Focus 2012: Connection. Collaboration. Impact.

Every five years, we do something unique. We take a full year to strengthen the fellowship experience for the Fellows we've engaged in the past and those we have yet to meet.

We know that the enduring value of the Kinship experience extends well beyond our training program. Instead of introducing a new cohort of Fellows and hosting a month-long training this year, we are investing the year in programs and activities to re-engage our Fellows and the broader environmental field, to reconnect Fellows with one another, and to encourage renewed collaboration.

Our Fellows make up a global community, so the Focus 2012 year includes opportunities to connect in-person and virtually. Many Fellows are taking this year to organize around the idea of creating impact: teaching each other, launching regional chapters and affinity groups, and fostering ideas for future projects. The initiatives launched this year will provide platforms for continued collaboration after Focus 2012.

Learn more about Focus 2012.

The in-person Focus 2012 events include two International Regional Workshops, a Focus 2012 Conference, and a Kinship panel discussion at a sustainability partnerships conference in May. The online events include a topical Webinar Series featuring expert Fellows speaking about their areas of work, as well as opportunities for virtual interaction at the conference. Kinship also launched a Fellows Directory where Fellows are able to have a public profile listing their areas of expertise.

These initiatives are our way of making sure that the program continues to evolve and grow in ways that make the fellowship experience even more powerful and enable our Fellows to build on the experience to create more impact in their own communities and around the world.

Kinship Conservation Fellows is a ground-breaking environmental leadership program that emphasizes market-based solutions to environmental problems. Kinship's dynamic global network of 174 Fellows in 46 countries and 6 continents is collaborative, entrepreneurial, and dedicated to effective conservation.

THE PROGRAM

• Month-long in-residence program
• Core instruction in the application of market-based tools
• Training in Adaptive Leadership skills, economic, finance and business management practices
• Hands-on application of learning via individual and group projects
• Resident and guest faculty with international expertise
• Inclusion in a global
  Fellows community
• $6,000 stipend award with lodging provided

Program Overview

• Mid-career conservation professional
• 5+ years experience
• Demonstrated leader, innovative thinker, mission-driven achiever