduate students as emerging leaders in the progressive movement for GLBT equality. Fellows are generally located in New York City and focus on policy and social science research, communications and public information or strategic initiatives. Fellows receive a weekly stipend of $400 over a 14 week period."

Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice
The Wellstone Fellowship is a year-long, full-time, salaried position that will begin in September 2004. The fellow will be engaged in health care advocacy work in Families USA's office in Washington, D.C., where he or she will learn about Medicare, Medicaid, efforts to achieve universal coverage, and other important health policy issues. Specifically, the fellow will be engaged in Families USA's outreach to and mobilization of communities of color. Through this work, the fellow will also learn about conducting health care campaigns, and part of his or her time will be spent working with state-based health care advocacy organizations.

White House Fellowships
"Founded in 1964, the program is designed to offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. White House Fellows typically spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House staff, the vice president, cabinet secretaries, and other government officials."

The Wilcox Fellows Program at Concord Academy
"The Program is designed to introduce talented candidates of color interested in working in independent schools to the craft and challenges of the teaching profession. Working in conjunction with a mentor teacher, who has been granted substantial release time to provide ongoing guidance and support, this Fellow will teach one quarter of a normal fulltime load (one section per semester) and join in the work of the school&Mac226;s Office of Diversity and Equity."

Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program
"Since 1983, the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program has enabled law graduates with a special interest in women's rights to work in the nation's capital on legal and policy issues affecting women."