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Overview
| Donor: | Acumen Fund |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | United States |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Individual |
| Deadline: | 10.11.2023 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | - |
| Total available budget: | - |
| Funding type: | Other |
| Maximum grant size: | - |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Economic Development
- Education
Project Locations
Africa
Burundi, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
America
Colombia
Asia
India, Malaysia, Pakistan
Description
1) Objective
In the Fellowship Program You Will:
- Learn to catalyse and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change at the personal, organisational, and societal levels
- Cultivate the ability to lead effectively when opposing but interdependent values are in tension
- Understand how to lead diverse stakeholders through recurring and complex challenges
- Develop the capacity to tell meaningful stories that speak across lines of difference and move others to action
- Examine your identities, values, and choices that have shaped your journey till now and cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself and your work in a broader context
- Explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical foundation of social change through text-based dialogue
- Navigate systemic problems and design more effective interventions using moral imagination
- Question your assumptions and beliefs about leading effective change
- Be supported and accompanied by a cohort of like-minded peers persevering in the process of driving social change
2) Eligibility
Eligible fellow are: (1) Entrepreneurs: Leaders of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations providing critical goods or services to the underserved; (2) Intrapreneurs: Builders from any sector tackling poverty and injustice from within by shifting the institutional culture—and building new collaborations: (3) Organizational Builders: Leaders (other than the Founder or CEO) supporting the growth of institutions combating poverty and injustice.
3) Location
At this time, they are targeting individuals whose work has a direct impact in the regions below: Colombia, East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, South Sudan), India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Spain, UK, West Africa (Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, The Gambia).
4) Budget
All programme costs covered by Acumen Academy. The size is not mentioned.
5) Application
Application for the 2024 India Acumen Fellows Program will be open until 10 November 2023.