Echoing Green Fellowship
Echoing Green · Social-entrepreneur fellowship
$100K$100,000 seed funding paid as a stipend over 18 months (recoverable grant for for-profits)
An 18-month fellowship with $100K in seed funding plus leadership support for early-stage social-impact founders. Nonprofits, for-profits and hybrids are all eligible.
Key terms
- Must be an original founder and the primary decision-maker
- Must work at least 40 hours a week on the venture for 18 months
- Early-stage organization (typically less than 5 years of full-time staff)
- For-profits receive the funding as a recoverable grant
- Must be 18 or older and proficient in English; current or former Fellows are ineligible
Eligibility
- Where
- Worldwide
- Stages
- idea, pre-seed, seed
- Max company age
- 5 years
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- No
- Needs partner referral code
- No
- Must be incorporated
- No
- AI focus required
- No
- Students / researchers
- Not eligible
- Nonprofits
- Eligible
Also required
- Original founder, full-time commitment
- Incorporation, nonprofit status and US residence not required
- Lobbying-focused or religious-recruitment organizations are ineligible
How to apply
Applications open once a year for about three weeks. Sign up for updates on the apply page. The 2026 cycle is closed.
- Benefit
- cash
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- —
- Credit validity
- —
- Deadline
- Annual 3-week window (2026 cycle closed Oct 2025; 2027 cycle dates not yet published as of Oct 2026)
- Status
- Paused — next round TBA
Verified 2026-10-23 · source