The Pearson Foundation in partnership with TakingITGlobal has launched Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation to provide financial grants and mentoring to young people for worldwide social service projects.
This international fellowship program will support most promising social service projects created by TakingITGlobal’s growing network of youth leaders. Recognition and support will be rendered to youth-developed projects created as a component of TakingITGlobal’s innovative Sprout e-Course curriculum, which is designed to provide training in essential skills for young leaders around the world.
“Both the Fellowship and the e-Course are aligned with the main objectives of the World Youth Congress – finding ways to harness the incredible talent, energy, and ingenuity of young people in their shared effort to achieve the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals of eradicating hunger, achieving universal education and gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, promoting environmental sustainability, and developing global partnerships.
The Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation will be awarded to young people with the most promising and well-prepared plans for community projects developed during the Sprout e-Course. Two International Fellows will each receive $5,000 to help launch their projects. Ten additional Regional Fellows will each receive a $1,000 award. All Pearson Fellows will receive one-on-one mentoring from experienced social innovators who will consult with them as they implement their project plans. Integral to the program is a special online community where the Fellows can network with their peers and have access to special online materials and training designed to help them take their projects from the planning stage to reality.”
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