GCC/CDF Global Changemaker Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications are open for the GCC/CDF Global Changemaker Fellowship 2025. Launched as a collaborative initiative between the Global Changemaker Collective (GCC) and Connecting Dreams Foundation (CDF), the Global Changemaker Fellowship is a six-month digital management accelerator designed to domesticate a robust pipeline of rising social change leaders who’re actively remodeling their native communities.

This immersive program empowers fellows with the abilities, instruments, mentorship, and international community wanted to amplify the influence of their grassroots initiatives. Throughout the fellowship, contributors have interaction in a curated collection of interactive workshops, management coaching, peer studying, and one-on-one mentorship, all whereas persevering with to steer and scale their current neighborhood-based mostly initiatives. The program is constructed to reinforce every changemaker’s skill to collaborate, adapt, and develop their initiative in a sustainable and impactful approach.

Focus Areas

• Systems Thinking: Approaching advanced challenges by understanding the interconnections inside methods and designing options that serve all stakeholders holistically.
• Thought Leadership: Equipping changemakers to obviously articulate imaginative and prescient, navigate throughout various views, and mobilize communities towards collective motion.
• Empathetic Leadership: Develop the capability to steer with compassion whereas balancing interdependent forces like custom and innovation, stability and alter.
• Adaptive & Collaborative Leadership: Fostering the mindset and expertise to steer with flexibility, co-create options, and embrace the iterative nature of social transformation by way of inclusive collaboration.

Benefits

• Workshops & Immersive Training: Fellows have interaction in arms-on workshops led by international practitioners, gaining actionable expertise and data immediately aligned with their neighborhood-pushed initiatives.
• Personalized Mentorship & Strategic Consultations: Each fellow is matched with skilled mentors who supply tailor-made steerage, essential suggestions, and ongoing help to strengthen and scale their initiatives.
• Global Peer Network & Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Fellows be part of a various neighborhood of changemakers from around the globe—constructing significant relationships, exchanging concepts, and sparking collaborative influence throughout areas and sectors.
• Access to Global Tools & Knowledge Resources: Participants are outfitted with slicing-edge frameworks, toolkits, and assets to assist them navigate native challenges and implement scalable, sustainable options.
• Systems Thinking for Holistic Impact: Fellows study to research issues by way of a methods lens growing options that account for root causes, interdependencies, and lengthy-time period influence.
• Transformational Leadership Development: The program cultivates the management capability of fellows to suppose boldly, talk successfully throughout variations, and encourage collective motion inside their communities.
• Adaptive & Collaborative Changemaking: The fellowship emphasizes flexibility, co-creation, and resilience serving to fellows lead change by way of inclusive partnerships and adaptive motion.

Eligibility

• Demonstrated ardour and dedication to addressing challenges in native communities by way of sustainable initiatives.
• Evidence of management expertise and the potential to encourage and mobilize others.
• Willingness and talent to decide to a six-month digital program, which incorporates taking part in workshops, mentorship classes, and different actions.
• Proficiency in English, as this system is probably going carried out in English and efficient communication is essential.
• Access to a dependable web connection and the mandatory expertise to take part in digital classes.

Application

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For extra info, go to GCC/CDF Global Changemaker Fellowship.