Stanford Impact Founder (EcoSIF) Fellowships and Awards

The Stanford Impact Founder – Ecopreneurship (EcoSIF) program is a flagship postgraduate fellowship program that provides catalytic financial support (a $110k fellowship or a $20k award) along with coaching and supportive programming to Stanford graduate students launching eco ventures in their year after graduation.

Since 2009, SIF has supported graduating students working around the world to launch a high-impact for-profit or nonprofit ventures tackling pressing social or environmental needs. Topics have ranged from educational equity to clean water to climate change. The SIF program originated from the GSB’s Center for Social Innovation, which now runs the SIF program focused on social impact (SIF-Social).

Faculty Principal Investigator (PI) Required?: No
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  • Updated: November 22, 2025
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Provided By: Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES), Center for Social Innovation (CSI), Ecopreneurship Programs, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Stanford University

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Ecopreneurial Innovation Externalization (EcoX) Program

The Ecopreneurial Innovation Externalization (EcoX) program offers Stanford graduate students an experiential learning opportunity to work with a Stanford lab to explore commercialization pathways of the lab’s sustainability-focused innovation full-time for 8 weeks over the summer with a stipend, coaching, workshops, and a supportive community...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer
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Ecopreneurial Research for Accelerating Market Pathfinding (EcoRAMP)

The EcoRAMP program offers an experiential learning opportunity for Stanford undergraduates to work with a research team on an active Sustainability Accelerator project. Throughout the engagement, the student will learn about both the development of sustainable solutions and the approaches for their externalization for real-world impact...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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SDSS Summer Internship Program

Spend your summer exploring the growing field of sustainability, gaining new skills, and expanding your professional network through the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Summer Internship Program. Internships are paid and open to undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford.
  • Entrepreneurship: Partial Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer