🌍Summer Impact Fellowship
Launch your purpose. Change the world.
A fully funded, immersive fellowship for bold changemakers ready to build a more just and equitable world — one community at a time.
What You’ll Do
As a Summer Impact Fellow, you’ll work alongside grassroots teams across Africa, Asia, and North America to advance innovative, community-rooted solutions in:
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💧 Clean Water & Sanitation
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🍎 Child Health & Nutrition
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🧠 Trauma Support & Childhood Wellbeing
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🤝 Community-Led Development
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💵 Living Wage & Economic Justice
You won’t just observe — you’ll design, implement, and evaluate real-world programs. You’ll build relationships that last a lifetime. You’ll learn to lead in solidarity — not from the top down, but from the inside out.
Fellowship Highlights
💵 Stipend: $1,000/month (Total: $3,000 USD)
Your time matters. Your insight matters. Fellows receive a $3,000 stipend to support their work — honoring the value of lived experience, heart-led leadership, and deep community impact.
✈️ Fully Funded Travel & Experience
We cover international airfare, accommodations, meals, ground transport, and all program-related costs — because purpose should never be limited by privilege.
⏳ Duration: 3 months
Includes virtual onboarding, community immersion, and 15 days of intensive international fieldwork in July.
🌍 Locations:
Partner communities across Africa, Asia, and North America — where change is co-created, not prescribed.
🎓 Mentorship & Global Network
Fellows are matched with seasoned leaders, trauma-informed practitioners, and a global cohort of changemakers — creating a lifelong circle of support and growth.
📁 What You’ll Gain:
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A community-based project you helped design and implement
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A Leadership Portfolio showcasing your impact
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Personalized mentorship and letters of recommendation
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Lifetime membership in the MTF Global Changemaker Network
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Eligibility for post-fellowship microgrants through our Seed the Change Fund
Who We’re Looking For
We welcome emerging leaders who are:
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Passionate about justice, equity, and grassroots change
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Collaborative, adaptable, and rooted in empathy
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Students, recent graduates, or early-career professionals (typically ages 18–30)
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Guided by lived experience, purpose, and the courage to lead
Note: While this fellowship is designed for early-career changemakers, we believe leadership has no age limit. If this opportunity speaks to your journey — apply anyway. We want you at the table.
Fellowship Timeline
Applications Open: September 1st
Application Deadline: December 31st
Application Reviews: January
Finalist Interviews: February
Fellows Selected: March
Onboarding & Training: April – May
Fellowship Begins: June 1st
International Fieldwork: July (15 days)
Fellowship Ends: August 31st
What Makes This Different
We don’t care where you went to school.
We don’t care if your resume is messy.
We care about your heart, your voice, and your vision for justice.
If you’ve been overlooked, underestimated, or told you don’t belong — this was built for you.
Because those closest to the pain are closest to the solution.
And we believe in the kind of change that starts with courage — not credentials.
Post-Fellowship Pathway
We don't stop when August ends.
Our Fellows become part of a lifelong ecosystem of impact and opportunity. After the fellowship, you may:
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Join MTF programs or advisory councils
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Serve as a mentor to future Fellows
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Apply for microgrants to launch your own project
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Be invited to contribute to MTF’s global strategies, storytelling, and special initiatives