Western Union Global Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 28, 2026

Applications are open for the Western Union Global Fellowship 2026. The Western Union Global Fellowship is a Fellowship designed for entrepreneurs impacting refugees, extremely marginalized, and displaced people globally.

Suported by Western Union and powered by Watson Institute, this totally-funded 16-week program supplies coaching, dedicated mentorship, monetary literacy abilities, monetary stipends, lengthy-time period Alumni assist, a playbook and funds to energy a 1-day Basecamp of their neighborhood, and a world community of assist to assist distinctive entrepreneurs and leaders entry financial OPPORTUNITY, advance their influence, and rework their communities.

Benefits

• Entrepreneurship & Leadership Workshops: Participate in Watson Institute’s signature Flagship Fellowship curriculum, becoming a member of a various cohort of entrepreneurs from throughout Watson Institute’s broader Fellowship neighborhood.
• Financial Tools & Resources: Access sensible monetary instruments, frameworks, and workshops designed to strengthen your enterprise’s monetary basis. Benefit from the experience of practitioners and Watson Institute’s broader community of specialists supporting entrepreneurs at each stage.
• Basecamps: Creating Lasting Impact: Design and lead a complete 1-day entrepreneurship coaching program (Basecamp) for earlier-stage entrepreneurs in your neighborhood. With coaching, assets, and a neighborhood growth stipend, you’ll multiply your influence by supporting rising entrepreneurs serving marginalized and displaced populations.
• Pitch Training & Virtual Summit: Master the artwork of compelling storytelling via devoted pitch teaching. Present your enterprise’s development and neighborhood influence to an engaged digital viewers of entrepreneurs, neighborhood leaders, Western Union representatives, potential buyers, and friends.

Eligibility

• You are an entrepreneur or neighborhood chief who has skilled the challenges of extremely marginalized, refugee, or forcibly displaced communities, or who’s actively working to assist these populations. You are deeply dedicated to addressing points affecting traditionally underserved communities and driving significant, neighborhood-centered influence. They significantly worth proximate leaders—those that come from these communities or work carefully with them, bringing lived expertise and shut connection to the challenges at hand.
• Your enterprise or group has been working for 1-5 years with fewer than 10 workers. You have engaged prospects, measurable outcomes, and have secured some funding via grants, investments, donations, or income, and also you’re able to develop to the subsequent stage. (All authorized enterprise buildings welcome: for-revenue, nonprofit, social enterprise, and so forth.).
• You should be capable to decide to the total 16-week program, together with the obligatory digital Immersive and weekly workshops held Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8:00–10:00 AM MT. They prioritize individuals who’re totally dedicated to energetic engagement all through your entire program. The program’s success will depend on constructing a robust neighborhood the place all individuals are smitten by each studying and sharing their experiences with others.
• Applicants who’re positioned in and/or creating influence within the following international locations are inspired to apply:
  • United States: Denver, Austin, Miami
  • Costa Rica: Santa Ana
  • India: Pune
  • Philippines: Quezon City
  • Lithuania: Vilnius
  • Argentina: Buenos Aires
  • Italy: Rome
  • Brazil: São Paulo
  • Peru: Lima
• You search professional-guided entrepreneurial coaching via Watson Institute’s signature Flagship Fellowship curriculum, specialised mentorship from Entrepreneurs in Residence with lived expertise supporting communities on the transfer, a supportive international neighborhood for suggestions, a broad mentor community to reinforce your management, and alternatives to problem your self by main a Basecamp coaching program and different initiatives that profit your enterprise and neighborhood. You carry an entrepreneurial spirit and development mindset to this work.
• Applicants have to be 18 years or older.

Application

Submit Your Application: Candidates full the web application in roughly half-hour. Submit by the precedence deadline of June 28, 2026, for early consideration. Applications will proceed to be reviewed on a rolling foundation till all spots are crammed.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Western Union Global Fellowship.