Community Solutions Program 2024 in USA | Fully Funded Program in USA| US Exchange program


Calling all dedicated community leaders! Gird up your loins and get ready to take your impact to the next level. Your journey to positive change starts now. The Community Solutions Program 2024 is your gateway to a year-long professional development journey. The program focuses on democracy, human rights, the environment, peace, and gender equality. This is an amazing opportunity to get hands-on experience, personalized coaching, and the chance to lead a transformative project in your home country.

The community solutions program is a year-long professional leadership development program designed for established community leaders trying to impact their communities positively by contributing to eliminating issues related to democracy, human rights, conflict resolution, environment, and gender. The IREX Community Solutions Program provides a four-month fellowship in the United States; during these four months, the fellows get attached to this organization for hands-on practice across the U.S. This 4-month practice provides personalized leadership coaching and training to fellows through a graduate-level leadership curriculum, followed by a six-month community project to be implemented in their home country.

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In this program, the community leaders will be attached to relevant host organizations across the US for practice, gaining skills and technical expertise. The fellows will participate in the Community Leadership Institute where they will have the opportunity to learn through personalized leadership coaching and training through a graduate-level leadership curriculum, followed by a community project to be implemented in their home country. With the support of their U.S. host organizations, Community Solutions Fellows will design and plan a community development initiative/project to carry out in their home communities.

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Benefits:

  • Round-trip airfare
  • J1 Visa
  • Monthly allowance to cover accommodation, food, and living expenses while in the U.S. 
  • Accessibility accommodations, such as ADA-accessible rooms for in-person training
  •  Software such as JAWS
  • Community assistance and community training
  • Accident and sickness health coverage
  • Networking Opportunity
  • Professional growth

Eligibility Criteria:

To be eligible for the Community Solutions Program the candidates must:
  • Be between the ages of 26 and 39 as of January 1, 2024
  • Be a citizen of one of the eligible countries
  • Not a current IREX employee or consultant, or their immediate family member
  • Be living and working in your home country (individuals with refugee status working on behalf of their home community may be given special consideration)
  • Have at least two years of experience working for community development, either as a full-time/part-time employee or volunteer
  • Not currently be participating in an academic, training, or research program in the U.S.
  • High level of proficiency in spoken and written English at the time of application (The semi-finalists will be required to submit scores of IELTS/TOFEL)
  • Be available to travel to the U.S. for four months from August to December 2024
  • Not be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. and have not applied for U.S. permanent residency within the past three years
  • Be committed to returning to your home country for a minimum of two years after completing the program
  • People from different countries of the regions including Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, and the Western Hemisphere are eligible to apply. Scroll down on this link to find the eligible countries. For an overview, please visit Community Solutions and find the accessibility resources.
                      
For official application information for the Community Solutions Program visit here. To register and apply, go here.

Application Deadline:

Nov 1, 2023. 
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