Stoneleigh Fellowship

Stoneleigh Fellowship is sponsored by Stoneleigh Foundation. The Stoneleigh Fellowship offers funding to visionary leaders to transform systems serving youth, focusing on innovative research and policy changes. It supports individuals from diverse backgrounds to pursue impactful projects over two to three years in Philadelphia.

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The Stoneleigh Fellowship provides accomplished leaders with multiyear funding to transform systems that serve youth. Addressing the challenges facing our community’s young people requires visionary leadership. It means bringing different systems together and advancing new ways of thinking about what is possible.

That’s why we provide exceptional individuals with the time and space to undertake groundbreaking research, improve policies and practices, change the narrative, and fundamentally transform how youth are served. Stoneleigh Fellows come from many disciplines and professional backgrounds and work to advance change in youth-serving systems, such as youth justice, child welfare, education, and health.

Our Fellows have included: Philadelphia’s Police Commissioner who expanded the city’s nationally recognized Police School Diversion Program to reduce youth arrest rates and prevent the collateral consequences of justice system involvement An attorney who worked within the School District of Philadelphia to create a comprehensive school safety strategy A researcher leading a five-year study on the health of young, child welfare-involved mothers and their children to identify strategies to break intergenerational cycles of abuse and neglect An emergency room doctor who replicated his hospital-based violence intervention model locally and nationally What distinguishes the Stoneleigh Fellowship?

Freedom to Pursue a Transformative Idea Our founders believed that individuals need dedicated time and space to develop the kinds of ideas that can generate lasting systems change. We provide salary support that allows Fellows to step back from their day-to-day job duties and use the majority of their time to pursue this work.

Ability to Design and Execute New Solutions Because we invest in people with a strong track record of working within or alongside systems, we give our Fellows the latitude to develop the best solution to the problem they’ve identified. Stoneleigh’s staff also work closely with Fellows to ensure their success by providing expert advice and connections to key influencers and funders.

We recognize that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions. We support Fellows to explore ideas that haven’t been tried before or to perfect the implementation of evidence-informed solutions. We also meet Fellows where they are professionally through flexible Fellowship terms and levels of support.

We understand that advancing change in large, complex systems doesn’t happen overnight. That’s why we provide Fellows multiple years of support to delve into these entrenched problems. In addition, Fellows become lifelong members of Stoneleigh’s alumni network—a committed group of social change leaders working to improve youth-serving systems.

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The Stoneleigh Foundation was founded in 2006 by John and Chara Haas to improve the life outcomes of our community's youth. We meet our mission by awarding Fellowships to exceptional leaders who advance change in the systems that serve these young people. We seek to improve the life outcomes of our community’s youth by advancing change in the systems that serve them.

Because we believe that youth are best served when systems work together to holistically address their needs, Stoneleigh prioritizes work designed to strengthen coordination between or among these systems. We award two types of projects that catalyze change within, alongside, and outside of youth-serving systems.

Our Fellowship Projects enhance how systems work together, improve practice, shift narratives, and generate new knowledge through action-oriented research. Our Youth Partnership Projects support youth-centric organizations that build the leadership and advocacy skills of young people. Youth Partnership Projects We are pragmatic and have a bias toward action.

We advance the field by hosting public events, publishing policy-relevant research and reports, and elevating the work of our Fellows and grantees in the media. We award two types of Fellowships to exceptional individuals who work within and alongside youth-serving systems to catalyze change.

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