Swearer Center for Public Service
Social Innovation Fellowship
Focusing on local partnerships and social impacts through the lens of innovation, this two-year developmental program offers students the opportunity to explore modes of social innovation and the technical and conceptual skills and knowledge required for starting successful ventures or making transformational changes within existing organizations.
Structure
The Social Innovation Fellowship is a two-year developmental program that places the community at the center and offers students coaching and hands-on social innovation experience. Fellows also benefit from inclusion in the Swearer Center ecosystem of faculty, advisors, and students.
- Fellows will have access to a curriculum designed to introduce and strengthen skills for social innovation in partnership with the Social Enterprise Greenhouse, community organizations and campus partners.
- Fellows will also have access to hands-on learning and mentorship through their community-based internships.
- Fellows receive an annual stipend of $2,000.
In year one, fellows will participate in regular workshops and intern with a community-based organization in Rhode Island. In year two, fellows continue engaging in regular workshops and can choose to either (1) explore a social innovation project of their own and/or (2) continue interning with the community-based organization they were matched with.
Eligibility/Timeline
The Social Innovation Fellowship is a two-year program and thus is open to first-year and second-year undergraduate students.
Apply
The Social Innovation Fellowship application opens every December in UFunds.
Contact
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Austin Wilson
Manager, Community-Engaged Learning
Paris Dior ‘25, a Social Innovation Fellow at the Swearer Center, is also pursuing the Nelson Center’s Entrepreneurship Certificate while concentrating in International and Public Affairs.
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