Fully-Funded Food Systems Fellowship for Leaders and Entrepreneurs Remotely and in the US at Acumen Academy 2023

Acumen Academy is offering a fully-funded Food Systems Fellowship for leaders and entrepreneurs from all over the world, which is a one-year leadership development program from April 2023 to November 2023 remotely and at headquarters in the US. The Food Systems Fellowship will introduce moral leadership concepts to a globally diverse cohort of 20 food systems builders who are creating more equitable, nourishing, and regenerative food systems. With leading food systems facilitators, Fellows will participate in a blend of immersive seminars, workshops, and self-directed leadership experiments. The program will combine in-person and virtual learning over the course of the Fellowship year.

1. Join a globally diverse cohort of experienced food systems builders in a rigorous year-long experience.
2. Improve your capacity to innovate and drive change within food systems by practicing essential systems leadership skills.
3. Learn via a mix of immersive seminars, workshops, and self-directed leadership experiments with the support of trained facilitators and world class experts.
4. Part-time — you stay in your job while participating in the program.
5. Bring examples from your work into the program to guide your learning, then take learnings from the program back to guide your work and create or increase impact.
6. Acumen covers all fellowship-related expenses during the fellowship year. This includes all costs associated with the in-person seminars including lodging, food, transportation and visas, as well as technology costs associated with virtual seminars.

1. Currently lead or be a part of building one of more an organizations or initiative that exists to tackle poverty or injustice within food systems.
2. Demonstrate a long term commitment to food systems work including more than 5 years of work experience in the sector anywhere in the world.
3. Be in a position of leadership where you work, meaning you have the capacity to influence change.
4. Demonstrate self-awareness and the ability to challenge yourselfto grow as a leader.
5. Live in a place with telephone and internet coverage so that you can actively participate in an online learning environment.
6. Have the ability to read and write texts of medium complexity in English and basic handling of social platforms (e.g. Whatsapp) so that you can be an active member of the community.

About Acumen Academy:

Acumen was founded by Jacqueline Novogratz in 2001 to use power of entrepreneurship to build a world where everyone had the opportunity to live with dignity. The goal was to invest “Patient Capital” to bridge the gap between the efficiency and scale of market-based approaches and the social impact of pure philanthropy.

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