Applications Are Rolling In!

The window to apply to the Fellows program (January -May 2025) is OPEN!

Are you an early stage nonprofit leader?

Here's what you get: $7500, expert guidance, tailored consulting, free (to you) interns, support services, a powerful network and much more.

Meet Some of Our Previous Fellows

Apply to be a part of our next cohort of diverse, mission- driven and very cool people!

Apply to be a Fellow here

Check out the FAQs here

Understanding Our Past:

Improving Our Future

Together with NYU Steinhardt, the Fund for the City of New York, and fifty or so foundation trustees, we're heading to the Legacy Museum in Montgomery to hear from Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson and experience a weekend of learning and deep reflection.

Learn more about the Summit Here

Big News from Our Fellows Program Alum!

Cultivators Founder and Urban Gardening Expert Kashon Dubose Featured on NY1

Kashon Dubose went on NY1 to talk about what produce is in season, joining local community gardens, and starting your own home gardens in NYC.

Watch Kashon's NY1 Interview Here

Start Lighthouse is Opening Another Literacy Hub

In late September, P.S. 161, the Juan Ponce De Leon School, is getting a Literacy Hub. Hat tip to The Home Depot Foundation and the Ten To One organization for supporting Fellow alum Rina Madhani, who hatched her strategy for Start Lighthouse in our program.

Learn more about Start Lighthouse here

PressPassNYC Founder Lara Bergen Named "Friend of Scholastic Journalism" by the Scholastic Journalism Association

Since we helped her launch her nonprofit, she's helped open nearly thirty student-run news sites in NYC public high schools. More to come!

Read more about it here

Interesting Opportunities:

Free Seminar and A Dream Job

Back to School: Fun or ....Anguish?

Maybe you need to attend a FREE family seminar from EGF Accelerator Fellow Resha Conroy, founder of Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children. You can register for a free workshop on ADHD and Executive Functioning

September 18 @6 pm

You will get support and information on how to make learning more accessible for your child (or your students) and how to let the joy back in.

Access previous seminars

Literacy Partners NYC

Chief Operating Officer

Salary: $140,000-$150,000

Hybrid: (NYC)

Deadline: Open till filled but don't procrastinate. Like the Lotto commercial says, You gotta be in it to win it.

The new CEO, and friend of the EGF Accelerator, is looking for a rockstar COO to take this legacy organization to the next level. Their mission— to bolster literacy rates among vulnerable populations in our city— is a great one. They are poised and ready for a new chapter. Be part of it!

Apply to Literacy Partners here

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The EGF Accelerator is supporting strong leaders in sustainable nonprofits that are working to improve the education and life outcomes for low-income New Yorkers. We offer incubation, advanced leadership development, a remote Fellows program, and fund journalism about educational equity. Want to know more? Drop us a line. Peg@egfaccelerator.org