Fellowship Program

The Stoneleigh Fellowship

The Stoneleigh Foundation Fellowship is for mid- to senior-career professionals and offers a tremendous opportunity for people with good ideas to act on them.

Through Stoneleigh Foundation fellowships, we identify and support practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to bring experience and creativity to the child welfare, education, and juvenile justice systems. We believe that by giving these talented professionals the time and resources to develop solutions to both entrenched and emerging issues in the field, we can unite research with policy and practice to bring about positive change to improve the well-being of children and youth.

The purpose of the fellowship is to support individuals who will:

  • Develop new approaches to entrenched problems (and tackle emerging ones) in children- and youth-serving systems;
  • Identify and disseminate promising programs and practices;
  • Enrich the knowledge base that informs and affects both public policy and practice; and
  • Improve outcomes and opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth.

Stoneleigh Foundation supports individuals working at different stages of problem-solving.

  • Seeding: Support and visibility for work or ideas that show great promise, thereby contributing to the development of viable new solutions;
  • Tipping: Support and visibility for current work that effectively addresses critical issues, thereby contributing to the sustainability and/or expansion of viable strategies for improvement;
  • Dissemination: Providing resources that bring visibility and usage to promising research and/or practice, and help build more effective linkages between research, policy and practice.

In order to increase the likelihood that funded work will have long-term effectiveness, connections between fellows and leaders in the field—such as subject matter experts, academic institutions and non-profit organizations—are fostered. We work to build a community of fellows and to create an esprit de corps in which fellows and their work can flourish.

Click here to learn more about the Stoneleigh Fellowship program.