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Metzo joins the program midway through the 2022-23 Fellowship cohort, which includes Fellows from four Minnesota Initiative Foundation regions. Recruiting for the 2024-25 cohort will begin in spring 2023. ....
Pixabay (KNSI) – An organization will award $30,000 a year for the next two years to eight people to develop them into leaders and social entrepreneurs.
“It’s a business that has both a profit motive and a purpose motive. It’s a business that has a mission. A social mission of some sort or an environmental mission of some sort. And, you know, is trying to make a profit, or at least support itself.”
He says the $30,000 is intended to help the recipients pursue any idea they want, even if it means possibly dialing down their full-time work. The stipend helps with living expenses and training expenses to get their plan off the ground. ....
The Initiators Fellowship, launched by the Initiative Foundation in 2016, is available to social entrepreneurs in its 14-county service area including Cass, Crow Wing, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd and Wadena. ....