Impact-driven entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses can apply for the 16-week Flagship Fellowship, which offers access to a worldwide network, skill-building training, and mentorship from seasoned professionals, venture capitalists, and executives. August 2024 will mark the program’s inception with an in-person immerse in Boulder, Colorado. The remaining programming is delivered virtually and offers impact entrepreneurs dedicated mentorship, award-winning training, and a strong peer network to help them grow both personally and professionally.

Award-winning instruction, devoted mentoring, and a strong peer network are all provided by the Flagship Fellowship to give Fellows the skills and information they need to support the growth and impact of their ventures in the future.

Brief Details:

• Offered by: Watson Institute
• Format: On August 1st, 2024, a 10-day Immersion will kick off the curriculum. For the final fifteen weeks of the program, virtual sessions are offered (weekly time commitment: 8–10 hours).
• In-Person Immersive: 10-day Immersive starting August 1st, 2024 (20–25 hours per week time commitment).
• Deadline: 1 June 2024
• Duration: August 1st to November 12th, 2024 (16 weeks of programming).
• Gender: Any
• Type: Fellowship
• Eligible Nations: Various

Fellowships:

• Enlight China Fellowship: For businesspeople who are dedicated to leading meaningful lives who are based in wider China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 20
  • Location: Greater China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong.
• Hoge Fellowship: For impact-driven businesspeople concentrating on environmental sustainability and/or youth empowerment who are in the product market fit stage.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 1
  • Location: Open to applicants from all over the world. Applicants from East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, South Sudan) and Brazil will be given preference.
• Jane Strode Miller fellowship: For forward-thinking businesspeople committed to creating innovative projects, changing communities, and making a significant impact.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 5
  • Location: Open to applicants from all over the world.
• Luff Fellowship: For incredibly talented, impact-driven business owners.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 1
  • Location: Open to applicants from all over the world.
• Mike and Christine Miles Fellowship: For forward-thinking businesspeople committed to creating innovative projects, changing communities, and making a significant impact.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 1
  • Location: Open to applicants from all over the world
• Watson Institute Fellowship: For entrepreneurs and digital leaders operating successful digital skilling businesses or initiatives in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Preference is granted to those concentrating on Chat GPT, generative AI, and data center expansion.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 1
  • Location: Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
• Tech Fellowship: For innovators who are developing technological solutions to address the most pressing social, economic, and environmental issues facing their nation and communities.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 1
  • Location: Open to applicants from all over the world.
• Sustainability Fellowship: for applicants creating climate change and environmental sustainability-focused solutions.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 1
  • Location: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, South Sudan.
• Sistla Planet Scale Fellowship: For inventors creating technical solutions to tackle urgent environmental issues worldwide. These challenges cover a broad range of problems, including plant-based food substitutes, environmental degradation, deforestation, carbon sequestration, innovations that help ecosystems and biodiversity, space technology for environmental protection, and climate change.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 2
  • Location: United States.
• Rising Leaders of Mexico Fellowship: For Mexican-based impact-driven entrepreneurs.
  • Number of Fellowships Available: 10
  • Location: Mexico.

Similar Opportunities:

• Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University 2025-2026 in the U.S
• The University of Padua Research Fellowships for Scholars at Risk
• NYU Stern Climate Economics for Journalists Fellowship (Fully Funded)
• Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship 2024 (Funded)

Benefits:

Support provided to the fellows:

• Venture Acceleration & Leadership Training: Some of the practical entrepreneurship and leadership-related modules include:
  • Team Management for Impactful Organizations
  • Data and Metrics
  • Marketing and Personal Branding for Impact-Driven Sales
• Community & Network Building: During and after the program, a diverse cohort of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and NGO founders will collaborate and develop partnerships, furthering their growth and impact. Activities that foster community include:
  • Interaction with former Watson Institute students
  • Self-planned get-togethers for peers
  • Basecamp exercises and activities
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Enterprise executives, venture investors, and business leaders offer numerous chances for mentorship to fellows. Engagements in mentoring include:
  • Speaker Series for the Preceptor Advisory Board: Impact
  • Mentor Bonanza
• A $20,000 business development stipend will be awarded to a select group of flagship fellowship fellows in accordance with their fellowship progress.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Your business has engaged clients or beneficiaries, is at the problem-solution or product-market fit stage, and has shown results in terms of impact and revenue. This usually entails a history of effectively obtaining money for your projects via grants, investments, gifts, and other sources.
• You are able to dedicate yourself to the 16-week program, which begins on August 1st and includes the in-person Immersion in Boulder, Colorado. Applicants that are totally dedicated to engaging in the program for the whole 16 weeks will be given priority. A strong sense of community is at the center of the program, and everyone who participates must be enthusiastic and actively engaged in order for it to succeed. Participants must also be eager to share and learn.
• It is possible for you to participate in the workshops that are held in the United States on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9:00 am to 11:00 am Mountain Time.

How to Apply?

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Also check:

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• The UNESCO Internship Program (Priority Africa and External Relations)
• Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University 2025-2026 in the U.S

For more details, kindly refer to Watson Institute’s website.