Joyful Impact Accelerator for Social Entrepreneurs 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 18, 2026

Applications are open for the Joyful Impact Accelerator for Social Entrepreneurs 2026. The Joyful Impact Accelerator exists to assist leaders of excessive potential social affect organizations uncover their subsequent stage of affect, private renewal, and pleasure. It is an OPPORTUNITY to affix with fellow social affect leaders in a 12 months-lengthy journey of private {and professional} development. The cohorts are various by design, created particularly for mission-pushed change brokers with an enormous imaginative and prescient for making the world a greater place.

Participants are going after deep affect in a fancy world. As leaders (and in lots of instances founders) of entrepreneurial social ventures wherein they’re each key visionaries and operational strategists, our individuals discover that the joyful integration of their private {and professional} selves makes all of the difference of their total success.

This 12 months-lengthy expertise supplies a possibility for social affect leaders to attach with a various set of friends; interact with curated content material targeted on making social change extra impactful, sustainable, and joyful; and entry individualized teaching to apply the training of their distinctive context.

Costs

• The Joyful Impact expertise is obtainable freed from cost to individuals, because of sponsorship by some beneficiant grant makers. The solely value individuals are requested to cowl is that of touring to and from our two in-individual convenings.

Eligibility

For this cohort, they’re trying for of us who: 

• Feel a powerful calling in direction of social affect;
• Are a full-time Founder/ED/CEO of a US-based mostly social affect group (non-revenue or for-profit);
• Are at some sort of inflection level of their life and/or management;
• Are keen to replicate deeply about their skilled and private properly-being and to make modifications of their lives accordingly;
• Are seeking to construct relationships with a singular neighborhood of friends;
• Are desirous to be taught from the lived experiences of a various cohort of friends AND keen to share their very own experiences in service of collective studying;
• Are keen to commit the time to have interaction totally on this studying expertise (roughly 1-2 hours per week plus two retreats in individual and one digital retreat spanning two afternoons).

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Joyful Impact Accelerator.