Rockefeller Foundation 2026 Big Bets Fellowship: United States – YOA

Deadline: January 12, 2026

Applications are open for the Rockefeller Foundation 2026 Big Bets Fellowship: United States. As part of the Foundation’s lengthy-standing dedication to creating OPPORTUNITY common, they established an annual Fellowship to equip leaders with the mindset and abilities wanted to advance options with breakthrough potential to attach displaced staff to work, and help efforts to construct resilience within the face of previous or future financial disruption.

The United States is at a essential juncture, dealing with each immense challenges and unprecedented alternatives which can be undergirded by particular person’s elevated pessimism about their — and their group’s — financial prospects. Since the Eighties, financial inequality has risen steadily within the United States with earnings and wealth more and more concentrated amongst a smaller and smaller proportion of Americans. Moreover, almost 50 million Americans dwell in distressed locations, with declining job alternatives resulting in a number of different challenges together with poor well being and academic outcomes, persistent racial and gender inequities, and the erosion of social and political belief. However, the United States additionally has important assets and capability for transformative change, with sturdy analysis establishments, a rising inexperienced economic system, and progressive coverage initiatives that may drive impactful financial options.

The Big Bets Fellowship: United States will empower leaders throughout sectors to develop entrepreneurial options, resilient programs, and insurance policies that seize the chance for progress that’s good for folks and the planet.

Costs

• Travel bills for participation within the in-individual convening shall be coated by The Rockefeller Foundation. Fellows shall be accountable for securing the mandatory visa(s) for any journey through the course of this system.

Eligibility

They want to help leaders with daring options that reimagine an present system or introduce progressive approaches to harness the know-how, property, capacities, and energies of others to energy a affluent future for all Americans, targeted on making certain financial prosperity, stability and alternatives for communities that want it most.

While there isn’t a single profile of a Big Bets Fellow, the next traits describe the people who’re more likely to thrive in this system:

• 5–15 years of expertise driving affect via skilled, entrepreneurial, or group-based mostly work.
• Deep engagement of their area, mirrored via lived expertise, skilled contributions, or group involvement.
• A particular perspective and recent perception right into a urgent problem, knowledgeable by each private {and professional} expertise.
• A confirmed monitor file of significant change, demonstrating the power to steer initiatives and bringing collectively various stakeholders to realize shared objectives.
• Collaborative, curious, and group-pushed, with a powerful dedication to studying and contributing to the Fellowship community.
• Courageous and daring, prepared to problem the established order and advance new approaches for lasting affect.
• To be thought of for the cohort, candidates have to be engaged on a mission that impacts a number of states within the United States of America and immediately advantages the communities the applicant represents.
• Applicants have to be members of the Big Bets Community to be eligible for the Fellowship.

Application

U.S. functions are open! Join the Big Bets Community and also you’ll obtain an e-mail with a hyperlink to the application type.

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For extra info, go to Big Bets Fellowship.