CatchLight Fellowship Program 2019 ($30,000 for Innovative Leaders in Visual Storytelling) is open for application
The CatchLight Fellowship serves as an incubator for revolutionary leaders. It is an area to obtain monetary assist, unlock particular person potential, leverage partnerships and amplifies your effect.
CatchLight believes in the significance of visible storytelling to foster an extra empathetic understanding of the world. We aim to develop a thriving visible ecosystem by supporting innovators in the sphere of visible storytelling by the CatchLight Fellowship program. Their purpose is to assist the expansion of the visible ecosystem by bringing sources and assist to all varieties of innovators in the sphere.
They will be:
- Visual storytellers who use visible artwork to spark new conversations, interact communities and whose work is poised to be considerably amplified by collaboration, mentorship, and networking.
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- Organizational leaders who’re working to assist new the visible ecosystem by discovering and amplifying storytellers’ voices and defining the way forward for the sphere.
All Candidates are inspired to push the boundaries in new and thrilling methods. Proposals should characterize excellence and current revolutionary amplification and engagement concepts. They invite and encourage a broad range of candidates, concepts, and artistic mediums.
Fellowship Details
During the primary yr, fellows will work on their proposed undertaking with the networking assist of CatchLight. CatchLight will supply continued amplification and engagement assist for one other yr previous the fellowship yr. The nature of the awarded fellow’s work will decide the suitable mannequin for distribution and partnerships.
Fellows can be anticipated to take part in the individual to 2 key CatchLight packages in San Francisco: a kickoff workshop in April and a Leadership Summit in November.
A CatchLight Fellowship is awarded for life. Fellows can be inspired to share experience inside the CatchLight neighborhood past the expiry of the grant interval, and CatchLight hopes that Fellows will supply mentorship and search mentorship inside the neighborhood all through their lives. CatchLight and CatchLight Fellows might discuss with any previous awardee as a present CatchLight Fellow. Fellows are required to reference their CatchLight Fellowship in bios and resumés itemizing achievements and present positions.