Gap Year Paid Opportunities

Baltimore Community Fellowships - Open Society Institute
The program seeks dynamic activists and social entrepreneurs interested in implementing projects that address problems in underserved communities in Baltimore City. 

Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship
An eleven-month program for those seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty. For half their term of service, fellows are placed with urban and rural community-based organizations all over the country. They then move to Washington, DC to complete the year with national organizations. 

Charles Koch Institute Programs
Professional education, research, and training programs to prepare professionals for careers in advancing economic freedom, such as the Koch Associate Program and the Koch Internship Program.

Echoing Green
Two-year fellowship program to supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. 

Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
Located in Washington D.C, an opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience by helping non-profit, public-interest organizations working on peace and security issues.

Idealist Fellowship Forum
This discussion board offers information on various fellowship opportunities for those interested in work within the nonprofit sector.

Insight Collaborative Fellowships
Through intensive training and planning, Fellows develop and implement innovative programs throughout the world in a series of three-month placements. Incorporating the knowledge and experience of local partners in the field, Fellows provide training, manage teams, coordinate projects, and help organizations address the needs of those affected by conflict.

Jewish Organizing Initiative
The fellowship year for young Jewish adults (generally ages 22-30) involves work in social justice community or labor organizations, generally in low-income community organizations, and weekly learning and reflection about organizing for justice, Judaism, and community building.

Kettering Foundation
The Ohio-based Kettering Foundation is an "independent, nonpartisan research organization rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research." They offer research fellowships to doctoral students as well as opportunities in journalism & democracy and international civil society. Salary and benefits are provided, and the application deadline is mid-March.

Public Allies
Public Allies selects the communities’ most promising young leaders, ages 18-30, who commit to a rigorous and rewarding ten-month program of full-time, paid apprenticeships in community organizations, team service projects and weekly leadership training. 

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
RMYC provides young adults (ages 16-25) with comprehensive services to help them develop job skills, work ethic, environmental awareness and healthy lifestyles. 

Teaching fellowships are designed for talented individuals— whether they have already led a career in another field or have just graduated from college— who seek to make systemic changes to our society through the education system. Fellows are usually placed in urban public schools where the demand for teachers is high. There is a particular need for those with a background in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Fellows can draw upon their past experiences but are not required to have a traditional teaching degree.  Most programs offer paid training prior to the school year and ongoing support throughout the program, some offering support pursuing teaching credential at a local college or unversity.

Most programs are a one-year commitment and with deadlines typically fallin in October or November. Program benefits vary, but most paid positions with salary and benefits such as health insurance, housing assistance, and loan forgiveness.  Review each program in detail to learn more. 

Andover Teaching Fellowship Program
One-year program at Phillips Andover Academy (boarding school) in Andover, MA.

Baltimore City Teaching Residency

Citizen Schools
A two-year, leadership development experience, including service as a team leader at a Citizen Schools campus, 

City Teaching Alliance
Locations: Baltimore, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington DC.

Close-Up, Washington, D.C.

Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships
Teach in elementary and secondary schools worldwide

Greenwich Country Day School- Co-Teacher Program
1 or 2 year internship in an elementary level classroom

Institute of Reading Development
Offers full-time, summer teaching positions

Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles Teaching Fellowships
For those with a bachelor's degree in science, engineering or mathematics. committed to teaching high school science and/or mathematics in U.S. schools. 

The New Teacher Project
15 teaching fellowship programs, including Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Louisiana, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Nashville, Oakland, Phoenix, St. Paul, Texas and Baltimore.

New York City Teaching Fellows

Philadelphia Teaching Fellows

Teach for America
Two-year program to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America

teachNOLA
Teach in New Orleans public schools

Garden Club Scholarships
Offers scholarships "to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement."

Green Corps
Green Corps’ mission is to teach the next generation of environmental leaders the strategies and skills they’ll need to win tomorrow’s environmental battles while providing critical field support for today’s pressing environmental problems. Green Corps provides transportation to and from trainings after August training, as well as subsidized housing during the first Introductory Classroom Training in Boston. 

Student Conservation Association
All positions (in  national parks and forests, historic and cultural resources, and urban green space) are expense-paid and tuition free. Conservation internships range from three up to twelve months in over 50 disciplines.

Presidential Management Fellows
Offers a two-year, rigorous leadership program with developmental fellowships at various Federal agencies. Recruits outstanding graduate students from various programs of study.

Devereaux Institute of Clinical Training & Research
The full-time, 12-month Professional Psychology Traineeship and Externship experiential learning programs are intended for recent college graduates who are considering graduate study in psychology or a related behavioral healthcare field. The program provides a supervised learning experience combining didactic and hands-on training. A major goal of the programs is to expose trainees and externs to the variety of roles and functions of practicing professional psychologists and thereby enable them to consolidate and refine their career goals before making an informed decision to enter professional psychology as a career.