Financial activists leveraging capital as a tool for positive change.
We will begin accepting applications for the 2024-2025 program in early 2024. Please check back for more information.
The nine-month fellowship consists of three in-person immersions, online sessions, one-on-one advisor calls, peer coaching, online resources, and creative capital projects.
The program is grounded in an understanding of the current extractive economic system and the ways financial and social capital can be used to effect systemic change. JEI fellows learn how to activate the positive potential of capital from experts in integrated capital, social change movements, impact investing, community wealth building, funder organizing, and transformational leadership.
What Fellows Will Gain
We focus on three core areas of learning:
- the inner work that equips leaders to do their best work in the world
- the practical work of activating financial and social capital effectively
- the collective work to create models and systems that solve social and environmental problems
Overview and Dates
The Just Economy Institute fellowship dates are October through June.
In-person gatherings (for the 2023-24 cohort):
- Immersion 1: October 23-27, 2023
- Immersion 2: March 11-15, 2024
- Immersion 3: June 24-28, 2024
All three immersions will be hosted at Paicines Ranch in Paicines, CA.
Online classes:
Ten will be offered between the immersions, featuring leading practitioners in the field.
Cost
Sliding scale, from $10,000 to $40,000.
The true cost of the program is $25,000 per fellow, which covers tuition, faculty, advisors, materials, webinars, resources, and on-site lodging and meals. For those who can afford to pay more, we ask you to consider this, as it will ensure that we continue to make JEI available to as many financial activists as possible.
Our decision to use a sliding scale fee structure is linked to the purpose of the Institute: to catalyze the flow of money to support healthy, regenerative economies in all communities. The suggested sliding scale is:
| $10k fee: | Assets of up to $2M |
| $15k fee: | Assets over $2M and up to $20M |
| $20K fee: | Assets over $20M and up to $50M |
| $30K fee: | Assets over $50M and up to $100M |
| $40K fee: | Assets over $100M |
Qualifications
The work of capital activation requires creative, intelligent, and passionate leaders. JEI fellows possess self-knowledge as well as the skills needed to navigate power, conflict, and possibility.
We are seeking fellows who have:
- a deep commitment to effect positive change and create a just economy
- the ability to influence the flow of financial and social capital
- a clear desire to learn and grow, both personally and professionally
- strong emotional intelligence
Why Now?
A growing community of financial activists, donors and investors is following a calling for connection and justice. They want to help end the extractive practices that have caused immense human suffering and severely damaged the natural world. And they’re working to advance a new form of activism, one in which financial and social capital are used as powerful tools to effect positive change.
A new clarity is emerging, one that recognizes that the stewardship of great sums of money includes a duty to the greater whole. This clarity has engendered an entirely new form of activism, one in which financial and social capital are used as powerful tools to create a just and resilient economy.
Positive change happens when groups with innovative solutions have the resources and connections to make those solutions happen. We’ve seen visionary wealth holders pioneer better models inspired by this conviction. These models need to be shared and adopted. When they are, we will see hundreds of billions of dollars shift to regenerative uses.
Application Process
If you applied for the 2023-2024 program, you will receive an update on the status of your application in late May. We’ll conduct interviews with selected candidates in June, and we’ll confirm the next cohort in early July.
