Budgeting your Echoing Green Fellowship funds

The Echoing Green Fellowship gives early-stage social entrepreneurs seed capital to launch their organizations. A well-documented figure is about $80,000 over two years, with the current structure at $100,000 over 18 months, plus a health-insurance stipend and a professional-development stipend.

The money supports both you as a founder and your early organization, so it helps to split your budget into living costs and venture costs.

Use clear groups: founder living and support, legal and compliance, team and staffing, program and product, marketing and outreach, and travel and fundraising. Tag each expense to a group so you can see where the seed funding is going.

Early ventures spend in bursts, so logging as you go keeps your runway visible and your reporting painless.

Attach receipts to each expense and export a category summary plus a detailed log when it is time to report. A clean breakdown shows funders exactly how their seed capital was used.