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

  • 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

Make Startups Executive Fellowship

Information Session

January 26, 2024

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)

Spring 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

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