Job’o’th’Week (Fellowship Edition)
Project-Based Fellowships
The summer is the best time to begin searching for project-based fellowship opportunities. Project-based fellowships provide recent graduates with the chance to design a program to address an unmet legal need. Using funding from an external source, fellows partner with a host organization to implement their program. Because there is both a funding organization and a host organization, the process for securing a project-based fellowship requires separate applications to the host and funding organizations.
Skadden and Equal Justice Works are two of the largest national funding sources for project-based fellowships. And both are accepting project proposals!
Because both of these organizations have early fall deadlines, host organizations are seeking fellowship candidates now! This gives the host organizations time to find the right candidates and help you design a project proposal to submit for funding.
To look for organizations that are seeking to host and fund fellows for project-based fellowships, use this filtered search.
(NOTE: There are funding sources other than Equal Justice Works and Skadden, so be on the lookout for those as well!)
In the Resource Center, you can also use the Fellowship Calendar to browse project-based fellowship opportunities in a calendar view, sorted by either post date or application deadline. Click here for a filtered view of the calendar.