Call for The Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program 2025 (Fully Funded) is open now !!!
The Kinship Conservation Fellowship, which supports conservation practitioners worldwide, is now accepting applications. The program is designed to advance your career and equip you with new skills, insights, and analytical tools to accelerate the projects you lead at home.
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The month-long, in-residence Fellowship focuses on market-based solutions in conservation and cultivates your leadership skills in the sector. Through interactive discussions, systems-thinking exercises, and peer-learning sessions, Fellows engage with stories and innovative solutions to overcome complex challenges that they can apply to their own work.
The 2025 program runs June 29 – July 29 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Delivered by a faculty of global experts, the program’s curriculum is curated to the unique opportunities of each year’s cohort and exposes Fellows to the six Kinship Conservation Pillars for market-based solutions:
- Leading Adaptively
- Iterating for Scale
- Designing for Governing the Commons
- Identifying an Economic Engine
- Financing Conservation
- Evaluating for Impact
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Applicants who meet the above requirements will be evaluated in the following areas:
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- Proposed project viability and appropriateness
- Leadership potential
- Potential contribution at the Fellowship program and ongoing membership in the Fellows Community.
Location:
United StatesBenefits
- For attending the Fellowship in Bellingham, WA, Fellows receive a stipend of US$8,000, net of customary U.S. tax withholding.
- All Fellows are responsible for paying their own applicable local, state and federal taxes in respect of the stipend.
- Additionally, payments to non-US citizens will be subject to customary US tax withholding (currently at 30%, resulting in a net payment of approximately $5,600, subject to change based on then-current US tax laws).
Eligibilities
- They’re looking for conservation leaders with at least five years of on the ground experience in conservation, who are involved with the implementation of market-based approaches to solve environmental problems and ready to be part of an expanding community of global leaders.
- Fellowship applications include a project proposal that outlines an environmental issue related to the applicant’s work and details their plans to develop a solution using market approaches.
- In order to be considered for the program, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Possess a minimum of a four-year U.S. college degree (or its equivalent).
- Have a minimum of five years relevant work experience after completing a degree.
- Be proficient in spoken and written English.
- Be a conservation practitioner (rather than an academic or researcher).
Application Process
- Applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM US Central Standard Time on January 12, 2025.
- Applications that are in progress but have not been submitted by this deadline will not be considered.
- Letters of recommendation should be uploaded to the system by the letter writer by January 19, 2025.
Application Deadline: January 12, 2025 (15 Days Remaining)
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