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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship
Requirements
- Eligibility: Fellows must be Dartmouth College undergraduates in the Junior
and Senior years. Occasional exceptions may be made for unusual Dartmouth Plan
patterns.
- Applications and Deadline: Prospective fellows must submit a completed
application form, including proposal outline, budget and learning plan; two
letters of recommendation and a Community Partner Agreement to Collaborate by
the time of the posted deadline, which will be mid-term each Winter. An
interview with the Class of ’82 Social Entrepreneurship Selection Committee
will follow.
- Project Location: Fellows must work with a non-profit and/or
non-governmental Community Service Organization (CSO) in the Upper Valley. The
receiving organization should be within (roughly) a 30-mile radius of the
Dartmouth Campus.
- Length and Depth of Service: Fellows must be able and committed to engage
in Fellowship activity (of varying degrees of intensity) over a 4-8 term
period, including one “Immersion” leave–term of full-time Fellowship
activity.
- Addressing Needs: Preference will be given to proposals in which the
non-profit organization is assisted in ways that increase its capacity to meet
its mission. Therefore, one or more of the following non-profit enhancements
should be addressed: new program development; existing program activity
enhancement; community and public outreach and engagement; revenue development;
financial sustainability; research and development or organizational
assessment.
- Identified Partner Agency: Fellowships must be in partnership with an Upper
Valley non-profit or activist organization, or a school that is under-resourced
or serves people with special needs. Fellowship partnerships with organizations
that combine faith and service are permitted and encouraged, but direct
evangelism or building of a religious congregation is not permitted in the
Fellowship. By federal law, fellows may not partner with politically partisan
organizations, or perform lobbying work.
- Supervision and Specific Collaboration: Prospective fellows must name an
agency employee or designated consultant who will be a working partner to
advise and collaborate with the fellow and to act as a supervisor as necessary.
Applications will include a letter of support and commitment to collaborate
from the specific Upper Valley non-profit entity.
- Entrepreneurship: Proposed fellowship projects must incorporate elements
and principals of social entrepreneurship (see “What is a Social Entrepreneur?”
below).
Realistic Plan: Fellowship projects must outline a realistic project “scope” of
activity; anticipate reasonable, measurable outcomes and describe a plan for
economic and human resource sustainability of the project over time once the
Fellowship is completed.
- Skills and Experience: The most successful fellowship applicant will
demonstrate organizational, leadership and communication skills and experiences
that are specifically relevant to the fellowship project and its attendant
tasks
- Budgeting Costs: Fellowship applicants must plan for living, transportation
and material costs for the Fellowship, and submit a budget plan with the
application. Routine transportation to the Fellowship site is not provided by
Tucker Foundation vehicles. The Advance Transit bus system is free and operates
in proximity to most central agencies in Lebanon and West Lebanon, NH, and
White River Junction and Norwich, Vt. Mileage reimbursement for personal
vehicles can be considered as part of the Fellowship budget in regions where
Advance Transit does not operate.
- Student Learning: Prospective fellows will provide an outline of the
proposed fellow’s educational plan for the project, in which the candidate
describes the learning outcomes he or she anticipates. Educational plans might
also include auditing (with permission) of the Tuck School course on Social
Entrepreneurship, or attending meetings of the Upper Valley Non-Profit
Exchange, a group of local non-profit managers who convene at the Tuck School
on a regular basis.
- Reporting and Information Sharing: Fellows will be expected to report on
fellowship progress and outcomes each term, and provide materials to the Class
of 1982 and the Tucker Foundation as needed. Specifically included will be 1) a
brief, co-presentation, made by the fellow and the non-profit supervisor to the
Class of ’82 Advisory Board and selected guests, between weeks six and eight in
the first term of the Fellowship, outlining the project’s preliminary intent,
early project objectives and progress, and anticipated outcomes; 2) brief, term
progress reports; 3) a final report that describes the Fellowship outcomes for
the fellow’s learning, for improvement in the community and a document to guide
the project and sustain it over time.
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