The Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Food Systems Fellowship is an intensive, one-year leadership development program offered through Acumen Academy, the world’s school for social change. The Food Systems Fellowship will introduce moral leadership concepts to a globally diverse cohort of 20 food systems builders who are creating more equitable, nourishing, and regenerative food systems. With leading food systems facilitators, Fellows will participate in a blend of immersive seminars, workshops, and self-directed leadership experiments. The program will combine in-person and virtual learning over the course of the Fellowship year.
After Year 1 of the Fellowship, Food Systems Fellows will join Acumen’s global community of social innovators building a world without poverty and injustice.
Year 1: Fellowship Year
– Join a globally diverse cohort of experienced food systems builders in a rigorous year-long experience
– Improve your capacity to innovate and drive change within food systems by practicing essential systems leadership skills
– Learn via a mix of immersive seminars, workshops, and self-directed leadership experiments with the support of trained facilitators and world class experts
– Part-time — you stay in your job while participating in the program
– All program-related costs are covered by the Fellowship
– Bring examples from your work into the program to guide your learning, then take learnings from the program back to guide your work and create or increase impact
Fellowship Roadmap
The three-stage online selection process is designed to understand your capacity, willingness, and potential to grow as systems builders who will be at the forefront of systems change within food systems.
- Apply: tell us about your journey in food systems work so far and your vision moving forward. 16 Oct – 1 Dec 2022
- Complete Assignments: show us your capacity for leadership and the impact of your work. 2 – 15 Jan 2023
- Attend the Selection Conference: connect with food systems finalists across the world and explore why this is the right time for you to be a Fellow. 11 – 12 Mar 2023
- The Rockefeller Foundation – Acumen Food Systems Fellows 2023 Cohort Announcement: Apr 2023
- Immerse Yourself in the Food Systems Fellowship: Apr-Nov 2023
Application Deadline: December 1st, 2022
