The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) seeks grant applicants to join its DeFi Fellows Program. Responses to this RFP may be submitted through our grant application form or via email to [email protected].

Overview

The DeFi Fellows Program (DFP) intends to cultivate a vanguard of DeFi policy experts at organizations around the world. Organizations who participate in the DFP will receive funding from the DEF to cover all expenses associated with hiring, training, and funding a fellow who will focus on studying DeFi policy issues.

Details and timeline

The DEF intends to fund multiple organizations’ participation in the DFP. After the DEF selects which organizations will participate in the first iteration of the program, the organizations will conduct their own search for the individual they would like to bring on as a fellow and have participate in the program. A hired fellow will be a member of the organization’s staff with the expectation that the fellow will be responsible for work and activities focused on DeFi.

We seek a range of organizations to participate in the DFP, including think tanks, lobbying groups, advocacy organizations, etc. Including a range of organizations in the program will cultivate unique and diverse skills among the cohort of fellows.

The DEF will provide funding for organizations to participate in the program . If your organization is interested in participating in the DEF’s DeFi Fellows Program, please submit a response to this RFP that explains how a fellow would augment your organization’s current work and what unique skills a fellow could expect to learn over the course of their time at your organization