Acumen East Africa Fellowship 2025 for Social Entrepreneurs – YOA

Deadline: February 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Acumen East Africa Fellowship 2025. Acumen invests in social entrepreneurs throughout the capital continuum and accompanies them on the journey to create transformational change. At Acumen Academy, they determine and put together these leaders with the onerous expertise required to construct scalable options to poverty and the tougher expertise of ethical management to re-think about and construct a greater world.

The East Africa Acumen Fellowship is a transformative program that brings collectively a cohort of extraordinary people with an entrepreneurial mindset and a dedication to resolve issues of poverty. They equip them with the instruments and group to strengthen their management, scale their influence, and create significant change in East Africa.

Program Structure

Fellows stay of their jobs and take part in a 6-month hybrid program consisting of digital classes, in-individual immersives, and self-paced studying.

This is a excessive-degree program overview:

• One 3-day digital Orientation
• Two 5-day full-time in-individual immersives (8 hours of assignments for every immersive consisting of self-paced studying and group calls)
• Three Learning Labs (4 hours every together with assignments)  

Benefits

Upon Successful completion of this system, individuals be part of the Foundry, Acumen’s world group of 1600+ alumni from all over the world. They assist Foundry members construct and scale organizations by entry to those selective alternatives:

• Tools and mentorship
• Community
• Amplification
• Early-stage funding

Eligibility

• Open to social entrepreneurs in East Africa.
• You are a proper match for the fellowshi if:
  • You need to get your self and your work to the subsequent degree. You’re wanting for individuals to help you in your journey. You have a daring imaginative and prescient for your self and your work. You need to develop your self as a reputable and provoking chief in pursuit of the lifelong apply of ethical management and acquire a nuanced understanding of how one can be of the best service to your self, your work, and the world.
  • You imagine the alternative of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s dignity. Your group offers individuals dwelling in poverty the dignity of alternative – in jobs, schooling, merchandise, and providers. You are utilizing the instruments of enterprise to construct scalable, market-primarily based options to resolve issues of poverty and you might be bettering lives.
  • You have a way of urgency to make a contribution to the world. You’ve grown impatient with the established order – each inside your self and on the earth. You have a burning ambition to scale your confirmed answer and are looking out for the instruments and group to construct influence.
  • You are prepared to affix a world group of friends who’re captivated with fixing issues of poverty and can stroll alongside you. You need to join with others who’ve been the place you might be and be part of a group to provide and obtain and the place it’s okay to outline success otherwise, and put individuals and the planet on the middle.

Application

The application has been designed to grasp extra about you, your work and influence, in addition to your program readiness. We encourage you to start out the application early.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Acumen East Africa Fellowship.