East-West Center Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar 2025 (Funding available) – YOA

Deadline: February 11, 2025

Applications are open for the East-West Center Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar 2025. The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar focuses on the very important position that innovation and entrepreneurship play in contributing to financial development, job creation, and strengthening communities. During this 12-day skilled coaching, dialogue, and journey program, members interact in a collection of workshops centered on management and entrepreneurship.

Participants additionally increase their information of entrepreneurship, financial development, management, and neighborhood constructing by fastidiously chosen area visits and conferences with specialists, practitioners, enterprise homeowners, and policymakers in Hawaiʻi. Participants are individually matched with native girls leaders in a Host Mentor Program and, in return, Changing Faces members act as mentors for a choose group of highschool college students in a Next Generation Service Project. Finally, the Changing Faces Seminar additionally offers coaching and consultative periods to assist members develop and actualize a concrete Action Plan for the betterment of their enterprise or their neighborhood.

Funding

The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar is funded by the East-West Center, the Fish Family Foundation, and others. Funding helps the participation of six to eight girls from the United States and the Asia Pacific area. A full scholarship is estimated at US$3,500/per participant and contains the next programmatic prices:

• Interisland airfare from Oʻahu to Kauaʻi
• Ground transportation and airport transfers all through the 2025 program
• Lodging on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi for 12 days of the 2025 program
• Program meals and a modest per diem to cowl meals not supplied all through the 2025 program
• Pro-rated speaker honorariums and coaching workshops
• Individually tailor-made host mentorship
• Cultural actions and networking alternatives
• Participant useful resource supplies
• Experienced facilitators with information of regional and ladies’s management points

All Changing Faces Women are liable for their very own roundtrip airfare to and from Honolulu, visa associated bills, medical insurance, and baggage charges. Given the restricted variety of scholarships accessible, the Center strongly encourages extra participant price-sharing of programmatic prices and considers price-sharing as proof of an applicant’s dedication to self-development, a want to scale one’s enterprise, and to the goals of the Seminar.

Eligibility

• The Changing Faces Seminar targets girls enterprise homeowners and social entrepreneurs who’ve demonstrated management and talent to have an effect on change and affect others of their communities. Innovative entrepreneurs, enterprise managers, authorities and business policymakers, and civil society leaders with at the least seven years of labor expertise and who play a management position of their neighborhood are eligible to apply. Innovators might usually be outlined as those that have created an unique thought or product or are acknowledged for his or her means to enhance upon an unique thought or system.
• Eligible nations embody the United States, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sāmoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Timor-Leste, Tonga, and Vietnam. Women from Hawaiʻi are significantly inspired to apply!
• Applicants should have the flexibility to speak in English in knowledgeable setting. Preference is given to candidates with restricted alternatives for worldwide trade {and professional} growth in addition to those that supply to price-share programmatic prices. A cellphone interview could also be carried out with finalists.

Application

Applicants should submit all the following to be thought of:

• Completed on-line Changing Faces Seminar Application Form
• Letter of Interest (most three pages) together with:
  • A short description of your organization/group and your position
  • What you anticipate to contribute to and achieve from collaborating in Changing Faces
  • Concrete instance(s) of your skilled management and innovation, as outlined above
  • Demonstrated potential for impression inside your neighborhood
  • Identify an actionable objective for both your group or neighborhood that you just want to work on and description the position you possibly can or want to play in reaching that objective. NOTE: This will function the idea of your Action Plan for the approaching 12 months. For extra details about the Action Plan, click here.
• Resume/CV (most two pages)
• Two Professional Letters of Recommendation describing your suitability for the Seminar. The letters needs to be signed and on letterhead.

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For extra data, go to Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar.