Voqal Partners Fellowship 2027 ($30,000 award) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Voqal Partners Fellowship 2027. The Voqal Partners Fellowship is a six-month program for social justice changemakers able to construct and take a look at a brand new thought. Each 12 months, they choose a small cohort of fellows and supply the funding, teaching, and neighborhood to maneuver their work ahead from idea to actual-world experimentation.

This is a dream-stage and thought-stage fellowship. They are searching for folks with a daring imaginative and prescient for the long run—even when they’re nonetheless determining precisely the right way to get there. You don’t want a completed group, product, or marketing campaign. You want a compelling thought, a transparent sense of the change you’re working towards, and the willingness to take the primary steps.

Benefits

• $30,000 award: Paid as a lump sum initially of the fellowship. No strings on the way you spend it — cowl residing bills, rent assist, purchase tools. If it helps you and your thought, it’s truthful recreation.
• $1,000 healthcare stipend: Because your well being issues too.
• Travel to a few in-individual convenings: All journey prices are lined. Voqal Partners additionally gives a childcare stipend for fellows with dependents underneath 18.
• Coaching and mentorship: Access to a community of coaches, advisors, and mentors who can work by way of operational, strategic, and structural questions with you.
• A cohort of friends: Eight fellows per 12 months, studying alongside one another. Past fellows keep linked by way of an energetic alum community.

Eligibility

• You have to be 18 or older, primarily based within the United States, and in a position to obtain funds within the U.S. Voqal Partners doesn’t supply visa sponsorship.
• They are searching for neighborhood leaders who’re part of the communities they work with — not exterior them. They imagine the folks closest to a problem are sometimes closest to the options. They prioritize folks with lived expertise, who symbolize non-dominant cultures, and who’re working to useful resource traditionally excluded communities.
• They particularly encourage candidates from communities traditionally excluded from philanthropy, together with LGBTQIA+ people, girls, Indigenous peoples, folks of coloration, and other people with disabilities.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Voqal Partners Fellowship.