Deadline: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024. | WATSON BMO FELLOWSHIP 2024
Equipping highly promising sustainability entrepreneurs who are driving solutions to their communities’ most significant environmental and sustainability challenges
About WATSON BMO FellowshiP 2024
The BMO Fellowship is a fully-funded venture and leadership program created to offer top-notch, diversified, and highly promising sustainability leaders and entrepreneurs all-encompassing support. It provides entrepreneurial, sustainability, and leadership training that has won awards in order to support its clients’ sustainability-focused businesses and actively address the most critical issues facing their local communities. Those from historically underserved communities within BMO’s service area who have firsthand experience with the issues they are committed to addressing are the target audience for this fellowship.
Eligibility
Who You Are:
- You are a BIPOC, woman, or Native American/Indigenous entrepreneur or community leader deeply committed to creating sustainable, scalable impact in your community.
- You are at the helm of a sustainability-focused social impact venture or community endeavor in its initial stages, showcasing a history of making a difference. Ideally, your venture is in the space of environmental sustainability.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit, a growth mindset, and are driven to grow as an effective leader within your community. The ideal venture stage for this fellowship are those in the Problem-Solution Fit or Product-Market Fit phases, with engaged customers or beneficiaries, and demonstrated outcomes in both impact and revenue.
Where You Create Impact :
You are located across BMO’s mid-west footprint which includes Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota. While BMO is located across North America, this fellowship will focus on the U.S. mid-west region.
Preference will be given to applicants from:
- .Wisconsin
- .Illinois
- .Indiana
- Minnesota
What You Are Looking For:
You want a community of entrepreneurs to provide you with input to improve your business, you want expert-led entrepreneurial training, and you want a broad mentorship network to help you become a better leader and increase the impact of your company.
Benefits
- Each Fellow is equipped to effect good change locally by facilitating a Basecamp,
- a one- to three-day intensive workshop, in their community.
- They also get financial support, a playbook, and training for this purpose.
- During their stay in the program, each Fellow will lead a Basecamp event as a mandatory deliverable of the BMO Fellowship.
- Through their training, fellows are able to customize Basecamp’s objectives and structure to fit the type of participant community they want.
The BMO Fellowship offers award-winning training, dedicated mentorship, and a dynamic peer community.
We are here to to equip you with the skills and insights necessary to supercharge your venture and make a lasting impact.
The workshops, speakers, mentors, and community support for this fellowship will be adapted and customized to serve those leading sustainability focused ventures
Deadline: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024.
How to apply
To apply and for more information BMO FELLOWSHIP, Visit Watson BMO official website
