Volunteer Guide
We are supported by a group of volunteers to make the fellowship run smoothly. Here's the guide for our volunteers to help them navigate their commitments.
Hello, dear Fellowship Volunteers,
We’re excited to welcome you as part of our wider team & have you with us on this journey. As a volunteer, you are expected to take over specific roles, from writing reflections to hosting some of our guests. This document aims to help you navigate & it offers you an overview of the Volunteers & Roles.
What are the roles of a volunteer?
There are some tasks we expect all of you to be able to help out with, and there are other tasks that we can divide as a group.
Roles & tasks for all:
Active participation: We expect you to join as many sessions as possible & be proactive in the discussions & filling in our surveys
Module reflections: After every module, we invite you to write a short reflection about your experience & learnings, which will be shared on our social media channels (½-1 page max)
M1: Current System & Why Changing It Matters
M2: Understanding Impact Investing & Emerging Alternatives
M3: Rooting Your Impact on a Personal & Community Level
M4: Peer Practice - Small Group Work
All of your reflections can be written in this document with some guiding questions.
Closing reflection: After closing the fellowship, it would be great to have your perspective on the whole experience of the fellowship. (1-2 pages)
Roles to distribute:
Depending on your monetary contribution and context, we’d love you to step up a little more. We might send a request to the whole group or reach out to you individually. Roles we need support with include:
Writing notes on the workshops you join: Please coordinate amongst each other who will write notes in the sessions. Here, we will take continuous notes.
Hosting guests in our skill sessions: In addition to our weekly calls, we will have a number of partners join us to host what we call skill sessions. This will be your chance to host the group, open the Zoom room, introduce the speaker, and make sure that everything is in place regarding tech hosting. Sign up to host our guests here.
Hosting your own workshop as a skill session: Do you have something to contribute, from experience in the field to complementary competencies your fellow fellows should know about? Put yourself on this list and reach out to us with your proposal so we can sharpen it and find a date.
Design tasks on Canva: Are you skilled at creating posts and graphic design? We might need some help creating tailored posts for all fellows.
Operational/Organizational tasks: This may include things like unifying file formats or similar.
Closing report & feedback: After closing the fellowship, it would be amazing to publish a little report with the voices of the fellows. We’d love some of you to compile this feedback & create a report (4-5 pages).
What else? We’d love to hear about your strengths & ideas regarding how you could contribute best.
We'll losely keep track of who's doing what so we have a way to understand the different kind of contributions.
How do we work as a team?
Once your participant contribution is settled & you agree to be a volunteer, you will be part of our wider team. As a group of volunteers, we will have an initial meeting before the program starts to talk about roles & responsibilities & get to know each other. After that, we will have short monthly calls to check in with each other & see if anyone needs support with their commitments. We count on you to live up to your commitments in a self-directed way. This means stepping up and helping out however you can. This is our WhatAapp group for the volunteers.
Who’s part of the team?
Stephen Snider - Project coordination
Stephen is the head, heart & hands of the fellowship. He takes care of the overall organization & takes a lead in the design of the program. He’ll help make sure the program provides you with lots of value.
Sophie Charrois - Programmatic support
Sophie supports the fellowship with her expertise in facilitation & creative process design for societal transformation. She will also take care of hosting the volunteers this year.
Sandrine Skellie
I want to explore the multi dimensionality of our world as we made it today, so we can connect these islands of coherence. I come from varied backgrounds : arts, anthropology, journalism, business management and education.
I am a rural development professional with 20+ years of experience in public policy, sustainable agriculture, farmer producer organizations and community empowerment. Currently, I'm a Co-Founder at Aveti Learning, focusing on digital solutions for underserved communities.
Jassica has experience in global health and non-profit work, focusing on monitoring & evaluation, and programme management. She’s eager to explore how impact investing can reduce dependence on philanthropy and support communities to create sustainable solutions to global health challenges.
Irtaza Haider is a Venture Fellow at OMX Ventures and is currently pursuing his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management. He previously worked in several healthcare firms as an early employee and growth leader. Irtaza is passionate about healthcare, finance and the intersection of these fields with impact and sustainability
I am a project manager at ABC in Paris, specializing in training and partnership development. I am participating in the fellowship in order to expand my knowledge in impact investment and to build a sustainable financial ecosystem that empowers communities and drives long-term, ethical investments.
Abdulbaki Ahmad I am currently serving as a Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Lagos State in Nigeria where I am directly involved in shaping policies impacting over 20 million residents of Lagos. Prior to that, I was serving as the Renewable Energy and Technical Services Officer at Center for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change (CREACC-NG) as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Greeniilde, a green startup committed to providing sustainable energy solutions in Nigeria.
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