Deadline: October 30, 2024
Applications are open for the India Acumen Fellowship 2025. Acumen invests in social entrepreneurs across the capital continuum and accompanies them on the journey to create transformational change. At Acumen Academy, they 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.
The 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. They equip them with the tools and community to strengthen their leadership, scale their impact, and create meaningful change in India.
Through the program curriculum and a supportive cohort, participants peel back notions of themselves as leaders and build greater self-awareness. They hone their skills to become better team leaders, authentic storytellers, and navigate values in tension. They leave the program with the ability to negotiate across differences, motivate themselves and others, challenge traditional ways of working, and reshape the people, organizations, and systems around them.
Program Structure
Fellows remain in their jobs and participate in a 6-month hybrid program consisting of virtual sessions, in-person immersive, and self-paced learning.
This is a high-level program overview:
- One 3-day virtual Orientation
- Two 5-day full-time in-person immersive (8 hours of assignments for each immersive consisting of self-paced learning and group calls)
- Four Learning Labs (4 hours each along with assignments)
Benefits
Upon Successful completion of the program, participants join the Foundry, Acumen’s global community of 1600+ alumni from around the world. They help Foundry members build and scale organizations through access to these selective opportunities:
- Tools and mentorship: Get specialized tools and exclusive coaching opportunities from their partners at Bain and Company
- Community: Join a community of award-winning social entrepreneurs
- Amplification: Get exposure to a global audience of investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders
- Early-stage funding: Pitch for early-stage catalytic capital through Acumen Angels to go from seed to scale
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.
Application
The application has been designed to understand more about you, your work and impact, as well as your program readiness. They encourage you to start the application early.
For more information, visit India Acumen Fellowship.
