Call For Applications India Acumen Fellowship 2025, Acumen invests in social entrepreneurs across the capital continuum and accompanies them on the journey to create transformational change. At Acumen Academy, we identify and prepare these leaders with the hard skills required to build scalable solutions to poverty and the harder skills of moral leadership to re-imagine and build a better world.
Our India Acumen Fellowship is a transformative program that brings together a cohort of extraordinary individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset and a commitment to solve problems of poverty. We equip them with the tools and community to strengthen their leadership, scale their impact, and create meaningful change in India.
Interested candidates are encouraged to carefully review the fellowship opportunity and submit their applications before the specified deadline.
Last Date of Application: 30th October 2025
About the Fellowship
(Call For Applications India Acumen Fellowship 2025)
Our program is grounded in two decades of experience accompanying social entrepreneurs on the journey from seed to scale. The Fellowship provides new leadership frameworks and through a supportive cohort, Fellows pressure test the new skills they’re learning in real time, and build peer relationships that keep them accountable to their values and commitments as they grow and scale their impact.
Curriculum
(Call For Applications India Acumen Fellowship 2025)
Polarity Management
Learn to operate in a world of opposing views and to cross lines of difference to mobilize others towards a shared cause or problem.
Good Society Readings
Explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical foundation of social change through classic and contemporary texts by thinkers such as Plato, Ursula K. LeGuin, Chimamanda Adichie, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Amartya Sen.
Adaptive Leadership
Learn to understand stakeholders, map their needs, and navigate uncertainty to catalyze change.
Authentic Voice
Learn to tell stories that compel and inspire others to take action in pursuit of a bold idea. Build audience awareness to improve your pitch, talk to investors, form partnerships, and make connections.
Structure
(Call For Applications India Acumen Fellowship 2025)
Fellows remain in their jobs and participate in a 6-month hybrid program consisting of virtual sessions, in-person immersives, and self-paced learning.
- This is a high-level program overview:
- One 3-day virtual Orientation
- Two 5-day full-time in-person immersives (8 hours of assignments for each immersive consisting of self-paced learning and group calls)
- Four Learning Labs (4 hours each along with assignments)
How to apply?
(Call For Applications India Acumen Fellowship 2025)
Application Process
1 Read the Applicant Toolkit: Prepare for your application
2 Submit the Online Application: Oct 30, 2025
3 Participate in the Selection Conference: Jan 16, 2026 – Jan 17, 2026
4 Start your Fellowship Journey
Kick start your application here
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