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Fellowship Overview

The Make Startups Executive Fellowship increases the impact potential and operational capacity of executives in entrepreneurship support, ecosystem building, and economic development organizations.

Key Components: Six-month program with 2 in-person immersions, bi-weekly online training, one-on-one advising, peer coaching, and local field building initiatives. 

Goals: Equip executives with skills in strategic partnership building, accessing WIOA funding, delivering AI-enabled training, economic impact reporting, and entrepreneurial advocacy.

Fellowship Pillars

  • Sustainable Ecosystem Building: Enabling increased funding and better measurement of outcomes by entrepreneurial support programs at the local, state, and national level. 

  • Inclusive Entrepreneurial Training, Support, & Connections: Emphasis on the role of ecosystem builders and economic developers creating opportunities for disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in entrepreneurship.

  • Long Term Economic Impact: Centering the potential for job creation, inclusive growth, and generational wealth through entrepreneurship training programs that lead to business success.

  • The Fellowship provides programmatic frameworks for mutually beneficial partnerships with:

    Capital providers

    Economic development authorities

    Policy Makers

    Other Startup Ecosystem players

  • The Fellowship equips participants to be ecosystem experts in:

    -Accessing workforce development funding for training programs

    -Designing & delivering industry recognized credentials

    -Measuring entrepreneurial skills gains

    -Documenting startup impacts through household income, job creation and large scale economic impact.

  • The Fellowship provides cutting eduge software to make the following more efficient and scalable:

    -Cohort & mentor management

    -Learning management & loan readiness

    -Connections to capital

    -Economic impact reporting

The Fellowship Experience

January 26th

Information Session

Make Startups Executive Fellowship - Informtion Session January 26, 2024

Timeline

Application Launch: January 5th

Application Window: January 5th - February 4th

Informational Webinar: January 26th

Selection & Notification: February 1st - February 9th

Cohort Confirmation: February 23rd

Program Schedule

Orientation: March 20

Training Dates: March 27, April 10, April 24, May 8, May 22, June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24, August 14, August 28;

All sessions 1pm-3pm EST

Immersions: tentatively April 14-17 (San Antonio, TX), Apr 30 - May2 (Richmond, VA)

Contact Information

Sponsorship & Media Inquires

Grace Belangia, Co-Founder

grace@makestartups.com

Application & Fellowship Operations

Erika Haskins, Head of Partnerships

ehaskins@makestartups.com