Ashoka invests in leading social entrepreneurs and provide these entrepreneurs — Ashoka Fellows — a living stipend for an average of three years, allowing them to focus full-time on building their institutions and spreading their ideas. Ashoka also provides the Fellows with a global support network of their peers and partnerships with professional consultants.

Ashoka

International fellowship programme for nonprofit leaders to New York or to Bogota including a one-week training and a 50-week volunteer position at an outstanding non-profit organisation.  The Programme is launched two times a year; classes usually begin in March and September.

Atlas Corps

The Fund will honor the achievements and further strengthen the abilities of emerging leaders in the Eurasia region. Targeting emerging leaders with little or no previous experience abroad, Eurasia Foundation will support young leaders who show a strong potential for future growth, giving them opportunities for network- and capacity-building overseas.

Eurasia Foundation

Professional development programme for young executives from the public sector (public administration, public companies, non-profit organizations, etc.) from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Scholarship holders receive the opportunity to gain in-depth experience of life and work in Germany as well as to form new sustainable contacts in order to improve their qualifications.

Robert Bosch Stiftung

Cranfield Trust MBA Scholarships for the Voluntary Sector

The Cranfield School of Management and the Cranfield Trust offer scholarships for candidates working for a European charitable, voluntary organisation – involved in issues of poverty, disability or social exclusion – in order to participate in the Executive MBA Programme of the University.

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Euclid Network's (EN) Erasmus for Social Entrepreneurs project enables EN members to spend one month at social enterprises across Europe. During the scheme, participants will learn about social enterprise, develop projects and form long-term partnerships. The programme is funded by DG Enterprise and Industry as part of its Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs scheme, which was piloted for the first time last year.

Euclid Network

Executive MBA Fellowship Program for non-profit, minority and women-owned businesses. The fellowships cover 50 percent of the programme’s tuition.

Tulane University

The Freeman School of Business

Individual support available upon request to individuals for participating in big civil society events, conferences, seminars or workshops.  The individuals should be invited as speakers, moderators or active participants in discussions.

Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe

CEE Trust

Ford Motor Company International Fellowship Programme

Annual fellowship programme for emerging leaders from Armenia, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, India, Israel, Laos, Mali, Russia, Slovakia aiming at providing education and support to those engaged in the non-profit sector.

92nd Street Y & Ford Motors Company International

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) awards annually up to ten German Chancellor Fellowships in each country to young, prospective leaders from the USA, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. The fellows must have shown outstanding potential for future leadership in their previous careers. The programme addresses applicants from all professions and fields of study, giving preference to the humanities, law, social and economic sciences.

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

The Kokkalis Program strives to support individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in Southeastern and East-Central Europe by providing fellowships for study at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Eligible to apply for a Kokkalis Fellowship are natives of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.

Harvard Kennedy School

Fellowship is available for academic scholars, with a clear research interest in the nonprofit sector, or philanthropy as well as for senior practitioners from nonprofit organisations or foundations, with an interest in reflection and research.

Rupert-Karl Universität Heidelberg

Centre for Social Investment

International fellowship programme for the next generation of community-spirited leaders. This two-year programme is a series of four seminars and a mix of intellectual and personal development classes, designed to broaden the perspectives of the participants and hone their skills in values-based leadership.

The Aspen Institute

The Emerging Leader International Fellows Programme is open to young scholars and practitioners interested in building third-sector capacity in their home countries or regions.

The Senior International Fellows Programme provides an opportunity for the professional development of Third-Sector practitioners from outside the United States who are decision-makers in their professions.

Fellows attend weekly seminars, explore the work of key agencies and foundations, meet with non-profit representatives and study U.S. and international foundation models.

The City University of New York Centre on Philanthropy and Civil Society

The Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for emerging leaders from the United States and Europe (from 22 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Spain, and Turkey) to explore societies, institutions, and people on the other side of the Atlantic. GMF accepts candidates in politics, government, the media, business and the non-profit sector.

German Marshall Fund of the United States

International fellowship programme for WINGS network participants, involving three to five visit of one organisation to the other within the network. The goals of the programme are to have the opportunity for mutual exchange and learning as well as sharing learning with the WINGS network.

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The Fellowship funds programmes of professional development, hosted by an organisation in the UK for three months. The programme is designed to enhance the Fellows’ skills and knowledge within their professional sphere and it provides learning that covers:

·    Areas of best practice with the Fellow’s home employer

·    Attendance at conferences and short course

·      Useful networking opportunities

Fellow applications are currently welcomed from charities and NGOs of any size.

The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission

The programme promotes advanced study, research, and training at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies for participants who are involved in studying private, nonprofit or philanthropic organizations outside the United States and have a demonstrated track record of conducting independent inquiry and research.

John Hopkins University

Center for Civil Society Studies

PCT Fellowship Programme provides financial assistance to admitted Columbia Business School students from the European Union. Assistance is awarded to students who have not only demonstrated past success in academic and professional endeavors but also a significant commitment to philanthropy.

Columbia Business School