Fellowships & Incubators
Here’s a list of fellowships and incubators for social impact leaders. Please note that we are not directly affiliated with the programs.
Echoing Green Fellowship
They find and support people with the best ideas to positively impact the world. Through an intensive 18 month fellowship program and beyond, they provide the tools to bring their solutions to life and lead transformative change.
Watson Institute Fellowship
Watson Institute powers Fellowships to support highly promising, historically disenfranchised rising entrepreneurs and leaders. The Fellowships provide award-winning entrepreneurship and leadership skills training, committed mentorship, stipends, long-term Alumni support, and access to a global community of peers, mentors, and opportunities.
The Resolution Fellowship
The Resolution Project funds, mentors, and supports young people who have innovative ideas to improve their home communities.
Athari Fellowship
Participants receive one-on-one mentorship from established nonprofit founders and industry experts, a curriculum of workshops (covering topics such as root cause analysis, board development, and advanced fundraising), and an opportunity to gain $5,000 in seed funding. Workshops are held online, allowing for a truly global cohort, and the program is free.
Mira Fellowship
The Mira Fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for motivated people to address our most pressing issues by stepping back, finding a new perspective, and creating an action plan. Fellows will be given six months to research, design, and produce a simple actionable plan for change.
She’s the First Girl-Centered Incubator
The Girl-Centered Incubator is a program for female, community-based, youth founders who are working to secure rights and transform outcomes for girls in their community.
Mulago Foundation - Rainer & Henry Fellowships
Mulago finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor. They run two fellowship programs that help them to design for impact and deliver at scale.
Global Good Fund Fellowship
The Global Good Fund identifies high-potential leaders and organizations and provides them with the coaching, mentorship, funding, and other resources needed to accelerate their social impact — in the United States and 60+ countries around the world.
Acumen Fellowship
Acumen invests in early-stage companies whose products and services enable the poor to transform their lives. They also support their companies with the tools, networks, technical assistance and strategic guidance needed to succeed and scale into long-term solutions to poverty.