Impact Fellowship

is a cohort style social enterprise accelerator program which aims to create modern social businesses that are driven by a balance between profits and impact.

Impact Fellowship

is a cohort style social enterprise accelerator program which aims to create modern social businesses that are driven by a balance between profits and impact. The program is designed to identify early-stage entrepreneurs who have identified a problem they are interested in solving and have developed a solution/idea to resolve that problem.

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Program components

Learners Centered- based Training

Impact Fellows will undergo high-impact training from the Jon Freeman School of Social Entrepreneurship based on a twelve-module curriculum delivered in 6 weeks.

Field Exploratory Research

Impact Fellows will conduct peer-led exploratory research to better understand the problems they seek to solve to inform their solutions. This would include travel within and outside Liberia.

Executive Sessions

Impact Fellows will engage in proprietary executive sessions looking into cross-cutting themes like leadership, resilience, governance, etc., organized in collaboration with renowned CEOs and leaders from Liberia and worldwide.

Entrepreneurship Bootcamps

Impact Fellows will engage in two (2) residential boot camps during the fellowship. The boot camps are immersive working sessions where Impact Fellows build the business models for their ventures.

Pitching

Impact Fellows will be trained in pitching their strategic stories and get several opportunities to pitch their businesses to local and international investors to gain funding.

Life-long Connection

Impact Fellows will become a part of YOCEL’s network of social entrepreneurs and gain access to a host of future opportunities, support systems, and networks of entrepreneurs across Liberia.

Program model

The Impact Fellowship is a twelve-month-long fellowship designed to give Impact Fellows hands-on training through a world-class capacity-building curriculum and experiential development activities where they immerse themselves in the problems and learn from solutions implemented in other countries. The program ensures the fellows develop an entrepreneurial mindset by building their social ventures to address local problems with globally sound solutions.

Enrollment

Call for Applications
Duration: 4 weeks

Capacity building

Curriculum training / bootcamps
Executive Sessions
Exploratory Research
Duration: 12 weeks

Incubation period

Coaching & Mentorship
Pitching Competitions
Seed fund investment
Duration: 36 weeks

Life-long Connection

Continuous Follow-up & Evaluation
Impact Alumni Network
Duration: Life-long

Enrollment

The program will begin with a Call for Application inviting interested women and youth Entrepreneurs to apply to be enrolled into the program. The call for application will be open for a two (2) week period. Applicants will be required to meet the eligibility requirement outlined below.

Eligibility Requirements:

Candidates must be fluent in English language

Candidates must have an early-stage business (not more than 3 years of operations) or must have a proven idea or solution.

Businesses do not need to be registered to qualify for this program.

Candidates are within the ages of 18 – 35.

Candidates must commit to actively participate in the year-long fellowship include physical and virtual activities during the period.

Candidates must have no previous criminal records or have been involved in any case involving crime, extortion, manipulation, or fraud.

Businesses must be innovating in priority industries such as Agriculture, Technology and Financial Services.

Businesses must be 100% Liberian-owned.

Impact Fellowship