Henry Arnhold Fellowship Application 2026
Mulago finds and funds scalable solutions to big problems. The Henry Arnhold Fellowship is a one-year program for entrepreneurial leaders—typically founders, but always the CEO/Executive Director-equivalent—with climate, conservation, and environment solutions that could achieve exponential impact. The Fellowship is focused on design for impact and strategy for scale, along with critical things like effective communication of your idea. It consists of an intensive week-long retreat, structured work over an interim year, and another week-long retreat at the end. It comes with a $100,000 unrestricted up-front grant and consideration for eventual Mulago portfolio funding.
We are interested in both for-profit and non-profit ideas. We have a bias toward ideas that intertwine the well-being of people and their environment. Here are just a few of the founders who have gone through the Henry program:
- Jagdeesh Rao: Foundations of Ecological Sustainability
- Crystal Davis: Global Forest Watch
- Krutika Ravishankar: Farmers For Forests
- Al Harris: Blue Ventures
- Adam Miller: Planet Indonesia
- Joao Campos-Silva: Instituto Juru
- Shantanu Agarwal: Mati Carbon
- Fred Nelson: Maliasili
Until now, we have found and recruited Henry Fellows exclusively via a nomination network. There has been a growing demand for an open application process, and we’ve decided to launch one. We want to make sure that we don’t miss any great ideas, but we don’t want to waste founders’ precious time and effort. To that end, our initial application is brief—we intend for it to take no longer than an hour or two. Founders should have already thought a lot about the stuff we ask. If not, then it’s worth the effort to think it through. We won’t be the only ones asking.
Before you spend your valuable time filling this out, all our fellows must:
- Be the most senior decision maker (i.e. CEO or Executive Director). We’re focused on founders.
- Be full time (i.e. commit 30+ hours per week to the organization)
- Have an organization already registered or in the process of being registered as one of the following structures:
- Independent nonprofit, including US 501(c)(3) and/or its non-US equivalent.
- For-profit entity that is mission-driven, including C corporation, B corporation, or a hybrid organization.
- Fiscally sponsored organization with a plan to spin out in the near future.
- Be focused on a solution that can drive exponential impact over time.
If that’s not you yet, save your time and come back when it is.
If that’s you, fill out the rest of the form below. You’ll be tempted to polish through multiple drafts. Given what we’re looking for, less is better. Mostly we’re trying to get a good sense of your idea—if you do polish one thing, it should be that. We’re looking for clear thinking, not literary masterpieces. We don’t care if you use AI—just get your idea across. We are delighted to hear about early-stage ideas. Don’t feel the need to exaggerate what you’ve done so far.
To make it easier, you can see some example answers and a gdoc version of the form at this link that you can make a copy of.
You will hear from us one way or the other by late October—in many cases sooner.
Link: https://airtable.com/appxaP7LMbVMxgljP/pagIfhbnc0JcQ0UC0/form
