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The program awards up to seven fellowships and provides wrap-around training, mentoring and guidance—plus $30,000 annually for two years—to support Fellows and their social enterprise ideas. Read on for news and updates about the selection process, the Fellows and their achievements.

Our Blind Spots Literally Make Us … Blind
October 19, 2020
Since we are unaware of our unconscious biases, we need training, meaningful conversations, a surprising experience or some other encounter to help us see what we haven’t seen before.
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Heeding the Call for Equity, Justice and Inclusion
September 8, 2020
We need to amplify our efforts to support Fellows and alumni in becoming effective champions and catalysts for diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in their Greater Minnesota communities
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The Benefits of Fellowship: Inspiration, Ideas and Connections
September 8, 2020
One of the most unique and powerful activities from which Initiator Fellows benefit is the Brain Trust, an exercise in which we surround Fellows with leading-edge thinkers to help them solve problems and challenges.
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Diversity Enriches Our Lives, Interactions, Communities
August 7, 2020
Fellows’ Pursuit of Diversity Enriches Communities A couple weeks back I met some new neighbors. They were not new to the neighborhood—they moved in more
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Leadership: An Ever-Evolving, Transformational Pursuit
June 9, 2020
Though it’s clear that the far-reaching calls for justice and inclusion should somehow be incorporated into the work of the Initiators Fellowship, it’s less clear to know exactly how.
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Necessity: The Mother of Social Innovation
April 13, 2020
Necessity: The Mother of Social Innovation We have all likely heard the dire predictions of a nationwide shortage of ventilators as the COVID-19 virus spreads
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