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List of Fellowships For SEA Impact Founders!

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Nelson Ng
August 21, 2024 • Est. Reading Time: 11 minutes

Hi SEA Impact Founders đź‘‹

Why join Fellowships? They are the perfect platform to meet like-minded folks, learning useful skills and resources, and even receive grants!

Here are a list of prestigious fellowships for SEA leaders who are in the social and environmental impact world.

Feel free to share the list with relevant folks (note: they will have to subscribe to Good Karma Club first!)

More useful resources to come!

DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Nelson Ng

Table of Contents

1. YSEALI Professional Fellows Program

YSEALI PFP, fully-funded by U.S. Department of State, provides emerging leaders from Southeast Asia the opportunity to spend five to six weeks in the United States gaining professionally relevant fellowship experiences at non-profit, public, or private sector organizations.

Current & Past Fellows: Amelia Tan | Divyah Thiagu | Robertus Theodore

2. Edmund Hilary Fellowship

Edmund Hilary Fellowship was designed to attract to Aotearoa NZ, world-changing innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to collectively solve pressing issues facing humanity, through a globally unique visa programme.

Current & Past Fellows: Angela Lim | Lisa Nelson | Sai Hossain

3. Eishenhower Fellowship

Eishenhower Fellowship brings 20-25 mid-career leaders from as many countries to the US for four-to-five weeks of intensive professional exploration, interaction and exchange. Fellows meet 70 to 100 virtual and in-person meetings with corporate CEO’s, top government and NGO officials and experts in their fields of interest.

Current & Past Fellows: Chen Chow Yeoh | Eka Lorena Surbakti | Tuyet Vu

4. Acumen Fellowship

The Acumen Fellowship program 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 the capacity of their ventures to scale and create meaningful change.

Current & Past Fellows: Joelle Pang | Cher Chua-Lassalvy | Xiao Cheng Wong

5. Echoing Green Fellowship

Echoing Green Fellowship for impact founders to build and grow leadership skills and develop the strategies needed for ideas to thrive. A stipend over 18 months (80,000 USD). Funding offered to for-profit organizations is in the form of recoverable grants.

Current & Past Fellows: Shriti Pandey | Hemakshi Meghani | Rebecca Hui

6. AsiaGlobal Fellows Program

AsiaGlobal Fellows Program is a Hong Kong-based program that aims to cultivate future leaders. Through a rigorous curriculum, experiential learning, and engagement with experts, fellows gain deep insights into geopolitics, economics, sustainability, technology, and governance. Thus far, the program has nurtured 93 fellows from over 54 nations across all continents.

7. GLG Social Impact Fellowship

GLG Social Impact Fellowship provides selected nonprofits and social enterprises with a pro bono GLG partnership. Over the years, we’ve partnered with nearly 100 Fellow organizations to help create real change for millions of people in more than 150 countries around the world.

Current & Past Fellows: Matthew Kwok | Fion Leung | Achint Sanghi

8. Ashoka Fellowship

Ashoka Fellowship supports every Ashoka Fellow with a tailored timeline of investments and support over their lifetime. Each Fellow will receive stipend for up to three years, if needed, for the Fellow to dedicate themselves full time to the advancement of their idea, and customized engagement opportunities that accelerate their impact.

Current & Past Fellows: Bas van Abel | Gautam Bhardwaj | Zhihan Lee

9. The Unreasonable Fellowship

The Unreasonable Fellowship is an invite-only community for growth-stage entrepreneurs who bake their impact into the DNA of their profit model. Our CEOs gain access to a curated, international community of 418 fellow leaders running growth-stage ventures, 2,400 investors, 1,140 mentors, and some of the world's most powerful institutions. With a global community of life-long support, we give entrepreneurs an unfair advantage.

Current & Past Fellows: Chu Xian Oh | Liris Maduningtyas | Keong Chun Chieh

Link (by nomination only): https://unreasonablegroup.com/fellowship

10. The Global Good Fund Fellowship

The Global Good Fund Fellowship is a 12-month hybrid leadership program for social entrepreneurs around the world. Each leader receives professional executive coaching, c-suite business mentorship, $10,000 to spend exclusively on their leadership development, customized tools, resources, training and networking opportunities to scale their social impact.

Current & Past Fellows: Robert Luo | William Smith-Stubbs | Soumya Dabriwal

11. Cordes Fellowship

Cordes Fellowship program provided annual scholarships for 50 of the world’s most promising emerging social entrepreneurs to participate as full delegates in the Opportunity Collaboration (OC), an annual gathering in Mexico of 400+ global leaders building sustainable solutions to poverty and injustice.

Current & Past Fellows: Meena Palaniappan | Prasoon Kumar | Saje Molato

12. One Young World Fellowship

One Young World Fellowship provides scholarships for delegates to attend the One Young World Summit - the world’s largest social impact summit for young leaders. The Summit is the ultimate place to be inspired, share learnings, and connect. Every leader who attends leaves the Summit as a One Young World Ambassador and a valued member of our global community.

Current & Past Fellows: Qyira Yusri | Janu Muhammad | Liyann Ooi

13. Mira Fellowship

The Mira Fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for motivated people to address our most pressing issues by stepping back, finding a new perspective, and creating an action plan. The fellowship is cohort-based and remotely collaborates monthly as well as meeting in person several times a year. Each fellow receives coaching, support, access to exclusive micro-grants for their project.

Current & Past Fellows: Han Yan Yuen | Naomi Stone | Lin Shi

14. Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative

The Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) is an innovative academic program designed to unleash the potential of experienced leaders to help solve society’s most pressing challenges. ALI Fellows come to Harvard and embark on a year-long immersion in inter-disciplinary academic learning, leadership development, and peer-to-peer collaboration to develop a social impact strategy focused on their issue of choice.

Current & Past Fellows: Emily Chien | Tae Yoo | Anh Sawyer

15. Watson Institute’s Impact Fellowship

Watson Institute Impact Fellowships are designed to empower and accelerate the ventures and careers of highly promising, historically disenfranchised rising entrepreneurs and leaders. These fully funded fellowships are offered in collaboration with prominent corporations and foundations, providing comprehensive support and training to help fellows make a meaningful impact in their communities.

Current & Past Fellows: Anushka Purohit | Ran Guo | Shuqi Shi

16. TED Fellows Program

The TED Fellows program is a community of the brightest, most ambitious thinkers, future-shapers and culture-shakers from nearly every discipline and corner of the world. The program provides critical skills that are often outside of an early-stage innovator’s field of expertise — skills in networking, communications, strategic planning, and more.

Current & Past Fellows: Cesar Jung-Harada | Mei Lin Neo | Xavier Alpasa

Link (by nomination only): https://fellows.ted.com/program

17. Skoll Fellowship

The Skoll Fellowship is a peer-centered network of 200+ leaders across 96 countries that supports cross-region connectivity, learning, and visibility for social innovators. Every year a new cohort of Fellows meets at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, a moment that kicks-off a long-term journey of mutual care, shared learning and regional connection opportunities.

Current & Past Fellows: Sumitra Pasupathy | Arief Aziz | Helianti Hilman

18. Asia Foundation Development Fellowship

The Asia Foundation Development Fellows program is a dynamic and multifaceted learning program designed for highly talented individuals from Asia and the Pacific under age 40 to enhance their leadership skills, regional development knowledge, professional networks, and international exposure.

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