Emerging Policy Leaders Fellowship Program

Building better child and family policy by supporting the next generation of cross-partisan leaders, ideas, and institutions.

All around us you can see the strain on policy frameworks built for another era, and the institutions supporting them.

With child and family policy struggling to meet the challenges of modern crises, the solution is not preserving the status quo, but building what comes next.

Making progress requires the next generation of cross-partisan leaders to be ready to build the ideas and institutions that shape federal policy’s foundations.

Bolder Horizon is launching our Emerging Policy Leaders Fellowship to incubate those leaders, so that our community can build a bolder future for families.

About The Fellowship

Bolder Horizon’s Emerging Policy Leaders Fellowship is for innovative mid-career policy leaders emerging into career stride.

We aren’t selecting for potential or pedigree; this is a high-bar fellowship for those bold enough to build next-generation institutions and ideas now. We know no party or perspective has a monopoly on creative ideas, so we intentionally seek and support ideologically and intellectually diverse fellows.

Our fellows’ projects accelerate the emergence of new ideas and institutions, to make child and family policy more effective and strategic.

Fellows will be an integral part of the Bolder Horizon community, contributing to our educational resources and Civic Forum, and learning together through a curriculum featuring faculty across the ideological and policy spectrums.

Each fellow will deliver a novel federal policy project that is bold and significant, such as:

  • Designing and and starting a new child and family policy initiative or organization;

  • Prototyping and refining an innovative product or resource relevant to child and family policymaking; or

  • Developing a new and comprehensive policy proposal to address a complex issue.

Bolder Horizon’s
Emerging Policy Leaders Fellowship
is launching soon.

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