By Megan SaylesAFRO Enterprise Writermsayles@afro.com
CLLCTIVLY, a Baltimore-based social change group, is working in partnership with the Heart for Social Affect Technique (CSIS) on the College of Pennsylvania to launch a brand new fellowship program. The Drs. Elmer and Joanne Martin Social Affect Fellowship is designed to arm social entrepreneurs with the instruments and confidence they should create social change in Baltimore.
The primary cohort will settle for twelve social entrepreneurs who hail from Allure Metropolis. Purposes are due by Aug. 30, and chosen entrepreneurs will likely be chosen by Sep. 20.
“This program not solely honors the unbelievable legacy of Dr. Elmer and Joanne Martin but additionally invests in the way forward for Baltimore by equipping social entrepreneurs with the sources they should lead transformative change,” stated Jamye Wooten, founding father of CLLCTIVLY, in a press release to the AFRO. “Dr. Yanique Redwood, CLLCTIVLY’s scholar-practitioner in residence, is supporting the event of the fellowship and is infusing liberatory management rules into the design of this system. We stay up for seeing the modern options and management that can emerge from this cohort.”
The brand new fellowship will run from October 2024 to March 2025. Every cohort member will likely be given $2,000 per 30 days to assist them whereas they take part in this system. The fellowship will cowl matters, together with social affect technique, enterprise fashions for social enterprises and the function of digital media in social motion. Individuals will even create a capstone undertaking to current to an viewers of potential supporters on the program’s finish.
With a view to be thought-about for the fellowship, social entrepreneurs should lead an initiative, group or undertaking engineered to plot options for systemic social points and challenges. They need to even have a method to finance their work past acquiring grant funding and presents.
“I’m so proud and excited that the Heart for Social Affect Technique will assist this necessary and historic initiative,” stated Ariel Schwartz, managing director of the middle, in a press release to the AFRO. “I’m thrilled to be working with CLLCTIVLY to offer instruments, sources and a studying and engagement platform for the fellows to domesticate their social ventures and fill their very own cups.”
Drs. Elmer and Joanne Martin began The Nationwide Nice Blacks in Wax Museum with 4 wax figures bought in 1980. By 1983 they couple had a storefront museum in Baltimore, working the primary African-American historical past wax museum within the nation collectively as a dynamic husband and spouse duo. At this time, the Baltimore-based establishment maintains practically 150 figures of distinguished African People who’ve made their mark in time.
The Martins established the museum to gasoline curiosity in Black historical past, whereas additionally supporting group organizations and advancing financial growth within the East North Avenue hall.
