Deadline: 14 August, 2020
Applications for the 2021 Gratitude Network Fellowship are open. This is a leadership development programme for social entrepreneurs serving children and the youth.
The fellowship is a 12-month leadership development programme designed to help social entrepreneurs scale their organisations to the next level and therefore expand their impact.
The Gratitude Network Fellowship supports the leaders of growth stage social impact organisations (non-profit or for-profit) serving children and the youth.
Through a year-long virtual leadership development programme, the Gratitude Network helps the leaders of these organisations expand their impact.
Benefits
- Leadership coaching
- Support from expert advisors to tackle operational and execution issues
- Opportunity to attend the Gratitude Network’s annual leadership summit – a multi-day networking, learning and collaboration event
- Remain a valued member of the Gratitude Network alumni and family for future events and ongoing activities
- Meet regularly with peer fellows for networking, problem-solving, and partnership
- Visibility on the Gratitude Network website, social media, newsletter and various virtual and live events
Eligibility
- Open to leaders from organisations serving children/youth
- Open to both nonprofit and for profit social enterprises
- A social enterprise must have been running for at least one year
- Social enterprise must have at least two full-time employees (including the Applicant)
- Social enterprise’s beneficiaries must primarily be children/youth
- Social enterprise must be serving children/youth in school systems, training of teachers, education technology, and early childhood programmes as well as how/what children learn at school or outside of the classroom; health and wellbeing such as addressing children’s basic needs, including poverty alleviation, nutrition, water, safe shelter, disease prevention, mental health, and social-emotional health
- Children’s rights such as protecting children and families from abuse, exploitation, trafficking, incarceration, and other harm, as well as other advocacy
- Applicant has strategic decision-making power for the social enterprise as the organisation’s founder/co-founder, executive director, CEO, or similar level
To apply and for more information, click here.
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