Executive Fellowship

Every community is uniquely built, with a common blueprint

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 Training & Support

Emphasis on the role of ecosystem builders and economic developers creating opportunities for disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in entrepreneurship

Long Term Economic Impact

Enabling increased funding and better measurement of outcomes by entrepreneurial support programs at the local, state, and national level

The Fellowship Experience

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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