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Home » Fulcrum Fellowship Application

Fulcrum Fellowship Application

The Fulcrum Fellowship is a program designed and facilitated by the Center for Community Investment at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

This intensive, year-long fellowship brings together current and rising executives who are working to address a significant strategic challenge facing their organization or community. Through an action-learning framework, Fellows build skills in adaptive leadership and collaboration, strengthen their networks, and sharpen their ability to use capital investment to advance community priorities.

Recruitment for the next cohort of Fulcrum Fellows will begin in Spring of 2024.

If you have any additional questions or would like to connect with us, please email [email protected].

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Name(Required)

First Last

Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Phone number(Required)

Email(Required)

Agency/organizational website URL(Required)

Please select the category that best represents the field in which you work(Required)

Community health

Housing and community development

Urban planning

Climate resilience

Philanthropy

Public sector/Government agency

Creative placemaking

Finance

Other

Demographic Information

Please consider answering the following questions, as the data pulled from them will help us track the effectiveness of our recruiting efforts and ensure the diversity of our next cohort of Fellows. Note: Responses to the questions within this section are optional and will not impact the status of your application.

To which race or ethnic group(s) or origin(s) do you primarily identify?

Please select all that apply. If you would prefer to self-describe, please select "other" and type in your response.

American Indian or Alaskan Native

Black or African-American

Asian or Asian-American

Hispanic or Latino/a/x

Middle Eastern

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

White

Prefer not to say

What is your gender identity?

Please self-describe.

Applicant Background and Context

Please attach a current CV/resume(Required)

Max. file size: 1 MB.

Please attach a current organizational chart that shows your position/role in relation to the whole enterprise(Required)

Max. file size: 1 MB.

Why do you want to be a Fulcrum Fellow?(Required)

How did you hear about the Fulcrum Fellowship?(Required)

CCI's website

CCI staff member

Current or former Fulcrum Fellow

Social media

Employer/colleague

Word of mouth

Other

Were you nominated for the Fellowship?(Required)

Yes

If you were nominated, please share the name of who nominated you:(Required)

Short-Answer Essays: Strategy Challenge

During this program, Fulcrum Fellows will be expected to move forward a core, strategic piece of work applying the concepts and themes advanced by the program and using a challenge format that requires Fellows to set aggressive milestones and execute against an accelerated timeline. The challenge should be a substantive one that is central to the Fellow’s job responsibilities and home institution, as well as the community their work intends to serve. Note: The challenge should not be a “special project” created to satisfy the requirements of the Fellowship.

Please answer the following short answer prompts. (Note: The word limit for each response is approximately 300 words.)

What result are you striving for and how will this challenge move you toward that result? Who are the intended beneficiaries of this work? What will success look like?(Required)

What will it take to achieve the result you are aiming for? Who will you need to work with to move this challenge forward and how will you engage them? What will be some of the political and social considerations you will have to work through?(Required)

What is/will be the role of capital in your challenge? How has/might community investment make a difference in achieving your results?(Required)

How will the work you focus on during the Fellowship address issues of racial and economic inequality?(Required)

How does your job/authority relate to the nature of the challenge? (i.e., What aspects are inside your current scope of authority? What aspects are outside of it?)(Required)

Optional: If you are already working on this challenge, how is it going? Where are you making progress and where are you stuck? What parts are written in stone? What aspects are you able and willing to consider adapting and/or shifting?

Short-Answer Essays: Approach

We would like to understand how you currently approach your work. Tell us three quick stories based on the following prompts that illustrate your efforts to advance social and economic opportunity? (Note: The word limit for each response is approximately 300 words.)

Where does your passion for advancing social and economic opportunity come from? How have these origins shaped your work?(Required)

Tell us a story about failure. What happened? How did you contribute to the failure; what was your “part of the mess”?(Required)

Tell us a story about a time when you took a significant personal and professional risk in the service of your results. What did you risk, what led you to take the risk, and what were the consequences?(Required)

Readiness to Participate

Moving forward work that's considered a priority by both your direct supervisor and organization is vital to your participation and success in this program. Please provide the following:

Letter of support from direct supervisor(Required)

Max. file size: 1 MB.

Signed personal commitment to participate (You can access the form in one of the links listed at the beginning of this application or on CCI's website)(Required)

Max. file size: 1 MB.

References

Please provide the name, title, telephone number, and email address for two references who know you and your work well, and who can speak to your ability to use the fellowship opportunity to drive your work and personal growth forward.

Name of first reference(Required)

First Last

Title(Required)

Organization(Required)

Phone number(Required)

Email(Required)

Name of second reference:(Required)

First Last

Title(Required)

Organization(Required)

Phone number(Required)

Email(Required)

Contact Us

Questions? Please email [email protected]

For more information, visit the Fulcrum Fellowship page.

113 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

CCI is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The California Endowment.

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