Overview
The Indicorps fellowship is a profound personal experience and an opportunity to understand participatory development through intense voluntary service. The structured program encourages participants to leave their comfort zones, place others' interests before their own, test their own potential to affect change, explore their relationship with India, and understand what it means to lead by committing themselves to innovative grassroots projects. Indicorps believes that giving one's time and energy, without any attachment to the outcome, regardless of the circumstances, is an unparalleled personal experience in service. At the same time, the fellowship is a chance for fellows to address their own identity, recognize their personal boundaries, and understand how to produce change in their environment(s). The fellowship is deeply rewarding, a transformational and challenging personal journey, and part of Indicorps’ collective experiment for change.
More about the Fellowship program:
Each year, Indicorps selects young professionals of Indian origin for one and two year service fellowships with grassroots service organizations in India. To be eligible for the fellowship program, you must be a person of Indian origin (Government of India definition) and have at minimum a university degree or five years work experience. Individuals apply specifically to projects of their interest.
The first month of the fellowship involves an -intense, physically and mentally rigorous, month-long orientation to India, the Indicorps philosophy, and practical living. In conjunction with grassroots fieldwork, Indicorps also requires fellows to attend periodic workshops that encourage participants to deepen their understanding of Indian development, to reflect, to share progress, to collectively solve problems, and to re-energize. Some fellows opt for a second year to broaden their understanding of development and take leadership in managing projects or Indicorps programs.
The fellowship has stringent documentation requirements and promotes self-accountability. The program is carefully crafted to consider long-term impact and to defy common critiques of both international volunteers and the organizations with which they work.
Indicorps provides a nominal stipend to enable fellows to live simply and work in India for the duration of their fellowship. Basic room, board, and fellowship-related travel are covered by Indicorps or the local project partner organization. Indicorps is a total immersion program and encourages fellows to be a part of their communities to the greatest extent possible - including attempting to live within the means of their location.
NOTE: The Indicorps stipend is designed to cover only basic living costs, some of which may be provided in-kind. The stipend does not include airfare to/from the applicant's current location, incidentals, health care or insurance, or a personal spending allowance. Participants will incur some out-of-pocket personal expenses during the fellowship year.
Evaluation for effort:
As part of our commitment to development, Indicorps will continually evaluate for effort. Indicorps reserves the right, at any stage of the program, to dismiss fellows who do not embrace the spirit and/or commitments underlying the Indicorps concept.
Indicorps Online Application System
Application : Indicorps Fellowship Starting 14 August, 2011
Application Deadline: Due 15 March, 2011 (midnight, EST)
Applications for August, 2011 are currently available.
Application Timeline
15 Mar, 2011 Complete applications and supplemental materials due (postmark date)
03 Apr, 2011 Phone or personal interviews completed (interviews occur on a rolling basis)
20 Apr, 2011 Fellowship recipients and wait-listed applicants notified
30 Apr, 2011 Acceptance deadline for fellowship recipients (wait-listed status notified)
01 May, 2011 Fellowship packet mailed to finalized 2011 Indicorps fellows
14 Aug, 2011 Fellows required to report at the Indicorps orientation site in India
A complete Indicorps application includes the following:
Application Part One, including:
- General Applicant Information
- Short Answer and Essays (Various)
- Two Outside References
- Health and Medical Form
- Current Resume / Curriculum Vitae
- Transcript (if currently enrolled in a graduate/undergraduate program)
All supplemental and required materials arriving by conventional mail should be sent to:
Indicorps
3418 Highway 6 South
Suite B #309
Houston, Texas 77082
United States of America
Phone: 281.617.1057
For application or fellowship questions, please email apply@indicorps.org
http://www.indicorps.org/page_details.php?page_id=18
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this fellowship
The Indicorps fellowship is a profound personal experience and an opportunity to understand participatory development through intense voluntary service. The structured program encourages participants to leave their comfort zones, place others' interests before their own, test their own potential to affect change, explore their relationship with India, and understand what it means to lead by committing themselves to innovative grassroots projects. Indicorps believes that giving one's time and energy, without any attachment to the outcome, regardless of the circumstances, is an unparalleled personal experience in service. At the same time, the fellowship is a chance for fellows to address their own identity, recognize their personal boundaries, and understand how to produce change in their environment(s). The fellowship is deeply rewarding, a transformational and challenging personal journey, and part of Indicorps’ collective experiment for change.
More about the Fellowship program:
Each year, Indicorps selects young professionals of Indian origin for one and two year service fellowships with grassroots service organizations in India. To be eligible for the fellowship program, you must be a person of Indian origin (Government of India definition) and have at minimum a university degree or five years work experience. Individuals apply specifically to projects of their interest.
The first month of the fellowship involves an -intense, physically and mentally rigorous, month-long orientation to India, the Indicorps philosophy, and practical living. In conjunction with grassroots fieldwork, Indicorps also requires fellows to attend periodic workshops that encourage participants to deepen their understanding of Indian development, to reflect, to share progress, to collectively solve problems, and to re-energize. Some fellows opt for a second year to broaden their understanding of development and take leadership in managing projects or Indicorps programs.
The fellowship has stringent documentation requirements and promotes self-accountability. The program is carefully crafted to consider long-term impact and to defy common critiques of both international volunteers and the organizations with which they work.
Indicorps provides a nominal stipend to enable fellows to live simply and work in India for the duration of their fellowship. Basic room, board, and fellowship-related travel are covered by Indicorps or the local project partner organization. Indicorps is a total immersion program and encourages fellows to be a part of their communities to the greatest extent possible - including attempting to live within the means of their location.
NOTE: The Indicorps stipend is designed to cover only basic living costs, some of which may be provided in-kind. The stipend does not include airfare to/from the applicant's current location, incidentals, health care or insurance, or a personal spending allowance. Participants will incur some out-of-pocket personal expenses during the fellowship year.
Evaluation for effort:
As part of our commitment to development, Indicorps will continually evaluate for effort. Indicorps reserves the right, at any stage of the program, to dismiss fellows who do not embrace the spirit and/or commitments underlying the Indicorps concept.
Indicorps Online Application System
Application : Indicorps Fellowship Starting 14 August, 2011
Application Deadline: Due 15 March, 2011 (midnight, EST)
Applications for August, 2011 are currently available.
Application Timeline
15 Mar, 2011 Complete applications and supplemental materials due (postmark date)
03 Apr, 2011 Phone or personal interviews completed (interviews occur on a rolling basis)
20 Apr, 2011 Fellowship recipients and wait-listed applicants notified
30 Apr, 2011 Acceptance deadline for fellowship recipients (wait-listed status notified)
01 May, 2011 Fellowship packet mailed to finalized 2011 Indicorps fellows
14 Aug, 2011 Fellows required to report at the Indicorps orientation site in India
A complete Indicorps application includes the following:
Application Part One, including:
- General Applicant Information
- Short Answer and Essays (Various)
- Two Outside References
- Health and Medical Form
- Current Resume / Curriculum Vitae
- Transcript (if currently enrolled in a graduate/undergraduate program)
All supplemental and required materials arriving by conventional mail should be sent to:
Indicorps
3418 Highway 6 South
Suite B #309
Houston, Texas 77082
United States of America
Phone: 281.617.1057
For application or fellowship questions, please email apply@indicorps.org
http://www.indicorps.org/page_details.php?page_id=18
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this fellowship
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