Apply to be a Atlas Corps 2009-2010 Fellow

The search for our next class of nonprofit leaders begins on Monday, February 2! We are seeking mid-career professionals from more than 160 nations, with three or more years of experience in the nonprofit sector, a university degree, and fluency in English, to participate in our one-year fellowship in Washington, DC. Applications from Colombia, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa are of special interest to some of our Host organizations. There are also fellowships in Bogotá, Colombia for nonprofit professionals from the United States who are fluent in Spanish.

The Atlas Corps Fellowship Program strengthens leaders and organizations in the nonprofit sector through a one-year international exchange of mid-career professionals. Atlas Corps is helping to create a world where talented individuals and good ideas in the nonprofit sector cross borders to share best practices, learn new perspectives, and address the world's most pressing social challenges.

The application deadline is April 1, 2009. For more information or to download an application, please visit www.atlascorps.org/apply.html

The updated application will be available on Monday, February 2nd. Questions? Email apply@atlscorps.org.

Sankalp Awards 2009 Nominations Open

For all social Entrepreneurs - a brilliant opportunity to showcase your enterprise!

Sankalp 2009 supported by partners such as The Rockefeller Foundation, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and the Rural Innovation Network (RIN) is South Asia's first investment forum for emerging enterprises as well as ideas that aim to solve pressing issues of the day in a sustainable and profitable manner.

The Sankalp Awards are an effort to discover, connect, support and recognize
the most investible ideas and emerging enterprises operating in high impact
sectors.

The sectors that business plan nominations are being sought are:
a. Agriculture & Rural Innovations
b. Healthcare Inclusion
c. Education for All
d. Environment & Clean Energy
e. Other highly scalable social models

For further information on the award process kindly view http://sankalpforum.com

D.light Design Fellows Program!

D.light Design (www.dlightdesign.com) is a lighting and power company that delivers affordable and high quality solutions to serve families living without adequate electricity. Our mission is to replace every kerosene lantern in the world to provide everyone access to a basic human need: safe and bright light.

Announcing the D.light Design Fellows Program!

We are pleased to announce the launch of the D.light Fellows Program! The Fellows Program connects D.light with passionate and talented professionals from around the world. For terms of 3-10 months, fellows will use their unique skills and experiences to contribute in a significant way to our mission of replacing kerosene lanterns with safe and bright light.

Each fellow will be located in one of our three field offices in India, China, or Tanzania, working closely with our multi-national team across three continents and four countries. As D.light continues to expand quickly, we promise that all fellows will have an invigorating, challenging, and life-change experience!

Please visit our website to view a more detailed description of the program and how to apply. The first application deadline is February 15, 2009, so please consider applying and help us spread the word! We are currently recruiting for the following fellows:

* Business Development (India)
* International Business Development (China)
* Marketing (India)
* Marketing & Communications (China)
* Product Design (India)
* Reliability & Testing (China)
* Research & Development (China)
* Supply Chain Management (China)

APPLY HERE

CNN is looking for Young Heroes

CNN is searching the globe for people whose selflessness, dedication and achievement are as inspiring as the CNN Heroes we honored in 2008. Tell us about your hero, and why CNN should share his or her story with the world. The most outstanding nominees will be honored at an all-star tribute at the end of the year.

Check out the 2008 CNN Hero Archive.

APPLY HERE

Engineers 4 Social Impact (E4SI) Fellowship

An excellent opportunity for university students in India

Engineers for Social Impact is a unique fellowship program that connects top engineering talent to credible social enterprises driving market-based solutions to development in India. It serves a dual need: matching talented students with worthy social enterprises and increasing awareness of for-profit approaches to development.

E4SI Fellows will not only be paid competitive stipends but will also be supported by Team E4SI and its network of advisors. Fellows will have a chance to telescope their learning curve by attending leadership workshops at the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, working with leading social entrepreneurs, and pitching their ideas to thought leaders.

Important Dates
Application Starts Jan 15, 2009
Application Deadline Feb 22, 2009
Fellows Declared March 11, 2009

Duration of the fellowship: May 2009 – August 2009 (Exact dates depend on university schedules)

REGISTER AND APPLY HERE

Win a Trip You Won’t Forget

Nicholas Kristof writes: I’m pleased to invite you to apply for the 2009 Win-a-Trip contest. As I wrote in my column, I will take a university student with me on a reporting trip to Africa, giving the student a chance to blog for nytimes.com and to file videos to The Times and Youtube.

Just to get you in the right frame of mind, here’s how Michael Kinsley envisioned the trip in one of his columns in The Washington Post a few years ago:

It’s the middle of the night. We’re in a small tent pitched on the rocky slope of a mountain trail: me, Nick, our trusty guide, three prostitutes we’ve rescued from a life of sex slavery and four local businessmen unjustly accused of insider trading on the village’s primitive, hand-pumped stock exchange. Outside, the jackals are yelping. Inside, nature is calling. Urgently. Am I man enough to face the jackals, or masochist enough to wait until morning? Answer: Whatever. I’m tough. I can handle either of these. But ultimately, the jackals are less terrifying than the thought of one more minute listening to Nick’s tales of all the real adventures he’s been on that make this one seem like a game of patty-cake. I flee the tent, am devoured by the jackals and Kristof gets a column out of it.

Actually, we’ll stay away from the jackals on this trip. I’m not sure where we’ll go, but some possibilities are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. The coup in Guinea is still sorting itself out, so we’ll see how that develops.

The contest is open to students at American universities – either undergraduates or graduate students – who are 18 years old or over. I know I’ll get indignant letters from other people, but right now I’m confining it to students. Please consult the full rules, which explain more about eligibility.

You can apply either with an essay or with a video, or both. Send the essay to winatrip@nytimes.com. Post the video on my Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/NicholasKristof, next to my own video invitation for applications. In either case, just explain why I should pick you.

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