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Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) Scholarships and Internships
(CAPAL) will award two (2) scholarships and eight (8) internships to Asian Pacific American (APA) undergraduate and graduate students who CAPAL identifies as future civic, community, or professional leaders in public service.
The two scholarship recipients will spend the summer at a public service internship—for a federal government agency, a Capitol Hill legislative office, or a non-profit organization—and gain firsthand knowledge of the workings of American government. Each CAPAL scholar will be awarded a $2,000
scholarship to support the successful completion of an internship of his/her choice in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Each CAPAL scholar will be responsible for obtaining his/her own internship.
CAPAL will also partner with four federal government agencies to award eight paid internships to APA undergraduate and graduate students. Two interns will be placed at each of the following United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies: Agricultural Research Service (ARS); Rural Development (RD); Forest Service (FS); and Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Each intern will be assigned mentors and will receive a $2,000 stipend.
Please visit http://www.capal.org for application forms and additional details and address any questions to scholarships@capal.org. The internship application deadline for the four USDA agencies is April 3, 2009, and the scholarship application deadline is May 1, 2009. Decisions for internships will be made by April 30, 2009, and for scholarships by May 8, 2009. The application process also includes a phone interview.
AED New Voices Fellowship for US Nonprofits
Description: New Voices, inaugurated in 1999, is a national program to help nonprofit organizations bring innovative new talent to their staffs. It awards salary-support grants to small nonprofits demonstrating a commitment to cultivating and strengthening the leadership potential of "new voices."
Eligibility: Only US-based nonprofit organizations are eligible. Only one application per organization or Fellow is allowed. For further requirements, see the "Eligibility" section of the website.
Deadline: Mid-February (annually)
Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship
Description: Echoing Green awards two year fellowships to emerging social innovators. Annually, we award Fellowships to individuals with innovative ideas for creating new models for tackling seemingly unsolvable social challenges. These Fellowships offer them the opportunity to develop and test their ideas. Echoing Green offers fellowships to individuals and to partnerships of no more than two individuals.
Individual Fellowships: $30,000 per year for two years for a total of $60,000 paid in four equal installments of $15,000.
Partnership Fellowships: $45,000 per year (per project, not per individual) for two years for a total of $90,000 paid in four equal installments of $22,500.
Deadline: Early December (annually)
Environmental Leadership Program (ELP)
Description: The ELP Fellowship is an innovative national program designed to build the leadership capacity of the environmental field's most promising emerging practitioners from the United States, U.S. territories, and Freely Associated States.
Eligibility: Applicants for the ELP Fellowship must commit to participating in four retreats over two years--one in the spring and one in the summer of each year. We define emerging leaders as practitioners who are relatively new to the environmental field (approximately 3-10 years of experience).
Deadline: Application period opens in June. Fellows are selected in December.
Byron Hanke Fellowship - Community Associations Institute Research Foundation
Description: The Foundation for Community Association Research is proud to announce an annual Fellowship, available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. The Hanke Fellowship stipends will be between $2,000 - $4,000. The Foundation Executive Committee maintains the right to determine the amount of the stipend. Fellows are expected to prepare a research project on community associations.
Eligibility: Hanke Fellowship applicants must be enrolled in an accredited master's, doctoral, or law program in the United States of America or Canada. Students of all disciplines are welcome to apply for the Hanke Fellowships, provided their studies relate to community associations generally and to the topic of the candidate's proposed community associations research project.
Deadline: Hanke Fellowships are awarded throughout the year, following meetings of the Foundation Board. There is no deadline for applying for a fellowship.
National Network for Environmental Management Studies
Description: The purpose of the NNEMS program is to: Provide students with practical research opportunities and experiences in an EPA office or laboratory; Increase public awareness of and involvement in environmental issues; Encourage qualified individuals to pursue environmental careers; Help defray the costs associated with the pursuit of academic programs related to the field of environmental protection (such as pollution control, science, engineering, technology, social science, and specialty areas).
Eligibility: A citizen of the United States, its territories or possessions, who is a.) enrolled for academic credit at an accredited educational institution, and b.) pursuing an educational program directly related to pollution control or environmental protection for the duration of the fellowship
Deadline: Mid-February (annually)
National Wildlife Federation - Campus Ecology Fellowship Program
Description: The National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Fellowship Program offers a nationally recognized opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue their vision of an ecologically sustainable future. Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students from any college or university in the United States may apply. Applicants need not be environmental studies majors. Current and former employees of National Wildlife Federation are ineligible to apply. Former NWF interns are eligible to apply following one year from their final work date.
Deadline: Mid-September, Mid-November (annually)
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
Description: Graduate Student Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct research for ten-week periods in association with Smithsonian research staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a graduate program of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet have been advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program.
Stipends: Graduate Students - $4,500.
Deadline: January 15th (postmark) for awards to begin on or after June 1st
(CAPAL) will award two (2) scholarships and eight (8) internships to Asian Pacific American (APA) undergraduate and graduate students who CAPAL identifies as future civic, community, or professional leaders in public service.
The two scholarship recipients will spend the summer at a public service internship—for a federal government agency, a Capitol Hill legislative office, or a non-profit organization—and gain firsthand knowledge of the workings of American government. Each CAPAL scholar will be awarded a $2,000
scholarship to support the successful completion of an internship of his/her choice in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Each CAPAL scholar will be responsible for obtaining his/her own internship.
CAPAL will also partner with four federal government agencies to award eight paid internships to APA undergraduate and graduate students. Two interns will be placed at each of the following United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies: Agricultural Research Service (ARS); Rural Development (RD); Forest Service (FS); and Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Each intern will be assigned mentors and will receive a $2,000 stipend.
Please visit http://www.capal.org for application forms and additional details and address any questions to scholarships@capal.org. The internship application deadline for the four USDA agencies is April 3, 2009, and the scholarship application deadline is May 1, 2009. Decisions for internships will be made by April 30, 2009, and for scholarships by May 8, 2009. The application process also includes a phone interview.
AED New Voices Fellowship for US Nonprofits
Description: New Voices, inaugurated in 1999, is a national program to help nonprofit organizations bring innovative new talent to their staffs. It awards salary-support grants to small nonprofits demonstrating a commitment to cultivating and strengthening the leadership potential of "new voices."
Eligibility: Only US-based nonprofit organizations are eligible. Only one application per organization or Fellow is allowed. For further requirements, see the "Eligibility" section of the website.
Deadline: Mid-February (annually)
Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship
Description: Echoing Green awards two year fellowships to emerging social innovators. Annually, we award Fellowships to individuals with innovative ideas for creating new models for tackling seemingly unsolvable social challenges. These Fellowships offer them the opportunity to develop and test their ideas. Echoing Green offers fellowships to individuals and to partnerships of no more than two individuals.
Individual Fellowships: $30,000 per year for two years for a total of $60,000 paid in four equal installments of $15,000.
Partnership Fellowships: $45,000 per year (per project, not per individual) for two years for a total of $90,000 paid in four equal installments of $22,500.
Deadline: Early December (annually)
Environmental Leadership Program (ELP)
Description: The ELP Fellowship is an innovative national program designed to build the leadership capacity of the environmental field's most promising emerging practitioners from the United States, U.S. territories, and Freely Associated States.
Eligibility: Applicants for the ELP Fellowship must commit to participating in four retreats over two years--one in the spring and one in the summer of each year. We define emerging leaders as practitioners who are relatively new to the environmental field (approximately 3-10 years of experience).
Deadline: Application period opens in June. Fellows are selected in December.
Byron Hanke Fellowship - Community Associations Institute Research Foundation
Description: The Foundation for Community Association Research is proud to announce an annual Fellowship, available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. The Hanke Fellowship stipends will be between $2,000 - $4,000. The Foundation Executive Committee maintains the right to determine the amount of the stipend. Fellows are expected to prepare a research project on community associations.
Eligibility: Hanke Fellowship applicants must be enrolled in an accredited master's, doctoral, or law program in the United States of America or Canada. Students of all disciplines are welcome to apply for the Hanke Fellowships, provided their studies relate to community associations generally and to the topic of the candidate's proposed community associations research project.
Deadline: Hanke Fellowships are awarded throughout the year, following meetings of the Foundation Board. There is no deadline for applying for a fellowship.
National Network for Environmental Management Studies
Description: The purpose of the NNEMS program is to: Provide students with practical research opportunities and experiences in an EPA office or laboratory; Increase public awareness of and involvement in environmental issues; Encourage qualified individuals to pursue environmental careers; Help defray the costs associated with the pursuit of academic programs related to the field of environmental protection (such as pollution control, science, engineering, technology, social science, and specialty areas).
Eligibility: A citizen of the United States, its territories or possessions, who is a.) enrolled for academic credit at an accredited educational institution, and b.) pursuing an educational program directly related to pollution control or environmental protection for the duration of the fellowship
Deadline: Mid-February (annually)
National Wildlife Federation - Campus Ecology Fellowship Program
Description: The National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Fellowship Program offers a nationally recognized opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue their vision of an ecologically sustainable future. Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students from any college or university in the United States may apply. Applicants need not be environmental studies majors. Current and former employees of National Wildlife Federation are ineligible to apply. Former NWF interns are eligible to apply following one year from their final work date.
Deadline: Mid-September, Mid-November (annually)
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
Description: Graduate Student Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct research for ten-week periods in association with Smithsonian research staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a graduate program of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet have been advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program.
Stipends: Graduate Students - $4,500.
Deadline: January 15th (postmark) for awards to begin on or after June 1st
