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Summit: The program in each region starts with an in-person summit, convening 25 participants for an intensive 5 days in a beautiful location in nature. the gathering is designed to forge deep connections, foster wellbeing, and enable peer learning and meaningful collaborations.
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Capacity Building & Collaborative Funding: Participants get access to a range of offerings and platforms by partners, including everything from learning exchange grants to fundraising trainings and strategic support from advisors and mentors.
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Community: Finally, everyone becomes a lifelong member of the global ChangemakerXchange community, including access to resources and regular opportunities to connect, learn and co-create.
About ChangemakerXchange
We envision a world where everyone is part of inclusive communities in which people connect deeply and co-create positive action to serve the wellbeing of people and planet.
We’re on a mission to provide safe, supportive, fun, and empowering spaces for changemakers. We foster profound and lasting connections, nurture wellbeing, and enable peer-learning and meaningful collaborations so that changemakers may create, sustain and scale positive change.
Through the Changemaker Xchange Community we reach and work directly with 1000 changemakers across 130 countries. New members join via our flagship summits, a unique experience of connecting, co-learning and collaboration with other social innovators from around the world. This is followed by ongoing, and life-long, community engagement, capacity building and support for their work.
Benefits
- Participants are asked to cover their own transportation costs to Rwanda (for the Sub-Saharan Africa summit) and to Buenos Aires, Argentina (for the Latin America Summit).
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ChangemakerXchange will cover ALL OTHER COSTS associated with the summit and program, such as: accommodation, catering, local transportation, room hire, equipment & material, COVID-19 rapid tests, FFP2 masks, facilitation & hosting compensation, program manager compensation, carbon emissions offsetting derived from the local hosting, post-summit capacity-building program and post-summit community engagement activities.
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ChangemakerXchange always strive to make their summits accessible and inclusive so if your circumstances do not allow you to afford the trip to the summit, state so in the application and confirmation form. They will evaluate the possibility of offering you a partial or full stipend to ensure you can join the summit.
Requirements
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Open to changemakers aged 18-35 from Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa with solutions to tackle the planetary crisis.
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The sub-Saharan African summit will be hosted in English, with French translation if required. You can apply for the summit in English or French.
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The Latin American summit will be hosted in Spanish. The team onsite will also speak English and Portuguese, to support any non-native speakers, but participants will need a strong level of Spanish to fully take part. Applications can be filled out in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Criteria
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Values: Applicants for a ChangemakerXchange summit should demonstrate an alignment with the CXC values.
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Character: Applicants should show an entrepreneurial and creative mindset.
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Motivation: Applicants should show motivation to co-create and collaborate.
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Diversity: Diversity is also a critical criterion. The planetary crisis disproportionately affects society’s most at-risk individuals and regions. As such, ChangemakerXchange are putting a strong emphasis on curating cohorts that are diverse in terms of demographics and types of initiatives. Applicants from marginalized contexts and those with intersectional initiatives are a great fit for this program and encouraged to apply!
How to Apply
Application Deadline
Conclusion
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