The South Park Commons and The Agency Fund have come together to launch a new Social Impact Fellowship, combining experts in technology and development to solve problems that millions of people face.
Like SPC,invests in big ideas. They inject philanthropic capital into technology-enabled solutions to help people, no matter where they are born, to live with self-determination. Temina Madon, the co-founder of The Agency Fund, comes from a background in development economics research. While big development projects can drive outputs and outcomes, there is a gap in their funding models.
In addition to $65,000 in funding, Fellows will go through an 8 week, virtual program. Learning will take place through forums covering topics such as social psychology, behavioral science, impact evaluation and evidence generation, personalization, building ethical organizations, and more. It seeks to bring tactics commonly deployed in the tech industry and to adapt them for a development context.
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