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INDIA ACUMEN FELLOWSHIP

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Application Deadline: October 30, 2024.

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Acumen invests in social entrepreneurs across the capital continuum and accompanies them on the journey to create transformational change. At Acumen Academy, we identify and prepare these leaders with the hard skills required to build scalable solutions to poverty and the harder skills of moral leadership to re-imagine and build a better world.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must be social entrepreneurs or senior decision-makers dedicated to solving poverty-related issues, with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience.

Organizations must have at least two team members, as collaboration is essential for success.

At least 50% of the target group must fall below the poverty line to ensure a meaningful impact.

There are no specific academic qualifications, but applicants must be over the age of 18 and proficient in English.

Individuals who have previously participated in an Acumen Fellows program or specific Acumen Academy Leadership Accelerators are not eligible to apply for the Fellowship.

Multiple applicants from the same organization can apply, but only one will be selected per year, and only one individual from the same organization can be a Fellow within three years.

The award will be held:

East Africa Program: Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, and Dar es Salaam

India Program: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mysore

Pakistan Program: Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Murree, Peshawar, and Bahawalpur 

West Africa Program: Accra and Lagos

Colombia Program: Bogota, Cali, Medellín, Ráquira, and Sasaima

Malaysia Program: Kuala Lumpur, Pahang and Perak

BENEFIT:

Upon Successful completion of the program, participants join the Foundry, our global community of 1600+ alumni from around the world. We help Foundry members build and scale organizations through access to these selective opportunities: 

Furthermore, applicants will benefit the following:

The Fellowship is fully funded for selected Fellow Candidates, covering all program-related expenses.

Costs associated with immersive sessions, including lodging and food, are fully covered.

Reimbursements for travel to immersives may be available for participants.

Participants are to attend all program sessions, cohort calls, and one-on-ones, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.

Immersives consist of interactive discussions, peer coaching, and relationship building over five days.

Learning Labs provide virtual facilitated sessions to deepen understanding of content and encourage collaboration among cohorts.

The program emphasizes the 12 Principles of Moral Leadership, offering a framework for ethical leadership development.

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YALE JACKSON SCHOOL OF GLOBAL EMERGING CLIMATE LEADERS FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS

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Application Deadline: November 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM (noon) EST

LOCATION: USA

The Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship offers an opportunity for 16 young climate and clean energy practitioners from across the Global South to broaden their technical skills, deepen their professional networks, and exchange views with top global clean energy and climate change leaders.

The five-month program brings together a diverse group of talented young clean energy and climate leaders from emerging countries.

ELIGIBILITY:

Climate Fellows are top future climate leaders drawn from multiple career tracks from across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America/Caribbean.

Climate Fellows are drawn from a wide variety of professions, ranging from public servants to entrepreneurs, energy company professionals, financiers, journalists, educators, researchers, civil society representatives, legal advisers, and legislators.

Applicants should be between five and 10 years into their professional careers, with demonstrated accomplishments at a regional, national, or international level. While there is no maximum age limit, we are looking for young leaders to launch the program.

This five-month, three-part initiative is based out of Yale’s International Leadership Center with partnerships throughout the university. Fellows engage with prominent Yale faculty and a network of top practitioners to explore key issues in the global clean energy and climate change agenda.

Admission is highly competitive. Each cohort of fellows is geographically balanced and represents a wide range of professions, talents, experience, cultures, people, and perspectives.

Applicants must be fluent in English. An excellent command of the English language is essential to successfully participating in the program.

Climate Fellows must be available to fully participate in-person for two weeks of the program: the Yale Orientation week (April 7-11, 2025), and the Paris closing week (September 15-19, 2025).  Fellows must also be available to participate in the five remote learning journeys to be arranged remotely between May and early July 2025.

BENEFIT:

There is no application fee or other cost to apply or participate.  All fellows’ costs for Yale Orientation week and Paris closing week will be covered by the program (round-trip airfare, hotels, transfers and per-diem).

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