Applications are now open for the Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellowship (unrestricted $100K grant up front)
Closing Date: 28 August 2025
Applications are now open for the Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellowship (unrestricted $100K grant up front)
Overview
The Henry Arnhold Fellowship finds leaders with promising conservation and climate solutions and help them to design and deliver them at scale.
Mulago Foundation is impact and scale-obsessed. Each year Mulago Foundation select 8-10 leaders and help them (1) design high-impact scalable solutions and strategies for better, faster, bigger outcomes; (2) build the organizations to deliver them at scale; and (3) become part of a growing community of innovators in conservation and climate.
Program Details
Here are the components of the Henry Arnhold Fellowship in more detail:
Design and Strategy
The fellowship is bookended by an intensive week-long workshop to dive in on design for impact and strategy for scale. It’s a rare opportunity to focus completely on new ideas and a systematic way to apply them.
Community and Connections
Mulago Foundation bring together a cohort of leaders with big poverty and climate solutions, alongside some great advisors and our team. Fellows join a growing community of fellows at the forefront of climate and conservation work.
Resources and Support
The fellowship comes with an unrestricted $100K grant up front. Mulago Foundation coach all its fellows over the year on its design and strategy frameworks. All fellows are considered for longer-term Mulago funding.
What Mulago Foundation Look For
Mulago look for innovative leaders with a conservation or climate solution that works and has potential to go big. Mulago look for impact-obsessed people pioneering effective ways to:
- protect nature and ecosystems (forests, rivers, oceans, mountains, grasslands)
- slow down climate change (drop emissions, use energy efficiently, capture carbon) or adapt to the new climate reality.
Their solutions focus on everything from tropical forests in the Amazon Basin to grasslands in Africa to fisheries in the Indian Ocean.
Henry Arnhold Fellows have:
- A solution that can drive exponential impact over time (could be replicated and paid for at big scale) to a big conservation or climate problem.
- An organization up and running — nonprofit or for-profit — even if very small or very early and are full time working on it.
- The most senior role (usually an ED or CEO) at the organization. Mulago Foundation is focused on founders.
Design For Impact
Mulago Approach to Design
All Mulago fellows have great ideas. And want to create big change for the better. Mulago design tools take them all the way from a great idea to impact at scale. Scale for us doesn’t simply mean growth, nor is it just a big number. And it isn’t about an organization “scaling;” it’s about scaling the impact you want to see in the world.
Mulago has found that for an organization to get to “scale” and make a big dent in a big problem it has to go through some stages 1) smart R&D to arrive at a scalable model, 2) replication by your own organization to prove scalability, and finally 3) scale via replication by others that creates the exponential growth of impact. The first part of the fellowship focuses on how to turn an idea into a systematic and replicable model. It takes them through a series of steps to get to a detailed impact model, and then serves as the vehicle of an ongoing process of iterative redesign.
The Retreat
The main event is a week-long retreat where fellows have the opportunity to think deeply about their path to create meaningful impact at scale. Mulago bring together founders, experts, experienced doers, and its team. It’s fast-paced, interactive, and fun.
The engagement also helps Fellows work through the organizational and financial models – how to deliver the impact model and how to pay for it. Fellows work directly with Mulago team to incorporate new information, lessons, and ideas into their model.
Fellows get to listen, learn and support each other through:
- Design & scale sessions that build on pre-work
- Iteration on design for impact and strategy for scale
- Honed communications
- Small group topical conversations
- A series of curated one-on-one conversations
They emerge with more clarity on the dream and a roadmap to help get them there.
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