New Voices Fellowships

New Voices Fellowship
Call for Grant Applications

The Academy for Edutional Development Announces Next Competition for 12 New Grant Awards to Support Nonprofits and Promising New Leaders Committed to Social Justice and Peace.

Sponsored fields of work include:

*Human Rights
*HIV/AIDS
*Migrant and Refugee Rights
*Racial Justice
*Reproductive Rights
*Women’s Rights

The two-year grants, worth about $100,000, offer support for salary, fringe benefits, financial assistance, leadership training, mentoring, and a professional development account for a promising new leader.  The applying nonprofit and its prospective Fellow prepare an application together as a team.

This competition we also hope to receive more applications from candidates who are men of color (specifically Latino & East Asian males), LGBT organizations working on marriage rights, and women’s rights organizations focusing on women in the work force.  We are also interested in applications from nonprofit organizations in cities impacted by Hurricane Katrina (e.g., New Orleans, Mobile, Biloxi, Gulfport*etc). New Voices also hopes to receive applications from organizations working on social justice issues in the city of Detroit.  This list is not exclusive or exhaustive.

Grant applications and eligibility criteria are now available from the New Voices web site at www.aed.org/newvoices  The deadline is February 13, 2006. 

For additional information or to join the program mailing list, please contact us by e-mail at newvoice@aed.org, by phone at 202-884-8051, by fax at (202) 884-8407, or by mail at:

New Voices/AED
1825 Connecticut Ave, N.W.
Suite 744
Washington, DC 20009