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Fulcrum Fellowship Application

The Fulcrum Fellowship at the Center for Community Investment is an intensive, hands-on program designed to equip leaders with the community investment, racial equity, and adaptive leadership knowledge and skills to ignite lasting change in communities.

CCI’s capital absorption framework is an approach that communities can use to organize capital for what matters most to them: climate resilience infrastructure, shared ownership of community assets, the production and preservation of affordable housing at a scale that meets community needs, inclusive economic development, and much more. By articulating a shared priority, creating and executing an investable pipeline of projects, and improving their enabling environment (the context in which investment takes place), communities can move toward achieving their goals at scale and building more effective community investment systems so that they can more easily and efficiently accomplish those goals.

To be considered for the 2024 Fulcrum Fellows class, which runs from March 2024 to March 2025, you must submit your application by Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 11:59pm PST. You will not be able to submit a partial or incomplete application. If you have any additional questions or would like to connect with us, please email [email protected].

First round interviews for the Fellowship will be held October 12-18, group interviews with alumni of the program will be held October 23-24, and second round interviews will be held November 6-9.

Fulcrum Fellowship FAQs.
Download an application guide.
Download the Intent to Participate Form (required for your application).

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Name(Required)

First Last

Pronouns

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)

Job Title(Required)

Please select the category or categories that best represent the field in which you work:(Required)

Community Health

Affordable Housing

Climate Resilience

Philanthropy

Economic Development and Small Business

Shared Ownership

Creative Placemaking

Finance

Other

If you selected "other," feel free to share more:

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

Other

If you selected "other," feel free to share more:

What is your gender identity?

Please self-describe.

Applicant Background and Context

Please attach a current CV/resume(Required)

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, Max. file size: 50 MB.

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

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, jpg, png, jpeg, Max. file size: 50 MB.

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

What makes this the right time for you to participate in this kind of program?(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:

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 is the long-term result you are striving for and how will this core piece of work move you toward that result?Who are the intended beneficiaries of this work? What will success look like?(Required)

What will it take to advance this work? Who in your ecosystem will support you in moving this work forward and how will you engage them? What will be some of the political and social considerations you will have to navigate? If this work is underway, what political or social barriers have you already faced and how have you begun to address them?(Required)

What is or will be the role of capital in your core piece of work? How has/might community investment (leveraging money beyond grant funding) make a difference in achieving your results?(Required)

How will the work you focus on during the Fellowship advance racial and economic justice?(Required)

Who else might you have to influence or align with to move your work forward? What aspects of those potential relationships/partnerships 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. How did you contribute to the failure; what was your “part of the mess”? What did you learn, and how have you implemented those learnings?(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 with expressed assurance of challenge as organizational priority (from CEO or board support)

Max. file size: 50 MB.

Letter of support from direct supervisor(Required)

Max. file size: 50 MB.

Signed personal commitment to participate (You can download this form using the link at the top of this page)(Required)

Max. file size: 50 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)

113 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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

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