Each year, a cohort of 20 project leaders connect hearts, hands and minds to unpack and refine their projects, tap into their collective leadership, and ignite transformative change in their communities and towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Throughout the 8-month program, participants generate ripples of impact: on themselves, by building their leadership capacity and transformative potential; on their local community, by accelerating their social impact project for sustainable development beyond business as usual; and on their global peers, by intersecting their know-how, experience, and humanity.
Program Details
The Global Solvers Accelerator engages emerging change agents from diverse world regions around developing competencies for global citizenship, sustainable development, and collective leadership. Over the course of eight months, participants engaged in purposefully designed module topics, blended learning, project assignments, peer exchange, and subject matter advisory in order to build their capacity and amplify the transformative potential of their social impact projects.
Thus, the Global Solvers Accelerator results in cumulative impact at three levels:
the individual level, by building participants’ capacity for leadership and social impact.
the community level, by unleashing the transformative potential of participants’ social impact projects.
the systemic level, by intersecting different local approaches and contextual know-how, thus creating ripple effects of societal transformation and SDG attainment.
Eligibility
Open to young community development practitioners aged between 20 – 35 years;
Applicant should be curious, responsible, forward-thinking, with a proven track record of social impact, and actively engaged in or leading a local impact project currently;
Be looking to connect with like-minded peers to make a better sense of the world together.
Benefits
By joining the Global Solvers Accelerator, participants stand to gain valuable competencies, insights, connections, and more! Here are some key benefits of becoming a part of the program:
Capacity Building: The program is a springboard for participants to pivot their capacity in areas like collective leadership, transformative impact, and systemic design. Through stimulating thematic contributions, peer exchange, subject matter advisory, and project assignments, participants boost their leadership competencies as well as their global citizenship skills.
Furthering Impact: The 8-month learning journey connects emerging change agents worldwide to refine their social impact initiatives, activate their collective leadership potential, and together ignite transformative change that cuts across barriers of place and identity, furthering the SDGs.
Melton Fellowship: Upon successful completion of the program, participants are eligible to join the Melton Foundation’s lifelong supported community as Senior Melton Fellow, gaining access to a global community of over 600 change catalysts across the globe, project funding through our Action Grants, travel opportunities to global impact events, and more.
Co-Lab: During the program, actively engaged participants will be invited to attend a fully funded in-person workshop. The Global Solvers Co-Lab is an integral part of the program and creates the space for participants to connect in person and co-create transformative pathways together.
Accelerator Fund: Participants have the opportunity to tap into immediate financial resources in support of their social impact project. The Global Solver Accelerator Fund pools a significant percentage of the Program Fees collected from participants and will be made available to deserving projects towards the end of the program.
