Fellowship & Leadership Programs

100x Impact Accelerator is a venture accelerator that backs impact ventures capable of improving hundreds of millions of lives through systemic change. They provide catalytic capital, world-class expertise, and access to a community of mentors, advisors, and funders, all focused on deep systems-change support. Their ventures deliver impact across education, climate, healthcare, and other global challenges. 100x Impact operates with the mission to scale social innovations that can achieve systemic change, recognizing that while the world has many social innovations, very few scale effectively. They are powered by LSE (London School of Economics) and leverage evidence-based research, expert guidance, and global convening reach. Their approach combines funding with LSE's academic rigor and venture insights shared across the ecosystem to drive impact at scale. The organization has established itself as a significant player in the impact investing ecosystem by backing 35 ventures that have collectively impacted 144 million lives across 45 countries. They have demonstrated their effectiveness by helping ventures secure substantially more capital after completing their program, with participants raising 15 times more funding. Their focus on creating 'impact unicorns' and sharing proven insights globally positions them as a catalyst for scaling impactful solutions worldwide.

Acumen is a venture philanthropy organization that invests in visionary entrepreneurs building transformational companies from seed to scale. They focus on funding bold entrepreneurs who are creating inclusive solutions across sectors like sustainable agriculture, quality education, renewable energy, healthy communities, dignified jobs, and gender equality. Their mission is to break the cycle of poverty through patient capital investments in high-innovation, high-impact enterprises. They operate by deploying philanthropic capital to shape markets and support entrepreneurs who are addressing the world's toughest poverty-related challenges, investing where traditional funders won't. Acumen Ventures has established itself as a significant force in the impact investing ecosystem since 2001, with an A to Z directory of portfolio companies spanning over two decades. They matter because they've reinvented the rules of return, prioritizing impact alongside financial sustainability and helping to demonstrate that venture philanthropy can drive meaningful systemic change in underserved communities globally.

Echoing Green is a leading incubator for social impact startups that discovers emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in the growth of their ideas and leadership. They work at the intersection of social justice and social innovation, connecting their expertise and global networks to emerging leaders creating long-lasting social change. Their mission centers on supporting bold ideas and extraordinary leaders through an intensive 18-month fellowship program that provides seed funding and leadership development. They have designed a world-class global search process that elevates better indicators of potential beyond just business plans, prioritizing diversity of experience and perspective while offering a learning experience for all applicants. For over 35 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world's biggest problems by building a broad, dynamic ecosystem to support transformational leaders. Their impact in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem is significant, having supported notable success stories like Teach For America's Wendy Kopp and Last Mile Health's Raj Panjabi, demonstrating their ability to identify and nurture ideas that become international game-changers.

Fast Forward is a nonprofit accelerator focused on supporting tech nonprofits building scalable technology solutions for social and environmental impact. Since 2014, the organization has helped mission-driven founders grow technology platforms addressing challenges across education, healthcare, climate, economic opportunity, civic engagement, and digital inclusion. Through accelerator programs, funding, mentorship, strategic partnerships, and ecosystem support, Fast Forward empowers nonprofits using technology and AI to improve lives at scale.

The Global Good Fund is a nonprofit social enterprise that identifies high-potential social impact leaders and accelerates their success through executive mentorship, professional leadership coaching, and capital. They focus on entrepreneurs tackling five key social issues: economic mobility, education, environment, financial inclusion, and health. Built by social entrepreneurs for social entrepreneurs, the organization operates through multiple channels including nonprofit programs, consulting services, and an impact fund, with proceeds from their consultancy and fund donated back to support more programs. Their proprietary development methods are designed to grow leaders who can achieve greater social impact. The Global Good Fund serves as a social impact accelerator that believes growing leaders is the most effective strategy for solving complex social problems and achieving global good. Their impact ecosystem creates a sustainable model where successful entrepreneurs can pay it forward, creating a ripple effect of sustainable community impact across their global network of change-makers.

Halcyon is a leading impact accelerator that has been empowering early-stage social entrepreneurs since 2014. Founded by Dr. Sachiko Kuno and Kate Goodall, the organization takes its name from the historic Halcyon House in Georgetown, Washington, DC, reflecting its founding mission to provide a haven where bold founders tackling the world's most pressing problems can find support, optimism, and belief. Since its inception, Halcyon has supported over 650 entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries, helping them scale their sustainable, world-changing solutions through a bold, founder-first accelerator model. Halcyon's programs provide early-stage social entrepreneurs with critical resources including space, community, and access to networks. Their comprehensive support includes tailored business training for product-market fit, capital strategy, and leadership development, along with additional resources to help founders scale their ventures. Through Halcyon Fund I & II, the HVP Angels, and partnerships with their ecosystem, they educate and invest in impact-driven founders. The organization's far-reaching impact is made possible through the generous support of donors, supporters, partners, and a passionate global team dedicated to accelerating the impact-driven future of business.

Sorenson Impact Institute is a multidisciplinary impact institute housed at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business and, according to both its own site and Sorenson Impact Group, one of the Group's four branches. Its official history traces the organization to a student-run venture fund founded in 2001 and says impact investor Jim Sorenson endowed the work in 2013. The Institute was previously known as Sorenson Impact Center. The 2001 date therefore describes its institutional lineage, not the incorporation date of a freestanding Sorenson Impact Institute legal entity. The Institute is primarily an institute, applied-research and program operator, education provider, convener, and professional-services provider. Its current practice areas help foundations, investment portfolios, companies, governments, health systems, nonprofits, impact funds, and other clients with impact-investing strategy, impact-finance structures, and impact measurement and management. Published examples include portfolio impact strategy and diligence, community equity funds, opportunity-zone work, outcomes-based finance, research, reporting frameworks, and student experiential learning. A client engagement, research project, or student-managed investment exercise is not necessarily an investment made by the Institute. In 2026 the Institute also operated the Collaboration Fund, a pooled grant fund supporting strategic consolidation among nonprofit field-building organizations in impact investing, inclusive capitalism, and immediately related fields. The RFP anticipated that most grants would be US$100,000-$400,000 and allowed merger feasibility, due diligence, legal and consulting, integration, staff-transition, change-management, and strategic-communications costs. Those award expectations applied only to that time-limited RFP: letters of intent were due June 11, full proposals were due August 22, and the public page promised lump-sum distribution after selection. As of this profile's September 18 review, both deadlines had passed. The Institute must not be conflated with other Sorenson entities. Sorenson Impact Foundation is a distinct U.S. private foundation (EIN 45-3203840) whose filings report its own assets and charitable disbursements; an Institute project page describes the Foundation as a client for a program-related-investment measurement framework. Sorenson Impact Funds develops investment products, while Sorenson Impact Advisory identifies itself as an SEC-registered investment adviser. Their portfolios, assets, investments, grants, and returns do not belong to the Institute. Likewise, the University of Utah houses the Institute but is not its interchangeable funder identity, and named initiatives such as University Venture Fund remain program-specific.