General Fellowships
Applications for our 2025 Fall Meeting General Fellowships are due July 6
Thanks to the generous support of foundations and individual donors, The Philadelphia Society has a limited pool of funds to help support meeting attendance of graduate students, young faculty, and other young professionals who demonstrate interest in the intellectual renewal of a social order of free and responsible individuals, and who show promise of participating in this renewal through their future professional activities and, potentially, through future membership in The Philadelphia Society. Fellowships are competitively awarded for each meeting, and each applicant must certify that they do not have other sources of funding to cover registration and travel costs. (Individuals who work full-time for other educational foundations, think tanks and policy organizations should inquire about institutional reimbursement opportunities before applying for fellowship support.)
As the purpose of the fellowship program is to foster intellectual vitality and growth in the Society, a Fellowship Committee prioritizes funds for support of the strongest applicants, with a key measure of “strength” being likelihood of contributing to the intellectual renewal of a free society through fellowship and professional activities and likelihood of joining the Society. Candidates for fellowships typically include upper-level graduate students, junior faculty, think tank employees, grass roots leaders, and early-career businesspeople and attorneys. Current members, member applicants, and undergraduate students are not eligible for the Society’s fellowship programs.
Applications for fellowships are submitted for each meeting. Interested parties may contact our office for more information.
Limitations:
- An individual may be awarded fellowship support no more than three times.
- Any individual who has received a fellowship but who has failed to comply fully with the terms set forth will be ineligible to apply again.
- Individuals applying for Society membership should not apply for fellowships.
Terms:
- Fellowship awards typically include complimentary meeting registration and may include a travel stipend up to $500. Recipients are responsible for making their own travel and hotel arrangements.
- Fellowship attendees are required to submit a written report (no more than two pages) to the Executive Director of the Society within 30 days of the meeting attended. Travel stipends will be forfeited if no written report is received.
Please note: Fellowship attendance at Society meetings does not meet the attendance requirement for membership in the Society. Individuals must attend at least one Society meeting as a paying guest before they will qualify for nomination to membership.