Bold Movers – Cohort 2 – 2025 – Application Open(Fully-funded and open to women changemakers)

Program Overview
Thank you to your curiosity in making use of for the Bold Movers Program, created in partnership between Stuart Weitzman and Vital Voices Global Partnership, designed to spend money on women changemakers working to obtain their subsequent social impression milestone.

In a latest study by Harvard Business Review, greater than half of women executives cited their mid-profession (early 30s to late-40s) because the stage the place they confronted probably the most gender bias within the office. It is throughout this time that women take care of gendered assumptions of labor, hyper-scrutiny, and unequal entry to alternatives.

We search to meet these women to assist them confront gender-biases and take the following step of their social impression work by partaking trainings, neighborhood constructing classes, one-on-one mentorship, and significant networking alternatives to develop their management capability.

Through taking part within the Bold Movers, members will:

• Build management and confidence by tailor-made abilities-constructing trainings and neighborhood-constructing classes
• Receive an invite to attend an in-particular person convening in Washington, DC (with all journey bills coated)
• Have the chance to apply for grant funding for his or her initiatives
• Receive mentorship from skilled Stuart Weitzman leaders and members of the Vital Voices community
• Join the Vital Voices world community of greater than 20,000 women leaders from world wide

Who Is This Program For?
The 2025 Bold Movers cohort is on the lookout for members who’re:

• Mid-career social impression leaders
• Pivoting or altering their profession path
• Clearly devoted to management and management development
• Interested in connecting to a community of like-minded leaders

Program Timeline
All members chosen will attend twice-month-to-month digital conferences from May to July 2025 as well as to frequently-scheduled mentoring conferences. There will probably be an in-particular person gathering in Washington, DC – dates to be confirmed (journey prices coated by this system).

About Vital Voices Global Partnership
We are dealing with the world’s hardest challenges of all time – local weather disaster, systemic and widespread racial injustices, gender-based mostly violence, rising financial divides and inequity, and far more. The world wants women to assist resolve the issues which might be affecting folks in their very own communities and throughout the globe. For over 25 years, Vital Voices Global Partnership has been investing in women leaders fixing these challenges. We have constructed a community of 20,000 changemakers throughout 184 international locations daring to reimagine a extra equitable world for all.

At Vital Voices we’re “venture catalysts”, figuring out women leaders with a daring imaginative and prescient for change and partnering with them to make their imaginative and prescient a actuality. We scale and speed up their impression by lengthy-time period investments to develop their abilities, connections, capability, and visibility. We know that women lead otherwise, and we work to have a good time and share what makes their management transformational: inclusion, fairness, and a dedication to breaking down boundaries.

About Stuart Weitzman
Since 1986, New York City-based world luxurious footwear model Stuart Weitzman has mixed its signature artisanal craftsmanship and exact engineering to empower women to stand robust. Having perfected the artwork of shoemaking for over 35 years, the model continues to develop its assortment to function purses, males’s footwear and eyewear, all of the whereas staying true to its ethos of inspiring energy and confidence with each step.

The model’s social impression mission is to encourage and help women to make their subsequent daring transfer of their communities by confidence-constructing initiatives.

Application Information
APPLY HERE

In this application, you should have the chance to share details about your work and background that demonstrates your suitability for the fellowship. This is a complete application, which you will not end in a single sitting, so if you need to save your progress and return to full the application later, you might make the most of the “Save & Continue” function positioned on the backside of every application web page. Clicking on this function will ship you an e-mail with a hyperlink to entry your saved application at a later time. Please be aware that you just won’t be able to advance to the following web page of the application till all required fields have been accomplished. Applications will probably be graded on a rolling foundation.

To be thought-about for this chance, please submit your application no later than midnight on Friday, February 28, 2025.

If you’ve any questions or technical difficulties, please attain out to Brittney Knotts at BrittneyOk@vitalvoices.org with “Bold Movers Application” within the topic line.