FELLOWSHIP
Our action fellowship is open to entrepreneurs who work across sectors from justice education, health, climate, livelihoods, urban development, governance, or civic innovation with an emphasis on driving positive social change.
Whether you are starting out or already making meaningful change, our program offers an opportunity for you to reflect on your mission, build partnerships, test solutions, and identify communities of support.
Our program is designed to be accessible across geographies. It is a remote first hybrid program with live monthly virtual training sessions, customized monthly sessions with a social impact advisor, and one in person event.
About the fellowship
What we offer
Through a three month program, we will host virtual bi-monthly training sessions on the following themes:
Identifying alignments between your organization's mission and its potential for systems change
Mapping the nature of the problem you are working with, and the networks of actors that can enable and constrain its impacts.
Brainstorming and building an idea canvas for different interventions.
Creating a people centered culture within your organization and amongst your collaborators which is based on trust, diversity, equity, inclusion and shared ownership.
Developing strategies to make your organization sustainable operationally, and for the planet.
Testing the viability of your social business model, to ensure that it can create long term and sustainable change.
Training
Advice
We will offer customized monthly meetings with a social impact advisor which are focussed on your individual journey.
Networks
As a part of the program, you will have access to opportunities to build connections with fellow entrepreneurs, advisors, and the larger impact community
We do not offer funding nor do we take equity. We will organize training on fundraising and grant writing and opportunities for connecting with funders and grant making organizations.
Funding
This fellowship is for people who want to engage with complex social challenges thoughtfully and responsibly—and are interested in moving beyond ideas to meaningful action. It builds on experiences from the impact weekend, and offers an in-depth and customised learning experience.
The program will be useful for:
Who should attend?
Professionals and practitioners working in or exploring fields such as education, health, climate, livelihoods, urban development, governance, or civic innovation who want to strengthen their ability to design for systemic change.
Founders and early-stage social entrepreneurs looking to stress-test ideas, deepen their understanding of communities, and build models that are viable in real-world contexts.
Students and young professionals with a strong interest in social impact who are ready to move from awareness to structured problem-solving and collective action.
Policy, nonprofit, and development sector professionals who want to apply design and systems thinking more rigorously to programs, reforms, and service delivery.
Designers, strategists, technologists, and researchers who want to apply their skills to challenges involving access, equity, and large-scale service delivery.