Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program

Application Deadline: JANUARY 12, 2025.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program. The Kinship Conservation Fellowship supports conservation practitioners across the globe. The program is designed to advance your career and equip you with new skills, insights, and analytical tools to accelerate the projects you lead at home.

The month-long, in-residence Fellowship focuses on market-based solutions in conservation and cultivates your leadership skills in the sector. Through interactive discussions, systems-thinking exercises, and peer-learning sessions, Fellows engage with stories and innovative solutions to overcome complex challenges that they can apply to their own work.

The 2025 program runs June 29 – July 29 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

Eligibility Requirements

The Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program is looking for conservation leaders with at least five years of on the ground experience in conservation, who are involved with the implementation of market-based approaches to solve environmental problems and ready to be part of an expanding community of global leaders.

Fellowship applications include a project proposal that outlines an environmental issue related to the applicant’s work and details their plans to develop a solution using market approaches.

During the Fellowship, the cohort will collaborate on group projects, building upon the group’s collective expertise and proposed projects, as well as ideas from the curriculum and faculty.
Successful applicants will be familiar with business and economic principles and work in a setting where these principles can be integrated with conservation work. Each year 18 applicants are selected to participate in the Fellowship program.
In order to be considered for the program, applicants must meet the following requirements:
Possess a minimum of a four-year U.S. college degree (or its equivalent).
Have a minimum of five years relevant work experience aftercompleting a degree.
Be proficient in spoken and written English.
Be a conservation practitioner (rather than an academic or researcher).

Benefits

For attending the Fellowship in Bellingham, WA, Fellows receive a stipend of US$8,000, net of customary U.S. tax withholding.
All Fellows are responsible for paying their own applicable local, state and federal taxes in respect of the stipend.
Additionally, payments to non-US citizens will be subject to customary US tax withholding (currently at 30%, resulting in a net payment of approximately $5,600, subject to change based on then-current US tax laws).

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program

Application Deadline: January 18, 2016.

When: The program will take place from June 26 through July 27, 2016.

The Kinship Conservation Fellows program, which began in 2001, trains experienced conservationists in the use of market-based principles to address environmental challenges. The program’s ultimate aim is to see large-scale conservation outcomes related to increased health of environmental systems and reduced environmental threats.

Kinship Fellows join a community of practitioners where they continue to network and collaborate to address environmental challenges. Kinship’s global network of 228 Fellows in 51 countries across 7 continents is collaborative, innovative, and dedicated to effective conservation.

The Kinship Fellows‘ track record of success makes it clear that our investment benefits not only Fellows, but also their organizations, and the greater conservation community. Fellows bring home new ideas, tools, and inspiration.

Eligibility

The Kinship Fellowship is looking for conservation leaders with at least five years of experience, who are deeply committed to conservation, involved with the implementation of market-based approaches to solve environmental problems, and ready to be part of an expanding community of global leaders.
A key part of your application will be a proposed project describing an environmental issue related to your work and your plans for developing a solution using market approaches.
Successful applicants will be familiar with business and economic principles and work in a setting where these principles can be integrated with conservation work.
18 applicants are selected to participate in the training program.

In order to be considered for the program, applicants must meet the following requirements:

– Possess a minimum of a four-year U.S. college degree (or its overseas equivalent).
– Have a minimum of five years relevant work experience, after your degree.
– Be proficient in spoken and written English.
– Be a conservation practitioner (rather than an academic or researcher).

Benefits:

$6,000 stipend
Fellows are responsible for their own travel costs.
Kinship Fellows are housed in comfortable residence hall suites located on the award-winning “green” Western Washington University campus in Bellingham, which also provides classroom and other meeting spaces for the program.
A daily lunch allowance for University dining facilities is included. For off-campus dining, downtown and the historic district are within a couple of miles of campus, just a walk, bike ride or short drive away.

Selection Criteria:

Applicants who meet the above requirements will be evaluated in the following areas:

– Proposed project viability and appropriateness
– Leadership potential
– Potential contribution to the month-long program and to an ongoing community of leaders

Apply Now for the Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program

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