Applications Invited for Henry Arnhold Fellowship 2026

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About the Organization

Mulago is a private foundation designed and built to carry on the life work of Rainer Arnhold.

Rainer's passion was the prospect of a better life for children in poverty, and so the Foundation's work is focused on solutions that meet the basic needs of the poorest families. After Rainer's untimely death in 1993, his brother Henry Arnhold established the Foundation in its current form.

Our obsession is impact; we provide unrestricted money to organizations that have a scalable solution and a demonstrable ability to deliver. Our Fellows programs are built to support social entrepreneurs, and our portfolio is a mix of start-ups and organizations further along the curve to scale. We're agnostic as to whether those organizations are for-or-non-profit – what we care about is which structure offers the best route to impact at scale. We continue to fund organizations as long as they show real progress toward lasting change at scale.

The Foundation has a big mandate and a small staff, so we do not accept proposals. We tap a deep network to find the organizations that are a good fit. Given our very specific funding criteria, that has proven the most efficient process for all concerned. Really.

About the Grant

Through our Henry Arnhold Fellowship we find leaders with promising conservation and climate solutions and help them to design and deliver them at scale.

We’re impact and scale-obsessed. Each year we select 8-10 leaders and help them (1) design high-impact scalable solutions and strategies for better, faster, bigger outcomes; (2) build the organizations to deliver them at scale; and (3) become part of a growing community of innovators in conservation and climate.

Components of the fellowship:

Design and Strategy: The fellowship is bookended by an intensive week-long workshop to dive in on design for impact and strategy for scale. It’s a rare opportunity to focus completely on new ideas and a systematic way to apply them.

Community and Connections: We bring together a cohort of leaders with big poverty and climate solutions, alongside some great advisors and our team. Fellows join a growing community of fellows at the forefront of climate and conservation work.

Resources and Support: The fellowship comes with an unrestricted $100K grant up front. We coach all our fellows over the year on our design and strategy frameworks. All fellows are considered for longer-term Mulago funding.

 

What We Look For:

We look for innovative leaders with a conservation or climate solution that works and has potential to go big. We look for impact-obsessed people pioneering effective ways to:

• protect nature and ecosystems (forests, rivers, oceans, mountains, grasslands)
• slow down climate change (drop emissions, use energy efficiently, capture carbon) or adapt to the new climate reality.

Their solutions focus on everything from tropical forests in the Amazon Basin to grasslands in Africa to fisheries in the Indian Ocean.

Eligibility

• A solution that can drive exponential impact over time (could be replicated and paid for at big scale) to a big conservation or climate problem.
• An organization up and running — nonprofit or for-profit — even if very small or very early and are full time working on it.
• The most senior role (usually an ED or CEO) at the organization. We're focused on founders.

How to Apply

Recommend a Fellow

Know someone ready to scale their climate or conservation impact? Fill out this quick form, and we’ll invite them to apply. We read all recommendations and link them to any eventual applications.

Deadline: August 7.

Apply to be a Fellow

Leaders can now fill out our application form directly. We don’t want to waste their precious time and effort. The application is brief—should take no longer than an hour or two. Given what we’re looking for, less is probably better. We just want to get a good sense of the idea.

Deadline: August 28.

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