Applications are open.
Dates: July 20th, 2023 – October 31st, 2023
Time Commitment: 10-12 hours per week
Format: Virtual with an in-person Immersive in Boulder, CO
Cost: Fully-funded with seed funding opportunities
Provides award-winning training, committed mentorship, and a powerful community of peers for next generation entrepreneurs to advance their impact-focused ventures, careers, and lives. The ideal candidate for the Watson Institute Venture Accelerator is an entrepreneur whose impact venture is in the Product Market Fit or Scaling Stages.
Applications are open.
Dates: Starts in August 2023
Time Commitment: 3 or 4 year degree program
Format: In-Person in Boca Raton, Florida
Cost: Tuition-based program with scholarships
The revolutionary Bachelor of Science in Social Impact and Entrepreneurship from Lynn University, in collaboration with Watson Institute, is designed for students to major in their mission, gain experience as interns with leading organizations in their field, and develop the skill sets necessary to create impactful, successful careers.
Applications will launch in Spring 2024.
Dates: 2024 dates will be announced in the fall of 2023.
Time Commitment: 10-12 hours per week
Format: Virtual with an in-person immersive and programming in Atlanta
Cost: Fully-Funded with seed funding opportunities
Equips entrepreneurs, small business owners, and nonprofit founders with technical training, directly applicable business skills, and financial literacy to increase their positive impact within the communities they support through job creation and economic development. This Fellowship is for individuals impacting or serving emerging markets across rural and urban Georgia.
Applications will launch in June 2023.
Dates: Fall 2023.
Time Commitment: 10-12 hours per week
Format: Fully-virtual with localized in-person events
Cost: Fully-funded with seed funding opportunities
The Western Union Foundation Fellowship is for next-generation entrepreneurs and community leaders from and working with highly marginalized, refugee, and forcibly displaced communities around the globe. This program is ideal for early-stage entrepreneurs.
Applications will launch in Fall 2023.
Dates: 2024 dates will be announced in the Fall of 2023.
Time Commitment: 10-12 hours per week
Format: Fully-virtual with localized in-person events
Cost: Fully funded with seed funding opportunities
The Ford Fund Fellowship is an accelerator program designed to equip 25 next-gen entrepreneurs with the skills, resources, and experience to scale the impactful ventures they are building. This program is ideal for entrepreneurs in the prototyping and beyond stage and is social issue agnostic.
Applications are open.
Dates: September 2nd – December 14th.
Time Commitment: 5-8 hours per week
Format: Virtual with an in-person immersive and optional programming in Bradford, PA
Cost: Fully-funded with seed funding opportunities
This Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute, will provide robust entrepreneurial training, mentorship, and seed funding to aspiring, early-stage entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders in the Bradford area. Fellows will deepen and expand the local entrepreneurial ecosystem with new and innovative ideas and ventures.
If you are not from one of the required countries, but the impact that you are creating with your venture is in one of the required countries, we will consider your application. Please make it clear where and how you are creating impact. Otherwise, take a look at one of our other programs that do not have country specific requirements. Our flagship Venture Accelerator is typically open to all countries.
We launch applications 4 months prior to the start of the program. Once an application is submitted it will take about two weeks for us to review. For applicants who make it through to the interview round, we release final admission decisions on a rolling basis and within a few weeks of your interview.
The average age for our Fellows is 29. We do not have age restrictions but we do take into consideration your professional background, education, venture stage, and entrepreneurial experience to best assess your fit for our programs.
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