Third Millennium Fellowships | Third Millennium Fellows

Through the Third Millennium Foundation's Fellowship programs, college students, graduate students and activists receive financial and professional support that enables them to build their capacity across a full range of human rights issues. In doing so, the Foundation aims to develop a cadre of young activists from different countries whose understanding of, commitment to, and effectiveness in human rights work has been enhanced.

These Fellowships provide a unique opportunity for in-depth exposure to and reflection on a broad range of perspectives, situations and experiences related to human rights work. The Foundation believes that many different communities can be profoundly affected by supporting a small number of motivated individuals. The Foundation has been supporting various Fellowship programs since 2001 and continues to emphasize individual entrepreneurs and activists as catalysts for change.

Education
Each year, the Foundation welcomes international educators, human rights leaders, scholars and practitioners of tolerance education primarily from the Global South to come for a three-month residency in New York.

During their stay they work on a specific project that focuses on childhood education, respect for diversity and/or the promotion tolerance and social justice. The Foundation provides it's Fellows with professional mentorship, technical assistance, speaking opportunities, and other capacity building activities.

The Fellows are proven, self motivated professionals preferably, but not exclusively from the Global South who would like to accomplish a specific project, conduct action research in tolerance education, engage in networking, and further develop their skills to reflect on their practice.

Human Rights
The Third Millennium Foundation (TMF) Human Rights Fellowships provide one year of financial support to recently graduated students, during which they spend six months interning with a NGO in the Global North and six months with an NGO in the Global South. Fellows are encouraged to work with grassroots organizations in the country where he or she intends to pursue his or her professional career.

Through the unique design of this program, Fellows are not only able to gain valuable experiences in human rights; they are also able to help build the capacity of local, national, and international NGOs.

The program builds North-South networks, collaborations, and friendships and provides young leaders frontline experience in human rights advocacy.

By relying on relationships with partner universities throughout the world, the TMF Fellowships work to further strengthen the relationships between on-the-ground human rights work and academia.