ECFG Youth for Impactful Philanthropy (YIP) Fellowship 2024

The Youth for Impactful Philanthropy (YIP) Fellowship is a 12-month fellowship program designed for youth leaders and activists navigating the bridge between adolescence and professional life. As educators, advisors, and advocates to the ECFG secretariat and its members, the YIP Fellowship aims to amplify youth perspectives in the philanthropic field. We seek to recruit a cohort of 3-5 individuals, aged 18-25, to co-design the fellowship during its pilot year. While specific activities will be collaboratively designed, fellows can anticipate engaging in capacity-building exercises that foster intergenerational collaboration and networking, while they learn alongside and contribute their expertise to ECFG members. Across the three phases of onboarding, co-designing, and project implementation, fellows will refine their individual focus and goals within the network's activities. The pilot year of the YIP fellowship will be kicked off in person at ECFG’s AGM on June 4-6 in Nairobi, Kenya.  It is our intention, contingent on funding, that graduates of the YIP Fellowship will, at the end of year one, move forward to join the YouthBridge Collective, an optional second-year fellowship alumni program that will advise on future iterations of the YIP fellowship and act as mentors to the next cohort of fellows, among other influencing activities driven by the collective.