Interfaith Innovation Fellowship Grant

The Interfaith Innovation Fellowship, offered by Interfaith America, empowers leaders to develop interfaith projects that address community needs. Participants receive a $5,000 award and engage in a year-long program emphasizing collaboration, mentorship, and professional development. This initiative connects emerging leaders across diverse sectors, fostering cooperation in a pluralistic society. The fellowship culminates in an intensive retreat, where members learn from each other's experiences and celebrate impactful work aimed at social change.

Interfaith America
Since that time, Interfaith America has evolved from a small Chicago-based nonprofit to the nation’s premier interfaith organization. Led by Founder and President Eboo Patel, Interfaith America inspires, equips, and connects leaders and institutions to unlock the potential of America’s religious diversity. Utilizing a research-backed approach, IA works in higher education, health, corporate, bridgebuilding, civic fields.
Deepen your interfaith leadership skills by joining a select cohort of peers for a yearlong fellowship, and completing a project using principles of interfaith cooperation to directly respond to a need you’ve identified within your community
Members of Interfaith America’s Emerging Leaders Network successfully collaborate across difference throughout many sectors of society by employing an interfaith lens and leveraging the gifts of America’s religious diversity. Thus, we are proud to support the ongoing leadership development and impact of this network through the Interfaith Innovation Fellowship. The Fellowship awards $5,000 to interfaith leaders with an inspirational vision for social change.
In addition to the $5,000 award, Fellows will network with cohort members and learn from one another’s projects, participate in an intensive in person retreat in Chicago geared toward their professional development, and receive ongoing support to grow their leadership experience through mentorship with senior-level Interfaith America staff.
Purpose
The Fellowship is intended to support the work of the Emerging Leaders Network to carry out projects that address a community need with an interfaith lens, and to support the recipient’s development as an interfaith leader.

Eligibility

All members of Interfaith America’s Emerging Network are eligible to apply.
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