Please upload one PDF document (no Word documents) including all
five components below and adhering to the guidelines below and those specified for
each component. Not following these guidelines will result in an incomplete
application which will not be considered for review. You may view a sample
of a complete document with each of the four components by
clicking here.
Guidelines
Your document must include your name and the name of the NYU school(s) to which you
are applying at the top right corner of each page. Page numbers should be included in
the bottom right corner of each page. Each new component should begin at the top of a
new page.
Resume divided into the following six sections:
- Education (including GPA and any standardized test scores and percentiles,
- Work Experience,
- Volunteer Experience (including any relevant non-paid research work and
conference
presentation(s),
- Honors/Scholarships/Awards (if applicable),
- Publications/Certifications/Professional Affiliations, and
- Other Relevant Skills/Interests.
Endeavour Statement/Job Description: If you have already launched a company or social
entrepreneurial endeavor, or have developed an idea for a social entrepreneurial
endeavor, please describe it or them in approximately 500 words. What was your theory of
change or business model, and why did it work or not work?
If you have not, provide a description of approximately 500 words for a job you would
like to realize five years from now. It could be for an existing position, or for
something not yet invented. It could be as head of an as yet unrealized organization or
any other role associated with it. It could be a logical extension of what you are
currently doing, or something completely different. Whatever the role, be sure to
touch on the specific responsibilities you imagine yourself having.
Essay: In approximately 500 words, describe the following: some previous experience
where you had the opportunity - working with others or alone - to participate in, design
or create a strategy for tackling an issue of social importance. Explain what the
problem was/is, how you became interested in the work, what your role was, what the
strategy was, and who your allies were. We are as interested in stories of failure as
much as we are interested in stories of success. Describe what you learned both about
yourself and about the challenge. Identify some of the particular obstacles you
encountered, and describe the ways in which you addressed them. Please include "Essay"
at the top of each page of your essay.
Biographical Sketch: Broadly speaking, the program attracts three types of
changemakers; 1) those that have or are in the process of developing an innovative idea
to address a specific social problem in a pattern-breaking, sustainable, and scalable
way, 2) those that will work in and/or build the infrastructure needed for social
entrepreneurial work to take root, including individuals who will practice their
profession in a social entrepreneurial organization (accountants, lawyers, etc.) and
individuals who want to improve the operations and management systems of public, private
and not-for-profit organizations and, 3) those who will bring action oriented awareness
on a national and/or global scale to particular social problems through, journalism, the
arts, photography, film making, television production and other media avenues.
These roles are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and one individual can play
multiple roles. Further, each role can be thought of having its own trajectory beginning
with the desire to change the world, and ending with the implementation of a pattern
breaking, sustainable and scalable idea or approach. Eligible applicants can be at
different points on these trajectories with some working to fully develop an idea, while
others may be ready to launch an idea, while still others may be ready to bring an
already launched idea more fully to scale. (See www.nyu.edu/reynolds for more
information.)
Imagine that you have been selected as a Reynolds Graduate Fellow. Please write a
biographical sketch of approximately 500 words that describes the experiences in your
personal history that have brought you to the Reynolds program. What qualities do you
see in yourself that would make you an effective changemaker as described above? Be sure
to discuss which changemaker role(s) you plan to play, and what you hope to accomplish
both during and following your Reynolds fellowship experience. Please include
"Biographical Sketch" on the top of each page of your biographical sketch.
Help converting your document to PDF.
Windows:
PDFCreator and CutePDF
are free programs that let you create PDFs. Download and install one of these programs.
Then convert your document by printing it and selecting the
PDFCreator or CutePDF option from the list of printers and saving the new
PDF file.
If you have
Adobe Acrobat
Professional or Adobe Distiller on your computer, you can also create a PDF by
printing your document and selecting Adobe PDF as your printer.
Mac:
Mac OS X includes built-in PDF printing.
Here are instructions: