What would you do in your community with $40,000?

The Pathy Foundation Fellowship is an intensive 12-month experiential learning opportunity for you to lead a self-directed community-focused project in a community you have a meaningful connection with, anywhere in the world.

Whether revitalizing Mi’kmaq identity in Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland), developing health networks with Somali diaspora in Ottawa, creating land-based resilience programming for youth in Montreal, establishing social enterprise and improving menstrual hygiene in Godhra, India, or engaging youth in participatory sexual and reproductive health education in Yangon, Myanmar, Fellows have worked across the globe on a wide variety of projects, each with a unique focus. Click here to delve deeper into the past thematic areas where Fellows have worked.

Upon selection to the program, Fellows are provided with up to $40,000 to contribute to:

  • a living allowance (including housing, food, local transport and insurance);
  • travel and travel-related expenses, to cover airfares to and from home locations and the community (if required), and, for those traveling internationally, such things as visas, immunizations and health insurance; and
  • initiative funding, to cover expenses such as start-up and operational costs.

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“The fellowship provided the space I needed to do some important self-work. The fellowship team emphasized that a crucial dimension of the fellowship year was working on the self and examining one’s interior world, vision, and needs in order to thrive and to help the initiative thrive in tandem.”

Gabriela Kassel Gomez, Cohort 3 (2017-18)

“The fellowship gives you a rare combination; The autonomy to self-direct your proposed project, while also providing a wide range of tools, supports and expertise for success.”

JOHN PAUL DOBSON, Cohort 3 (2017-18)

“This experience has fundamentally changed me as a leader and strengthened my capacity as a change maker…”

Asia Van Buuren, Cohort 1 (2015-16)

“This past year has been one of massive growth and learning, both personally and professionally … I am ending this fellowship in the best and most positive frame of mind I have been in for a long time, and more committed than ever to continue my work in sexual and reproductive health.”

Grace Sheehy, Cohort 1 (2015-16)

“I saw that to be a change maker, you need heart and empathy. I saw a vision that I was able to carry out with my community and along the way, I got a great support system and created lasting partnerships with people who share the same vision.”

Hanan Ghazal, Cohort 5 (2019-20)

“The fellowship has given me the time, space, resources, and guidance for a huge personal and professional learning experience. This includes progress in my life goals as well as my ability to conceptualize and articulate them.”

Kai Thomas, Cohort 2 (2016-17)

“I learned that I had the personal strength and fortitude to deal with big problems, all on my own. And conversely: I also learned that it was not a sign of my weakness or lack of integrity to reach out to others when hit with big problems.”

Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma, Cohort 2 (2016-17)

BECOME A FELLOW

This Fellowship is for graduating full-time students from McGill, uOttawa, Queen’s, Bishop’s, StFX and Carleton universities who are 29 years old or under and are Canadian citizens or permanent residents.

APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2024-25 COHORT ARE NOW CLOSED.

For assistance with your application, please reach out to pathyfellowship@stfx.ca, or visit https://linktr.ee/pathyfellowship.

Not sure if you’re eligible? Interested in applying but need more information?

Not sure if you’re eligible? Interested in applying but need more information?

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