Description
The Fellowship scholarship program is offered and fully funded by Open Society Foundations, the Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United States.
The fellowship program is part of a larger effort by the Open Society Foundations' Criminal Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and harsh punishment, and ensuring a fair and equitable system of justice.
The fellowship program is divided into two categories as follow:
The Fellowship scholarship program is offered and fully funded by Open Society Foundations, the Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United States.
The fellowship program is part of a larger effort by the Open Society Foundations' Criminal Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and harsh punishment, and ensuring a fair and equitable system of justice.
The fellowship program is divided into two categories as follow:
- Advocacy Fellowships fund outstanding individuals — including lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, activist academics, and others with important perspectives — to initiate innovative policy advocacy projects at the local, state, and national levels that will have a measurable impact on one or more of OSF's U.S. criminal justice priorities. Projects may range from litigation to public education to coalition-building to grassroots mobilization to policy-driven research.
- Media Fellowships support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinct voices proposing to complete media projects for local, regional, and national markets that engage the public and spur debate on one or more of OSF's U.S. criminal justice priorities.
Eligibility
The program is targeted to applicants coming from individuals directly affected by, or with significant direct personal experience with, the policies, practices, and systems their projects seek to address (e.g., applicants who have themselves been incarcerated or who have a family member or loved one who has been incarcerated and whose fellowship project emerges from that experience). individuals directly affected by, or with significant direct personal experience with, the policies, practices, and systems their projects seek to address (e.g., applicants who have themselves been incarcerated or who have a family member or loved one who has been incarcerated and whose fellowship project emerges from that experience).
Application Procedure
This fellowship award must be applied online, please find the online scholarship application at the link below.
Submission Deadline
October 27, 2012
Website Link
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=386200004
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