Focusing on local partnerships and social impacts through the lens of innovation, the Social Innovation Fellowship (or SIF) is a two-year program that offers students the opportunity to explore the cross-sector, justice-minded work of social innovation, as well as develop the technical and conceptual skills and knowledge required for starting successful ventures or making transformative changes within existing organizations. Placing community concerns, strengths, and partnerships at the center, SIF offers students support in evolving their engagement and projects through coaching, hands-on experience, and mentorship within the ecosystem of Swearer Center faculty, advisors and peers. 

Throughout this two-year program, fellows have access to hands-on learning, advising, and a curriculum that introduces and strengthens social innovation skills, designed in partnership with Social Enterprise Greenhouse and other community organizations and campus partners.

Fellows receive an annual stipend of $2,000.

The Social Innovation Fellowship is funded, in part, thanks to the Leslie Miller Altman '75, P'08 Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship Fund, the Stark Family Fund for the Social Innovation Initiative and the Kenneth Cole Foundation Fund for Social Innovation.