Deadline: 14-Oct-22
The Morgridge Family Foundation (MFF) is accepting applications for Morgridge Acceleration Program (MAP) Fellowship matches nonprofit executives, called MAP Mentors, with emerging leaders, called MAP Fellows, looking to create a positive impact while developing professional skill sets and networks.
Twelve leading nonprofit executives representing different industries have issued unique challenges designed to engage MAP Fellows in the intense and rewarding experience of change-making. Fellows remain in their current, full-time jobs while dedicating approximately 15 hours a month, or 90 hours total, to the program.
MAP Fellows commit to opportunities that foster community, personal and professional growth, and leadership development. They’ll bring the lessons they learn and relationships they build back to their full-time positions, sharing the knowledge and networks they gain with their primary employer and colleagues.
Qualities
The MAP Fellowship focuses on unlocking and unleashing the potential of the next generation of social sector leadership. Fellows have demonstrated remarkable accomplishments early in their careers and crave opportunity for collaboration and coaching from esteemed leaders in their field. They exhibit a few key characteristics:
- Imagination: They are emerging social impact leaders with the skills to tactically and creatively solve their MAP Challenge.
- Initiative: They have a track record of being the driver on a foggy road: navigating the uncertain, understanding when to ask for directions, and ultimately finding their way.
- Integrity: They do the right thing and rise to commitments of the fellowship.
Programme Highlights
- Challenge: Mentors identify a challenge facing their organization that fellows commit to solving over six months. Each fellow pledges approximately 10 hours a month to solve the problem. Along the way, mentors provide hands-on guidance and knowledge.
- Challenge Fund: Up to $5,000 is available for each organization to test, explore, and further innovate their challenge solution with their fellow. Proposals for the funds must be received by February 1, 2023, and will be approved pending challenge relevance.
- Kick-Off Event: The kick-off event, hosted by MindSpark Learning and generously underwritten by The Rieschel Family Foundation, is designed to be immersive, hands-on, and fun, challenging fellows to grow leadership skills and collaborate with mentors to develop the strategies needed for their solutions to thrive. The kick-off event will take place in Miami, Florida, from January 19, 2023, through January 22, including travel.
- Coaching: Fellows receive extensive support from working with a public-speaking coach to prepare for their culmination event presentations in Washington, DC. Watch the presentations from last year here.
- Mind Melds: Fellows meet three times for a virtual brainstorming session that mines the collective thought of their peers. Each fellow will host a portion of the Mind Meld to pose questions they are navigating while solving their challenge. The diverse perspectives and experiences of the cohort drive dialogue that inspires an innovative course of action.
- Cohort Convenings: Fellows and mentors participate in two virtual events throughout the program that facilitate community-building. In the past, these events have included speed networking, wine tastings, and challenging conversations sparked by a behind-the-scenes tour with the Denver Art Museum.
- Nonprofit Site Visit: Fellows visit their mentors for two days to allow fellows and mentors to work together on-site and to provide the fellow an opportunity to shadow and observe their mentor in action. Fellows and mentors must schedule their site visit by February 1, 2023, and complete it by May 1, 2023.
- Culmination Event: The program culminates with an event where each fellow presents to an audience of public, private, and social sector leaders, providing them a platform to share their MAP experience. The culmination event will occur in Washington, D.C., from July 11, 2023, through July 13, 2023, including travel.
- MAP Summit Grant: Upon completion of the Fellowship, fellows are invited to apply for a Summit Grant. This pool of $50,000 is available exclusively to them for continuing their growth as social impact leaders.
Benefits
The Morgridge Family Foundation will:
- Cover the cost of all travel, meals, and accommodation expenses for mentors and fellows throughout the program.
- Provide each nonprofit up to $5,000 for their Fellow to test, explore, and further innovate their work.
- Oversee all programming and logistics of the fellowship except the fellow site visits. While MFF funds the site visits, scheduling and logistics are the responsibility of the fellow and mentor.
- MFF’s Program Team will work closely with program participants throughout their collaboration, acting as thought partners, coaches, and facilitators.
- MFF’s Communications Team will amplify the cohort’s work and is available to publish content as interested by each fellow and mentor.
- MFF’s Senior Impact Analyst will lead the measurement and evaluation of the program and the impact of each Fellow.
Eligibility Criteria
- MFF invites esteemed, diverse nonprofit executives to apply for a limited number of openings. In order to be selected, candidates must submit a compelling challenge their organization is facing and make the case for how a fellow can solve that problem during the six-month program.
- All MAP Fellows must live in the United States and be able to travel domestically as outlined by the program.
- Graduate students are encouraged to apply for the MAP Fellowship.
For more information, visit MFF.
For more information, visit https://discovermap.org/map-fellowship/