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Mulago Foundation’s Henry Arnhold Fellowship Program

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Program Summary:

Henry Arnhold Fellowship: 2026 Cohort. Mulago Foundation.
• Innovative leaders (both for-profit and non-profit) with a conservation or climate solution that works and has potential to go big.
• Impact-obsessed people pioneering effective ways to: 1) protect nature and ecosystems (forests, rivers, oceans, mountains, grasslands); 2) slow down climate change (drop emissions, use energy efficiently, capture carbon) or 3) adapt to the new climate reality.
• 8-10 winners every year.
• Senior executive fellowship with a week-long (all expense paid) workshop at both the beginning and end of the program.
• All countries eligible. Sub-Saharan Africa or South/SE Asia preferred.
• $100k unrestricted grant funding up front. Consideration for follow on funding after program concludes.
• Recommendations due August 7.
• Applications due August 28.

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• How to get someone from your network to recommend you

• Email and LinkedIn messaging templates

• Who to get to recommend you (and why)

• Strategies for getting on the short list

• Why you should look closer at previous winners

• Read between the lines to increase your probability of success

More on Mulago (straight from their website):

Mulago finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor. We fight poverty. Our job is to find the organizations best able to create change and give them what they need to do it.

Mulago is a private foundation designed and built to carry on the life work of Rainer Arnhold. After Rainer's untimely death in 1993, his brother Henry Arnhold established the Foundation in its current form.

Mulago funds a lot of early stage organizations. We also fund organizations taking proven solutions to scale. We operate like a philanthropic venture fund where impact serves as an analog for profit, and cost-per-impact sits in for return on investment. We want the biggest bang for our buck with the least hassle for us and for those we fund.

This means:

• Fund (measurable) Impact

• Solutions, Not Projects

• Unrestricted Money: If we don't think an organization knows how to use the money better than we do, we don't give them any.

• Continued Funding For Increasing Returns

• No Proposals

• Minimal Paperwork

• Engage Well

Thought Pieces:

• Big Aid is Over.

• Funders, Do Your !!@%@#! Job.

• Big Bet Bonanza.

• In Numbers We Trust.

• Mulago's Links: January 2025.

Portfolio Companies / Previous Fellows

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• Here.

• And here.

Are you a leader addressing the basic needs of the very poor… but just not with a conservation/climate solution?

The Henry Arnold Fellowship is likely not for you. But Mulago has another program that will also be actively sourcing in the next few months.

Learn more about it below, alongside other fundraising tips, strategies, and insights (that you can use for more more than just this program from Mulago).

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