Democracy Fellowship

Democracy Fellowship: Overview

Keseb Democracy Fellowship provides deep support to a mosaic of leading democracy entrepreneurs and their organizations from Brazil, South Africa, and the United States. The Fellowship offers a 2-year community of learning and practice, organizational funding, and wellness stipend. To build their organizational and leadership capacity, Keseb Democracy Fellows engage in in-person retreats and virtual sessions supported by Keseb’s team as well as leading subject matter, country-level, and transnational experts. Through this multifaceted support, Fellows expand and deepen their knowledge base, exchange lessons and strategies to inform their efforts, and build a community of support and solidarity.

Focus areas and selection criteria

Aligned with Keseb’s mission to advance inclusive and resilient democracies, we select organizations working towards one or more of the below democracy outcomes:

Free, fair, and trusted elections

Diverse, representative, and pro-democratic public leadership

Healthy information ecosystems

Empowered and engaged constituents

We select fellows and organizations using a set of eligibility and impact criteria including:

Currently, our process is by invitation only and we are not accepting applications. However, we invite democracy entrepreneurs and their organizations to fill out an interest form if they would like to be considered in future cycles.