Applications are invited for India Acumen Fellowship 2025. The last date of application is October 30.
About the Fellowship
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.
Our India Acumen Fellowship is a transformative program that brings together a cohort of extraordinary individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset and a commitment to solve problems of poverty. We equip them with the tools and community to strengthen their leadership, scale their impact, and create meaningful change in India.
Our program is grounded in two decades of experience accompanying social entrepreneurs on the journey from seed to scale. The Fellowship provides new leadership frameworks and through a supportive cohort, Fellows pressure test the new skills they’re learning in real time, and build peer relationships that keep them accountable to their values and commitments as they grow and scale their impact.
Structure
Fellows remain in their jobs and participate in a 6-month hybrid program consisting of virtual sessions, in-person immersives, and self-paced learning. This is a high-level program overview:
- One 3-day virtual Orientation
- Two 5-day full-time in-person immersives (8 hours of assignments for each immersive consisting of self-paced learning and group calls)
- Four Learning Labs (4 hours each along with assignments)
Eligibility
- You are a social entrepreneur or senior decision-maker solving problems of poverty.
- You have 5 years of work experience (minimum) and are able to demonstrate commitment towards solving issues of poverty. On average our Fellows have 10-15 years of work experience with 10 years working on problems of poverty.
- You have a reliable internet connection and will be fully available to participate throughout the entirety of the program.
- You must be over the age of 18 to apply for the Fellowship.
Fellows mostly fall into these three categories:
- Entrepreneurs who have founded or are leading a for-profit or non-profit organization that provides critical goods and services to the underserved.
- Organizational builders who are playing an integral role (i-e CEO, MD, COO) in the growth of poverty- focused organizations from within, but not as the Founder or CEO.
- Intrapreneurs who are in decision making roles building innovative solutions to tackle poverty at existing institutions (governments, corporations, etc.) by shifting culture, strategy, and building new collaborations.
How to Apply?
Interested candidates can apply online via this page.
Important dates
- Submit the Online Application: Oct 30th, 2024
- Participate in the Selection Conference: Jan 17, 2025 – Jan 18, 2025
- Start your Fellowship Journey: March 2025
Contact
If you still have questions after reading the Frequently Asked Questions, please email fellows@acumenacademy.org.
