True Costs Initiative seeks a rebalancing of who bears the true social and environmental costs of business enterprise by advancing corporate accountability, ensuring strong legal systems, and prioritizing people, not profit. A critical part of that work includes seeding new ideas by investing in the next generation of scientists, lawyers, and community advocates recognizing the historical barriers to access to funding and other opportunities. Therefore, we are committed to supporting the work of scientists, emerging and rising lawyers and legal/community advocates who are utilizing their knowledge and expertise to help protect human and environmental rights and aligning with public interest organizations that guide and amplify that work. Through our Fellowship Program we center the relationship between Fellows and the public interest and non-profit host organizations in the environmental and human rights space that guide, train, mentor and support them.
To support our Fellows, we:
· Partner with existing public interest and non-profit organizations that are current or past TCI partners to host Fellows
· Recommend grants to host organizations to enable them to collaborate with prospective fellows based on their reciprocal partnership
· Share research, learning, and other outputs from our Fellows with the wider human and environmental rights and corporate accountability communities to further amplify Fellows’ projects and work
· Provide thought leadership on the nexus between legal, scientific, and other technical expertise in the human and environmental rights and corporate accountability space
· When opportunities arise, provide additional support to Fellows to deepen their knowledge, sharpen their expertise, and amplify their work and advocacy
· Offer the opportunity to connect to TCI’s broader network of partners
· Offer a reciprocal learning relationship with the TCI Team
Fellowships are provided by invitation only through current or past TCI partners acting as host organizations to prospective Fellows.