Came across Echoing Green because one of our friends, John Alford, was a 2007 Fellow. Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to nearly 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world.

To accelerate social change, Echoing Green invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. Through a two-year fellowship program, we help our network of visionaries develop new solutions to society’s most difficult problems. These social entrepreneurs and their organizations work to solve deeply-rooted social, environmental, economic, and political inequities to ensure equal access and to help all individuals reach their potential. To date, Echoing Green has invested $25 million in seed funding to nearly 450 social entrepreneurs and their innovative organizations.

We are huge fans of what they’re doing. Especially since they’ve invested in over $25M in seed funding! Looking around the site, they do this through for ways: identifying visionaries, investing in innovation, providing hands-on support, and connecting people. Wow, powerful! They are accepting applications for 2008 fellowships which is very, very competitive. Check out the application here.