About the Social Impact Fellowship
The Social Impact Fellowship is a transformative program for aspiring changemakers seeking to explore their purpose and understand how they can drive greater social and environmental impact through their work and beyond.
What Makes a Fellow
Social Impact Fellows are ambitious and driven self-starters eager to harness their energy and skills for good by gaining the community, knowledge and skills required to be effective, collaborative agents of change in the 21st century.
Fellows from our cohort have come from all walks of professional life, ranging from those deep in the impact sector to individuals from government to banking to architecture and education, - united by a common desire to positively impact the world. Joining the Fellowship is about more than learning about social impact, it is joining a lifelong community of changemakers with a passion for learning from each other.
We invite you to apply to the Social Impact Fellowship if you have:
- An interest in social impact and entrepreneurship
- A burning desire to grow your impact by applying your current skills and learning new ones
The Program
We are committed to ensuring that finance is not a barrier to participating and provide a number of scholarships each year. We encourage all interested to apply.
The Social Impact Fellowship is an immersive, interactive and evidence-based learning experience. The content and learning journey has been informed by our work on the ground with social entrepreneurs and changemakers and is delivered in partnership with our Professional Impact Network and leading changemakers from across the impact sector.
Fellows will build their knowledge and capability across the following areas:
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21st-century entrepreneurial skills including lean startup methodology
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The world of social entrepreneurship
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Impact investing and its exponential growth
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Impact measurement best practice
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Exploring purpose in your career and creating an authentic personal brand
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Crafting your personal mission and values
Program Structure
The Fellowship is a learning experience that you can curate based on your learning goals that we develop with you during the program. We run two sessions a week (2.5 contact hours in total). These sessions will run on Wednesday nights from 6pm-7.30pm and Friday from 1pm-2pm. Sessions are not compulsory, as Fellows can choose which are most appropriate for their learning journey - with curation supported by our team. All sessions will be recorded and Fellows will have access to these during and following the program, alongside other online learning materials, so it is not essential to attend every session live.
Fellows also receive mentoring and have the opportunity to participate in an interactive impact project and gain practical experience working to address a real-world problem from a social enterprise.
Fellows will also get access to the Scaling Impact Accelerator Program masterclasses covering topics, including:
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Scaling a social enterprise
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Building best practice social enterprise financial models
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Branding and marketing
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Raising capital
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Engaging investors
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Impact measurement
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Team, governance, and culture
How much does it cost?
The Social Impact Fellowship has a $2,600 fee (plus GST) for the program. We are committed to ensuring that finance is not a barrier to participating and provide a number of scholarships each year. We encourage all interested to apply. We can also support you to work with your organisation to cover some or all of the costs as part of your professional development. If you apply before January 2023, you will get access to the early bird rate of $2,400 (plus GST).
What are the time commitments?
We recommend you see the Fellowship program as a chance to curate your own learning experience. We run two sessions a week (2.5 contact hours in total). The Fellowship sessions will run on Wednesday nights from 6pm-7.30pm and Friday from 1pm-2pm. Fellows can choose which sessions they attend live, which they watch as recordings, and which might not be as relevant to them. All recordings will continue to made available after the program ends, alongside other online learning materials, so it is not essential to attend every session live. In addition to the two sessions a week, you will have sessions with your mentor which can be organised around your schedule.
That being said, we believe you get out what you put in so you can make the program as ‘intensive’ as you’d like. There is the opportunity to go through additional online learning and Fellows can also have the option of taking on a project with a social enterprise, doing an online hustling for more introductions, attending events and generally immersing themselves in the world of social impact.
Sessions with your mentor/s as well as projects with social enterprises are structured around your availability.
