Apply for Global Solvers Accelerator Program

 Deadline Date: December 15, 2024

 Donor Name: Melton Foundation

 Grant Size: Not Available

Connecting grassroots experiences, empowering community leaders, and unleashing transformative change! At the Global Solvers Accelerator, social impact leaders from around the world come together to grow their skills and amplify their SDG impact.

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.

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.

Benefits

• 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 the 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.

Modules

• Making Sense Together: Social Impact Projects.
• Converging in Purpose: Team (diversity, dynamic, efficiency)
• Collective Leadership: Leadership (capacity, self- management, empowerment)
• Encompassing Transformation: Transformation (resilience, social innovation, change)
• Ecosystem Gardening: System and Complexity (social capital, networks, power dynamics)
• Modeling Impact: Impact (dimensions, models, consciousness)
• Unleashing Change: Strategic Visibility (audience engagement, storytelling, communicating narratives)
• Recalibrating Impact: Monitoring and evaluation (data-first, human-centeredness, iterative)

Eligibility Criteria

• The Global Solvers Accelerator is a collective learning journey with and for SDG practitioners worldwide!
  • Are you a young community development practitioner aged between 20 – 35 years, who is curious, responsible, forward-thinking, with a proven track record of social impact, and actively engaged in or leading a local impact project currently.
  •  Are you looking to connect with like-minded peers to make a better sense of the world together.
  • Then you are the ideal participant for the program.
• Participants Profile
  • Age: Between 20 -35 years
  • Participation: Internet Access, time and sufficient English language skills.
  • Global Citizenship: Desires to connect in diversity and collaborate with global peers on addressing pressing issues
  • Mindset: Curious, open-minded, accountable, self-reflective and team player
  • Acceleration: Committed to furthering project impact and to transform society
  • Leadership: Leverage over or influence on project design and decision making
  • Project: Active involvement in an existing ongoing social impact project
  • Social Engagement: Track record of community development and social impact work

Selection Criteria

• During the selection process, they apply a threefold filter to identify the best-suited candidates:
  • A technical review to ensure that information provided with the application is complete and sufficiently informative
  • An eligibility checks to identify candidates who fully meet the eligibility criteria
  • An in-depth assessment to identify well-suited candidates for the program.
  • A 120 min virtual assessment center for well-suited candidates.

For more information, visit Melton Foundation.