Eisner Prize Fellowship 2025-2026 for U.S. (up to $50,000) – YOA

Deadline: May 16, 2025

Applications are invited for the Eisner Prize Fellowship 2025-2026. The Eisner Prize Fellowship helps leaders pioneering improvements in intergenerational connection. Since 2011, the Eisner Foundation has awarded the Eisner Prize to honor folks and organizations doing distinctive intergenerational work throughout the nation.

In this subsequent part within the evolution of the Eisner Prize, The Eisner Foundation is offering monetary assets, networking alternatives, and the status of the Eisner Prize to leaders with new concepts and views that may propel the sphere ahead.

Benefits

• For the 2025-26 cycle, Eisner Prize Fellowships shall be awarded to 3-5 leaders within the intergenerational area, and every Fellow will obtain a complete of $50,000: a $10,000 stipend, and $40,000 to be used towards their specific intergenerational initiative.

Eligibility

• Open to anybody within the United States working to innovate within the space of intergenerational connection – whether or not that be by means of analysis, packages, know-how, or different efforts advancing the sphere. Young folks, folks of shade, and people working with traditionally marginalized communities are significantly inspired to apply.
• Individuals based mostly within the United States and affiliated with a 501(c)3 are welcome to apply, together with college students and people with a fiscal sponsor. Note that the fellowship is for people and never supposed to function a grantmaking program for nonprofits, so whereas nonprofit workers might apply and execute their undertaking beneath the umbrella of their group, the undertaking proposed ought to be one thing new, envisioned and executed by the Fellow.
• Co-leadership groups can apply however be aware that the application is about up for people, so applicant groups could have to choose one particular person as the principle contact. The award funds will stay the identical for every Fellowship, even when it’s awarded to a staff.

Application

The application shall be open April 14 by means of May 16, 2025, and Fellows shall be notified mid-June. The Fellowship will start in July and run for a full yr.

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For extra info, go to Eisner Prize Fellowship.