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Emerging Leaders

The Emerging Leaders Network inspires, equips, and connects interfaith leaders to build on our nation’s key strength of religious diversity.

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Build relationships with other professionals interested in promoting interfaith cooperation in your field.

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About the Emerging Leaders Network

The Big Picture

We connect and support young professionals dedicated to building on America’s foundational strength of religious diversity.

The Network

Interfaith America’s Emerging Leaders Network is composed of more than two thousand diverse, multifaceted, innovative, and motivated individuals, who influence how healthcare, business, non-profits, religious communities, government, and other sectors engage with religious diversity.

The Opportunity

Interfaith America’s Emerging Leaders have access to network of incredible individuals and can connect with them through mentorship opportunities, Social Media (Facebook and LinkedIn groups), local gatherings, and an annual national convening. There are also exclusive grant opportunities such as the Building Interfaith America Grants and fellowships such as the Interfaith Innovation and Stewarding the Common Good Fellowships.

Grants & Fellowships for Emerging Leaders

Identify a need or opportunity in your community, propose a project to address it, and leverage the strength of interfaith cooperation to achieve your goal.
Deepen your interfaith leadership skills by joining a select cohort of peers for a yearlong fellowship, and completing a project using principles of interfaith cooperation to directly respond to a need you’ve identified within your community.
Deepen your understanding of religious expression and develop journalism skills specific to covering religion, faith, and spirituality.
The Stewarding the Common Good Fellowship offers coaching, a cohort experience, and workshops to interfaith leaders who seek to bridge deep divisions.

Emerging Leaders Resources

Interfaith America offers a suite of educational resources to help you realize your goals. 

Orientation to the vision, knowledge, and skills that we use to bring about the realization of a truly Interfaith America.
Build relationships with other professionals interested in promoting interfaith cooperation in your field.
Better understand the exciting ways in which interfaith skill sets and competencies are applicable in professional settings.

Become an Emerging Leader

The Emerging Leaders Network inspires, equips, and connects interfaith leaders to build on our nation’s key strength of religious diversity.

The Emerging Leaders Network inspires me to carry out projects I’d only dreamed of. We learn from and inspire each other.

— MELANIE YOUNG, FOUNDER OF INFINITE MINDS TUTORING

Join us today!

Let’s build an interfaith America, where people of all beliefs work together for the common good.

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