Congratulations on launching this. Many more of these efforts are needed.
Having run a cohort-based nonprofit accelerator for the past two years, I can tell you that it is very hard to attract participants ready to launch in sync. Especially if you are charging more than a nominal fee. Second, you need to offer orgs very deep experience in all types of earned, contributed, and invested revenue. You are an organizational specialist with serious chops, but you don't appear to present the revenue generation experience across earned, contributed and impact capital domains - I can be wrong, but this capability doesn't come through, and unless you have turn-key guidance for leaders, their programs will struggle for funding. Don't mean to disparage your very well meaning effort but this does appear to be a gap. I encourage you to read "Scaling Altruism" and also look at www.altruistaccelerator.org. If this interests you, I would welcome hearing from you.
Again, fantastic that you have the vision and the ambition to launch a nonprofit accelerator - but beware of the inherent challenges and limitation of a cohort model and also the depth of knowledge needed, especially around finance, impact analytics, governance, etc.
In any event, best of luck. Hope this is helpful perspective.
Congratulations on launching this. Many more of these efforts are needed.
Having run a cohort-based nonprofit accelerator for the past two years, I can tell you that it is very hard to attract participants ready to launch in sync. Especially if you are charging more than a nominal fee. Second, you need to offer orgs very deep experience in all types of earned, contributed, and invested revenue. You are an organizational specialist with serious chops, but you don't appear to present the revenue generation experience across earned, contributed and impact capital domains - I can be wrong, but this capability doesn't come through, and unless you have turn-key guidance for leaders, their programs will struggle for funding. Don't mean to disparage your very well meaning effort but this does appear to be a gap. I encourage you to read "Scaling Altruism" and also look at www.altruistaccelerator.org. If this interests you, I would welcome hearing from you.
Again, fantastic that you have the vision and the ambition to launch a nonprofit accelerator - but beware of the inherent challenges and limitation of a cohort model and also the depth of knowledge needed, especially around finance, impact analytics, governance, etc.
In any event, best of luck. Hope this is helpful perspective.