The Kotcher Fellowship
Honor Service.
Build What Comes Next.
The Kotcher Fellowship invests in people, ideas, and service that strengthen communities and institutions. Inspired by the continuing life and service of Charles Kotcher, the Fellowship supports emerging leaders through education, research, community engagement, and meaningful projects.
Fund a Fellow. Fund an Idea. Fund What Comes Next.
The Idea
Kotcher exists to invest in people who want to serve, learn, create, and strengthen the places and institutions around them.
People
Invest in people with the ability and commitment to contribute.
Ideas
Give promising ideas room to be explored, tested, and developed.
Places
Connect people and ideas with real communities and institutions.
The Kotcher Ethos
Service
Relationships
Discipline
Responsibility
Stewardship
Human Flourishing
A Fellowship should be more than a credential. It should become an opportunity to serve, create, and grow.
Ways to Participate
Give
Help provide the resources that allow Fellows and Kotcher initiatives to move from ideas to action.
Volunteer
Contribute your experience, time, professional expertise, mentorship, or community knowledge.
Where Giving Goes
Examples of what contributions may support.
- Fellow support
- Education and training
- Research
- Community projects
- Innovation
- Travel and experiential learning
- Convenings
- Technology
- Project development
- Future Fellowship opportunities
Gifts are used where they are most needed across Kotcher's work unless a contribution is explicitly designated.
Living Legacy
A Legacy Is Strongest When It Keeps Working.
Kotcher transforms the values of service, responsibility, relationships, discipline, and stewardship into opportunities for others to learn, contribute, and build. Inspired by the continuing life and service of Charles Kotcher, the Fellowship carries that example forward into the work of the next generation.