Social Venture Partners: Brainerd Fellowship Opportunity

This just in from our friends over at Social Venture Partners - Seattle. This is a great opportunity to participate with SVP and allows you to serve on their grants committee, attend their workshops and seminars, and to participate in their consulting projects with grantees. Application deadline is July 22nd at 5pm - more details online at www.svpseattle.org!

Social Venture Partners (SVP) is a network of accomplished individuals who combine financial contributions and professional skills with a passion for philanthropy. Leveraging our collective expertise and resources, we partner with and strengthen promising nonprofits for maximum community impact.

To ensure a strong, healthy network of people, SVP continually strives to increase the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures represented in the organization. In this spirit, SVP invites interested individuals in King County to apply for a two‐year "Brainerd Fellowship." We wish to attract people that couldn't otherwise make the required financial commitment and that will add value to and find personal reward from SVP’s work. Past fellows have added a great deal to the work of SVP, particularly serving on grant committees where they brought perspective and insight that would otherwise have been lacking.

This two‐year Fellowship is intended to widen and strengthen the circle of partners involved in SVP. This fellowship is named in honor of SVP’s co‐founder, Paul Brainerd, and reflects his spirit and ethos. The fellowships are funded by current Partners, and cover the annual $6,000 partner contribution.

To read the full Fellowship description, please visit www.svpseattle.org.

Funders' Network for Smart Growth & Livable Communities: PLACES Fellowship opportunity

The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities is now accepting applications for its PLACES fellowship.

The PLACES fellowship is designed as a year-long fellowship program that offers tools, knowledge, and best practices to enhance funder grantmaking decisions in ways that are responsive to the needs and assets of low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. This fellowship is designed for professionals in philanthropy who are serving low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

The application deadline is July 29, 2011. The fellowship begins in October 2011.

More information at www.fundersnetwork.org/participate/places.

Opportunity: Social Venture Partners Brainerd Fellowship:

Here's an opportunity from Social Venture Partners for their Brainerd Fellowship program- a 2-year funded partnership within SVP.

Click here for a full description of the fellowship and details on how to apply.

The deadline was last Friday, July 16th, but give them a call and it looks like they'll give you until Wednesday to get your application in!

This is a great opportunity for emerging leaders in the non-profit and philanthropic sector who may not otherwise be able to afford to join Social Venture Partners and who will find personal reward in participating with SVP.

PLACES Fellowship Program

The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) is accepting applications and nominations for the second class of its leadership development program designed for emerging professionals in philanthropy. This year-long fellowship program will offer tools, knowledge, and best practices to professionals in philanthropy that can enhance funder grantmaking decisions in ways that are responsive to the needs and assets of low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

Fellows will develop:

• An in-depth knowledge of how decisions about growth and development relate to issues of race/ethnicity/class;
• Tools and resources to help them increase their effectiveness as grantmakers;
• Exposure to best practices of grantmakers working in this field;
• Leadership development and skill building opportunities; and
• Expanded networking opportunities.

For more details and the application, email epipseattle@gmail.com and we'll forward on the information.