The Fellows Portal

The Roothbert Fellows portal provides a searchable profile database where you can discover like-minded Fellows as well as career, event, and volunteer opportunities. The Roothbert fund will publish Fellows information by permission only. Fellows on grant are required to post two updates a year. All Fellows are encouraged to share their news here, and on Facebook, LinkedIn and Slack.

Fellow Resources

The Roothbert Fund is a community 1,350 strong and growing, across seven countries and 47 states. Join our Facebook group to connect and communicate with other Roothbert Fellows. Connect to our LinkedIn page to access the Roothbert Fund’s professional network. 

Roothbert Fund Fellows Facebook Group 

Roothbert Fund LinkedIn Page

Find and connect with other fellows using the database below.

Update your information using this link!

To use the database, click “filter” in the header and select all the options that you are looking for. For example, here’s how you might use the database to find all fellows on grant in 2012 from New York.

To highlight and host the diverse body of work produced by Roothbert Fellows, the Roothbert Fund has created a Fellows’ Publication Library. Contributions to our library can be made here. 

The Opportunity Board functions as a place for Fellows to solicit and accept open positions— be it jobs, volunteering opportunities, or needed services. Submit offerings through this form.

Volunteer for the newsletter —

The Roothbert Fund would like a volunteer who could receive emails updates and news and summarize them for a regular email newsletter. If you are interested, write to Percy Preston in the Fund office at mail@roothbertfund.org.

Volunteer for the website —

The Roothbert Fund is looking for an online editor who could help us keep our website current and post news, events and photos related to Fellows and Fund activities. If you are interested, write to Percy Preston in the Fund office at mail@roothbertfund.org.

Volunteer to interview new candidates —

If you are a Fellow who is no longer on grant, we'd welcome your help in interviewing candidates in March in either New Haven, New York, Philadelphia or Washington. If you are interested, write to Percy Preston in the Fund office at mail@roothbertfund.org.

Volunteer to lead a Pendle Hill, or suggest a topic —

Roothbert Fund retreats at Pendle Hill have been taking place for more than 40 years and the topics and themes for discussion have been as varied as they have been fascinating. Usually led by a past recipient of a Roothbert scholarship, the retreats offer opportunities to experience the Fellowship that is unique to the Fund and learn about oneself and others. If you have a topic you think would be of interest, or wish to lead a retreat, write to Percy Preston in the Fund office at mail@roothbertfund.org.

To promote fellowship among recipients of Roothbert scholarships, the Fund creates several opportunities each year for Fellows to meet with each other and members of the Board. Each year, Fellows are invited to a weekend meeting at Pendle Hill, a Quaker study center in a peaceful, wooded setting outside of Philadelphia. Such weekend retreats have been a tradition in the Fund since 1965, when Toni Roothbert invited Board members and Fellows to come together to meet one another. The Fund requires each Roothbert Fellow on grant to attend at least one Pendle Hill Retreat during the first year they are on grant. Weekend dates in June and September are announced each year.

The weekend is an informal retreat, beginning with dinner Friday evening and ending mid-day on Sunday. Typically a former grant recipient leads discussion on a theme that permits Fellows to explore and discuss an important issue while getting to know one another better.

Fellows are encouraged to attend Pendle Hill gatherings whenever possible, as well as informal get-togethers which are held occasionally in New York and other cities. There are a limited number of places for each Pendle Hill weekend. Priority is given to new Fellows and then to those who notify the Fellowship Committee of their interest in attending..

Renewals of Roothbert Scholarship grants are considered in the light of a Fellow's achievements during the previous year and the renewal of grants and their amount are subject to the availability of the Fund's resources. Fellows seeking a renewal of their grant must complete and submit the Fund's online renewal application and upload a copy of their transcripts for the current year by no later than midnight February 1.

Renewal announcements are made in late April, at the same time as new awards are announced, pending Board approval. Because funds are limited, the Roothbert Fund rarely supports Fellows during the pursuit of more than one academic degree program. The Fund reserves the right to terminate support if a Fellow changes the academic degree program to which he or she originally applied. It is important that any change of program be communicated promptly to the Fund.

Renewal prerequisites: While on grant, Roothbert Fellows each year are required to:

1. Attend one Pendle Hill

2. Complete 7 hours or 3 activities of other curriculum offerings

3. Make at least one contribution of some sort to our social media (Facebook, website, newsletter…)

Renewal application: To be directed to the online renewal application, click on the link below. Please login with the user name and password you created for your original, new application. If you did not originally apply online, click on "Sign Up" and indicate that you are a "Renewal Applicant" under "Category."

[Currently not in budget] In 1972, to honor the memory and life work of the founders, the idea took shape of creating a special program named "STAR" (Seeds of Toni and Albert Roothbert). The Fund Board decided that in addition to its Scholarships Program, it would introduce a modest Fellows' Projects Program. Roothbert Fellows no longer on grant would be eligible to apply to the Fund for seed money in the form of small grants for individual or group projects taking place within the United States that are consonant with the aims of the founders. Fundamentally, the Fellows Projects Program aims to pay for full or partial costs of:

• Educational or service projects conducted by Fellows for the benefit of others in ways that either extend or fulfill the vocational commitments developed while these Fellows were on stipend, or otherwise embody a continuing expression of Fellows' commitment to the purposes of the Fund, or

• Activities intended to increase Fellows' spiritual awareness or commitment, or to increase their knowledge, skill and other capabilities in ways that fulfill the Fund's purposes.

Do you need to get in touch with the Roothbert Fund? Contact us with any questions or inquiries via the information listed below. 

Email: office@roothbertfund.org

Phone number: (212) 870-3116

Address: The Roothbert Fund, Inc. | 475 Riverside Drive | Room 1622 | New York, NY | 10115