Deadline: February 7, 2025
Applications are open for the Acumen East Africa 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 East Africa 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 East Africa.
Program 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)
- Three 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
- Community
- Amplification
- Early-stage funding
Eligibility
- Open to social entrepreneurs in East Africa.
- You are a right fit for the fellowshi if:
- You want to get yourself and your work to the next level. You’re looking for people to support you on your journey. You have a bold vision for yourself and your work. You want to develop yourself as a credible and inspiring leader in pursuit of the lifelong practice of moral leadership and gain a nuanced understanding of how you can be of the greatest service to yourself, your work, and the world.
- You believe the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s dignity. Your organization gives people living in poverty the dignity of choice – in jobs, education, products, and services. You are using the tools of business to build scalable, market-based solutions to solve problems of poverty and you are improving lives.
- You have a sense of urgency to make a contribution to the world. You’ve grown impatient with the status quo – both within yourself and in the world. You have a burning ambition to scale your proven solution and are searching for the tools and community to build impact.
- You are ready to join a global community of peers who are passionate about solving problems of poverty and will walk alongside you. You want to connect with others who have been where you are and join a community to give and receive and where it’s okay to define success differently, and put people and the planet at the center.
Application
The application has been designed to understand more about you, your work and impact, as well as your program readiness. We encourage you to start the application early.
For more information, visit Acumen East Africa Fellowship.
