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- Program
- Open Society Fellowship Program
The Open Society Fellowship Program’s New Executives Fund provides key support to new nonprofit heads to help organizations navigate leadership transitions.
- Contact
- nef@opensocietyfoundations.org
The New Executives Fund is an initiative of the Open Society Fellowship that aims to support newly appointed executive directors and chief executive officers who show promise to grow as leaders in fields that are central to Open Society’s core mission.
The initial period when a new executive is appointed can be the most challenging and simultaneously the most promising time for an organization. It is a period when new directors can bring fresh thinking to the organization and lead their staff into a meaningful phase of self-reflection.
Selected candidates will receive funds to support projects undertaken within the first 24 months of receiving a grant. Such support will allow new leaders to move forward with a new project early in the executive’s tenure.
Guidelines
The fund will not review unsolicited applications. Eligible candidates are nominated internally. For further inquiries, please contact nef@opensocietyfoundations.org.
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Afua Atta-Mensah
2017Afua Atta-Mensah received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Community Voices Heard. -
Amanda Rivera
2017Amanda Rivera received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Instituto de Desarrollo de la Juventud. -
Andres Hernandez
2017Andres Hernandez received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Transparencia por Colombia. -
Catherine Woollard
2017Catherine Woollard received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at European Council on Refugees and Exiles. -
Cayden Mak
2017Cayden Mak received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at 18MillionRising.org. -
Daniela Schwarzer
2017Daniela Schwarzer received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the German Council on Foreign Relations. -
Emina Bosnjak
2017Emina Bosnjak received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Sarajevo Open Centre. -
Friedhelm Weinberg
2017Friedhelm Weinberg received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at HURIDOCS. -
Gary Kalman
2017Gary Kalman received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition.
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Ana María Enríquez
2021Ana María Enríquez received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the Human Rights Funders Network. -
C. Nicole Mason
2021C. Nicole Mason received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. -
Chino Hardin
2021Chino Hardin received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice & Healing. -
Evelyn Austin
2021Evelyn Austin received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Bits of Freedom. -
Imani Rupert-Gordon
2021Imani Rupert-Gordon received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. -
Kyung-Ji Kate Rhee
2021Kyung-Ji Kate Rhee received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice & Healing. -
Magdalena Sepúlveda
2021Magdalena Sepúlveda received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. -
Nomzamo Zondo
2021Nomzamo Zondo received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa. -
Nondumiso Nsibande
2021Nondumiso Nsibande received support for a special discretionary fund for the first two years of leadership at ActionAid South Africa.
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