Applications for the 2025-2026 cohort year are open now until April 20, 2025! Apply here.

Applications to Diller Teen Fellows San Francisco will include:

• Complete an online application
• Engage in a 1:1 interview with SF Diller staff. Interview slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so we encourage you to submit your application early in order to secure your desired time slot.
• Participate in an in-person group interview with other San Francisco Diller applicants at the Federation.

Prospective applicants must be current 10th grade students who reside in the Bay Area. We are looking for applicants who represent the Bay Area in all of its diversity.  Jewish teens of all backgrounds including race, socioeconomic, gender identity, sexual identity, ethnicity, and Jewish identity are encouraged to apply.

The yearlong fellowship program includes:

• 13 Sunday afternoon workshops, four hours each
• Three weekend retreats (shabbatonim)
• A three week summer seminar, which offers participants the chance to experience the culture and history of Israel while also engaging in community service.
• A ten day hosting opportunity in which San Francisco Fellows host Upper Galilee Fellows.

The select group of 20 Fellows will learn and experience:

• Design thinking
• Collaboration skills
• Grant project that represents tikkum olam (heal the world)
• Relationship-building across the globe 
• High-impact volunteering activities
• Deepened connection to Jewish identity, pluralism, peoplehood and Israel

Each participant receives a $10,000 subsidy from both the Helen Diller Family Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, which brings the program cost to $3,800 per Fellow, including a program deposit.

The Diller Teen Fellows program offers need-based scholarships to its participants upon acceptance into the program.