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Wellbeing (Fund)
Support social entrepreneurs and executives of value-based organizations towards a culture that is more caring and supportive of personal development.
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What is it about?
The Fund's purpose is to promote and support inner work for social entrepreneurs and executives of value-based organisations, and to help shift the culture in the field of social change to one that is more caring and supportive of personal development.
The Fund will specifically support the implementation and development of the Wellbeing project, co-created by individual social entrepreneurs, Ashoka, the Esalen Institute, the Fetzer Institute, and the Synergos Institute.
It will focus its efforts on the following four pillars:
- Inner Development Programme: support experienced social entrepreneurs in finding and nurturing a deeper sense of wellbeing within themselves through a personally supportive programme.
- Research: conduct a research evaluation that explores the effect of inner work, and connections between inner work and the quality of social change.
- Learning Partner Programme: convene a ‘learning partner’ community of global social sector leaders who will learn together from the research and what, as a result, may be done at a sector level.
- Storytelling: collect and broadly share stories from social entrepreneurs about the impact of inner work on their personal and professional lives.