Applications open for Pakistan Acumen Fellowship

The Pakistan Acumen Fellowship is a rigorous leadership program that brings together a cohort of extraordinary individuals working on problems of poverty and equips them with the knowledge, skills, and community to strengthen their leadership and scale their impact to create meaningful change in Pakistan.

After Fellow Candidates complete the program they join The Foundry, a community of like-minded peers who are working across sectors and geographies to build a world based on dignity. As part of this diverse community committed to sharing ideas and experiences, they gain access to capital, coaching, and continuous learning as part of lifelong accompaniment on their journey to creating social change.

Acumen Fellows in Pakistan are actively addressing a range of challenges spanning education, healthcare, and environmental advocacy. Through impactful ventures such as equitable school models, climate-resilient farming practices, and accessible healthcare initiatives, they are empowering communities and paving the way for a more just and prosperous Pakistan.

Funding Information

• While the Fellowship is fully-funded for Fellow Candidates, they don’t provide any funding or additional benefits as part of the program. Some of their regions provide need-based funding for the Selection Conference. This will be communicated to the participants if they are selected for the Selection Conference.

Outcomes

• The Foundry: Fellows belong to the global community, The Foundry, that accompanies them over a lifetime, creating opportunities for support, collaboration and collective impact.
• Moral Leadership: Fellows help catalyze the practices of Moral Leadership within society, building a growing movement that strives to role-model a world based on dignity.
• Reimagining success: Fellows help shape the actions of their organizations and initiatives to build solutions that reimagine the goals, structures, and rules of existing systems in order to meaningfully address systemic problems of poverty.

The Foundry

• Connect with deep local and diverse global community: Expand your network of social innovators for support and collaboration
• Secure early-stage funding: Pitch for early-stage catalytic capital through Acumen Angels
• Leverage expert support to scale impact: Get expert coaching and consulting from our partners
• Elevate your impact in the public eye: Gain recognition for your work to amplify impact across new domains.
• Learn to think differently: Solve challenges with tools and learning resources purpose-built for social innovators.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Fellowship looks for “builders” who are working to solve problems of poverty.  Builders include founders, CEOs, and senior leaders (COO, MD, etc.) at for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid social enterprises as well as corporate or government sector entrepreneurs. While these titles offer a glimpse of the types of roles Fellows play, what matters most is what you’re building and the track record of your impact.
• Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience and should be able to demonstrate their commitment to solving issues of poverty.
• Applicants should demonstrate their ability and willingness to give (contributing their knowledge, experiences, networks, and/or ideas) and receive support from the Foundry.
• Applicants must have a reliable internet connection, be fully available to participate throughout the entirety of the program, and be able to participate in English.

For more information, visit Acumen Academy.