FELLOWSHIP PLAYBOOK
Welcome, dear Impact Fellows! This playbook will help you navigate our time together & give you access to all relevant links. Reach out to neiiifellowship@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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Welcome, dear Impact Fellows! This playbook will help you navigate our time together & give you access to all relevant links. Reach out to neiiifellowship@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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The Impact Fellowship equips each cohort of 40-50 practitioners with the skills & knowledge to enter the world of impact investing & sustainable finance. Our learning journey will introduce you to the sector’s themes, approaches, & players through curated educational sessions, workshops, & small-group discussions. You will gain insights into the financial system, explore your relationship to money, as well as, find several entrance points into the world of impact investing.
We see the Fellowship as a guided, peer-based, immersion, over 4 months with loads of live sessions, and access to many different resources and tools. We’ll co-create the program together based on your interests. There will be opportunities for knowledge & skill sessions, self-directed study, networking, and opportunities to connect to the impact industry. We have many partners involved to show you how they approach sustainability, and we’re putting a lot of work into making this Fellowship a success.
Different elements will form the Fellowship:
Fellows learn with us through active participation in educational sessions, workshops, & small-group discussions. We will create Community Calls, Skills Sessions, and further learning opportunities like on-demand resources or partner opportunities. You’ll be invited to help create these so your involvement is important to get the most out of the program. Please put the time into helping co-create the kind of content you’d like to see and learn about. There is so much you could dive into in this space and we all have different focus points. A mentor once told me, learning about sustainable finance and impact investing is like drinking from a firehose so get ready to swim. We’ll swim together!
There will be interactive webinars on all Thursdays in September & October that will take you on a journey through the world of impact investing & sustainable finance. This will be an opportunity for you to get in touch with your peers, make sense of your learnings and meet some of our core partnering organizations. The weekly sessions will be hosted by NEIII or one of our partners.
Dates: Thursdays 6 pm UTC+2 (CEST) throughout September & October
Purpose: These calls are for you to think deeply and to closely connect together. It’ll be a space for exchange and disucssion. Together we’ll explore how we create impact, the role of money & investing, and systems change. We’re excited to host you as we think of impact investing at different levels from the systemic, to organizational, to personal.
Staying Up to Date & In the Loop
The module overviews will be another helpful place to tag along & find what you need, incl. all resources. (see right below!)
Our module overviews include long lists of resources that accompany you throughout the different modules. This might well overwhelm you in the first place - and we decided to share it with you, anyways & invite you to take what you need, in bite-sized bits. It was important for us to keep as many of these resources as possible free of charge. An alternative way of getting access to the books we include in our list would, for example, be to order them at your public library.
Modules will be released just before the start of each module.
Still hungry for more connections & learning opportunities? Check out our extensive list of partners in the field, find life events & on-demand deep dives available to you. NEIII has been building a great network of partners in the field and many of them have particular offers that might be interesting for you (some of them even with a reduced fee).
The Fellowship gives access to additional benefits:
Access to educational sessions, workshops, & small-group discussions
Get accepted into private networking communities we know of
Find career development & learning support
Support from us to join partner programs and other challenges and conferences on the topic
Mentorship opportunities & Leadership development
Get to know your cohort & find all the ways to stay connected here.
All your questions answered! Share them with us as we move through the fellowship.
Your commitments & responsibilities or: how to get a certificate
The Fellowship has been building up a high reputation in the field and might well open some doors for you in the future. In order to further build this reputation, we expect a certain level of commitment from you concerning both how you participate and what you participate in. In general, communication is our most important value, so just reach out if you can’t commit to some of the following, and we will find a solution together.
Fellowship agreement:
Actively participate in the Fellowship program
Show up to online workshops and engage with presenters and participants
Commit 8–10 hours per month, especially in Sep and Oct, during our live weekly community calls on Thursdays and view the recordings when unavailable.
Have stable internet access, call in from a quiet place, and join with video whenever possible
Have an intermediate level of English, as all sessions will be in this language.
Bring your curiosity and desire to learn & engage with the content
Complete the onboarding survey, a mid-point review survey, and a closing survey.
How we interact
Intentional listening & sharing: listen closely, be conscious of time
Chatham House Rule: share your learnings, but not the names
Respect for others’ opinions and their boundaries
Lean in to learn - actively participate
Take care of yourself & each other - host yourselves
What we expect from you
Participate in a minimum of 6 of 8 interactive sessions in Sep & Oct. Please contact us if that is going to be a problem for your schedule or if anything changes.
Join a group for the Peer Action November & present your learnings
Have a look into the recommended resources
Fill in our mid-term & closing feedback form
To find the registration links, recordings, and event list of all upcoming events check out the Fall events overview ! We’ll keep this updated and it’ll be the place you can always go back to for what has happened or what is coming up.
To stay up to date with all possible Fellowship events, we invite you to to your calendar. It will always have the events we have signed up for and that you can access from either ourselves, our partners, or other opportunities. We will additionally invite you to all obligatory sessions using the email you used in the registration process. Here's an in case you're getting confused
Another way of staying in the loop is through our Google Drive. Here you can find all documents that are linked in this playbook, and further helpful material about the fellowship.
