Become a Dalai Lama Fellow!
Social Innovation, Ethics & Contemplative Values
A Social Innovation Fellowship for Young Egyptians
We are calling globally-minded citizens who want to build a more harmonious, peaceful, and sustainable world. Propose a year-long Compassion-in-Action project - a project that addresses a need or challenge in your community - and join an international network of Fellows who are committed to social change rooted in secular ethics, contemplative values, and compassion.
As a Fellow, you:
- Design and launch a project to address a significant challenge in a community in Egypt;
- Attend the Ethical Leadership Assembly (ELA) in June near San Francisco, USA, to connect with Fellows from around the world and to deepen your leadership capacity;
- Receive up to $5,000 in funding for your project; and,
Participate in a distinctive, year-long curriculum with ongoing, personalized coaching.
Learn more about Fellowship journey on our website.
This year, our program is seeking proposals for year-long Compassion-in-Action projects that will improve well-being while working across differences at the intersection of justice, peace, and ecology.
We are interested in supporting efforts that will strengthen unlikely alliances and improve well-being in locations where economic impoverishment, violence and/or discord, and ecological degradation intersect. Ideal projects will have layers that respond to each of these intersecting challenges.
To apply: http://bit.ly/DLFApp2015 (Deadline: January 31, 2015 @ 6:00 p.m. GMT)
Eligibility
Between the ages of 21 and 30;
- Living in Egypt and proposing a social change project that is primarily based in Egypt;
- Able to attend an application "boot camp" hosted by Nahdet el Mahrousa to help you refine your application and project;
- Able to attend the Ethical Leadership Assembly (ELA) in the San Francisco Bay Area from June 11-18, 2015 and again in June 2016;
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Available to engage with the Tilling the Soil curriculum and refine the proposed compassion-in-action project beginning March 1st, both through self-guided learning and conversations with Dalai Lama Fellows Program Directors;
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Prepared to dedicate sufficient time and energy to the project, the year-long Ethical Leadership curriculum, and the Dalai Lama Fellows community.
About Us
Dalai Lama Fellows, a distinctive, secular global program personally authorized by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, envisions and works towards a world that tends to the good of the whole as well as of the individual. We do this by guiding a global network of young social entrepreneurs to deepen their effectiveness by merging innovation with secular ethics, contemplative values, and compassion.
Connect With Us
Bela Shah, Program Officer
Bidisha Banerjee, Program Director
bbanerjee@dalailamafellows.org
General inquiries
Email: info@dalailamafellows.org
Website: http://dalailamafellows.org/
Location: San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415-400-8627
Facebook: facebook.com/DalaiLamaFellows
Twitter: @DLFellows