Deadline: October 30, 2025
Applications are open for the Acumen India 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.
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)
Cost
- Once you are selected as an Acumen Fellow Candidate, Acumen covers all program-related expenses during the Fellowship. This includes all costs associated with the immersive including lodging and food. Reimbursements are available for travel to immersive if the participants wish to claim them.
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. We encourage you to start the application early.
For more information, visit Acumen India Acumen Fellowship.
