Fellows are recent college graduates working in paid positions at leading nonprofit organizations. The Fellowship experience includes direct service, strategic projects and professional development designed to jumpstart your career in social change.
As an FAO Schwarz Fellow, you’ll join a cohort of talented leaders that includes a growing alumni network in a broad range of social sectors. Retreats and other events give you a chance to get to know other Fellows and explore a broad range of social issues and social change.
The Fellowship builds leadership skills, deepens your knowledge of social challenges, expands your skills and includes mentoring and connecting with social impact leaders. You’ll be challenged to explore difficult problems, reflect on their causes and test your ideas.
Students from every part of the country and and over 40 colleges have been selected as Fellows since our founding.
Many Fellows choose to stay on in leadership roles at their host organizations.
Fellows also use the Fellowship as a launch pad for graduate or professional degree programs
Almost all our Fellows choose careers where they can continue to lead the change!
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At the FAO Schwarz Fellowship, we have always believed in the imagination, energy, and ability of each new generation to envision and create a better future and a better world.
Join us for our next online info session to hear directly from current Fellows. Learn more about the Fellowship and how to apply.
Applicants must be college seniors at accredited four-year institutions at the time of application and be eligible to work in the United States for the duration of the Fellowship.