Global Interfaith Leaders Fellowship on Climate Change

✓ FFOP and Duke Divinity School’s fellowship is designed to equip and support emerging faith leaders with knowledge, mentorship, and community to lead climate initiatives with profound wisdom and impact.
✓ The fellowship offers a truly global experience. Between 2023 and 2025, we trained over 75 leaders from over 20 countries, representing an extraordinary diversity of religious and indigenous traditions.
✓ Each cohort carries countless stories of friendships and alliances forged around a powerful shared mission: addressing climate change as the defining moral crisis of our time.
✓ Now in its fourth year, we are inviting 20 highly ambitious, values-driven faith leaders committed to meaningful spiritual growth, collective effort, and an unrelenting pursuit to build a healthier planet, to join us in advancing this mission.

✓ Be between the ages of 25 and 40 at the time of application
✓ Demonstrate relevant academic, professional, or volunteer experience in areas such as environmental action, faith-based initiative, community organizing, or climate advocacy
✓ Have access to local networks (social, professional, or religious) or demonstrate a strong commitment to building and mobilizing such networks
✓ Be fluent in spoken and written English

✓ Participate fully in all components of the fellowship, including pre-program preparation and post-fellowship activities
✓ Lead or meaningfully contribute to a faith-based climate action project following the fellowship
✓ Engage actively in collaborative learning, dialogue, and peer exchange
✓ Remain involved with the FFOP Alumni Association and its initiatives

By the end of the fellowship, fellows will have:
✓ Deepened their theological grounding in environmental stewardship, examining how faith traditions shape leadership, justice, and care for creation
✓ Developed advanced community engagement strategies tailored to multifaith and multicultural contexts
✓ Strengthened communication and advocacy skills, enabling them to listen deeply, shape public narratives, and engage decision-makers with clarity and empathy
✓ Cultivated values-driven, inclusive leadership, building trust-based collaborations across religious and cultural boundaries
✓ Need-based bursaries are available to eligible applicants.