Creative Catalyst Fellowship: Nurturing Visionary Change-Makers
Innovate, Inspire, Impact: USAID’s Creative Catalyst Fellowship
The Creative Catalyst Fellowship, funded by USAID, empowers early-stage visionaries in the creative sector with the skills, mentorship, and resources needed to create positive social and environmental change. Through an immersive experience, fellows blend creative practices with entrepreneurial strategies to amplify their impact and build sustainable careers. The fellowship fosters a community of change-makers dedicated to addressing critical challenges in their communities.
What does it take to be a fellow?
Here's what we look for in creatives'
Eligibility Criteria
We at CCF are looking for dynamic, intuitive, altruistically driven creatives with a bias to action. Creatives from all walks of life and all disciplines are welcome - we encourage out of the box approaches and methods your creative output to drive change.
Interested applicants must pay attention to the yearly fellowship cohort theme: For example, with our 2024 cohort's thematic area being 'Climate Positive', we've invited creatives with a passion for regeneration and the environment to explore what it means to be climate positive, challenging the extractive system we currently live in through their consciously created final projects.
About the fellowship
What does our Fellowship offer?
This fellowship includes:
A 14 day residency, taking place out of Colombo during the last 2 weeks of June 2024
This will be followed by a collaborative mentoring sessions for 6 months, both virtually and in a dedicated studio space within Colombo, from July to December 2024
Production grant on a pre approved creative project to be completed during the fellowship
A final exhibition in early December to showcase the final creative projects