The WILD Fellowship is the scholarship route into the Leadership for Social Impact Forum, which the WILD Network runs each year. WILD describes itself as a global community of 25,000 leaders working across global development, humanitarian assistance and other purpose-driven fields in 115 countries. The award is a complimentary pass to the online edition of the forum, otherwise priced at USD 595, together with the five months of leadership programming attached to that pass. It is aimed at women at any career stage whose employers are not able to afford the ticket. Everything runs online, so there is no stipend and no travel or accommodation funding. Applications are reviewed as they arrive; WILD announced on 13 April 2026 that all 2026 scholarships had been allocated, and the application form is now closed to new submissions.
Benefits & funding
- A complimentary pass to the 2026 online Leadership for Social Impact Forum; the standard online ticket is priced at USD 595
- Three pre-forum masterclasses in April 2026
- Two days of live programming on 12–13 May 2026, delivered across 25 time zones
- A post-forum implementation workshop on 3 June 2026
- MentorMatch peer mentoring and on-demand session replays from May to August 2026
- An onboarding session to meet the other WILD Fellows
- Membership in a dedicated WhatsApp community
- Invitations to future WILD community events
- No stipend, and no travel or accommodation costs, because the fellowship is delivered entirely online
- Applicants on the waitlist may be offered a partial scholarship rather than a full pass
Eligibility
- Women at any career stage, from early career to senior
- Working in global development, humanitarian assistance or another purpose-driven field
- Employer is not able to afford the cost of a forum ticket
- Available for the WILD Fellow onboarding webinar, held 13 April 2026 from 9 to 10 am US Eastern Time
- Able to commit a minimum of eight hours of online programming during the forum on 12–13 May 2026
- Open to sharing your experience with other change-makers and learning from them
- No nationality, residency, age, degree or years-of-experience requirement is published; the WILD community spans 115 countries
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Application process
- 1Read the scholarship page in full. WILD states that its team does not have the time to respond to direct inquiries and asks applicants to look for answers on its site.
- 2Prepare a CV.
- 3Record a one-minute video that introduces you, where you live and the work you do; describes the societal challenge you are addressing; explains how the forum will help you accelerate your impact; and says what you bring to the forum and the WILD community. Videos longer than one minute invalidate the application.
- 4Submit the CV and the video through the online application form, which takes about 30 minutes.
- 5Applications are assessed on a rolling basis. Once a cycle’s scholarships are allocated, the same form continues as a waitlist for possible partial scholarships.
Program timeline
13 April 2026
WILD Fellow onboarding webinar, 9 to 10 am US Eastern Time; on the same date WILD announced that all 2026 scholarships had been allocated and that the form would continue as a waitlist
three pre-forum masterclasses
April 2026
Leadership for Social Impact Forum, held online across 25 time zones
12–13 May 2026
post-forum implementation workshop
3 June 2026
MentorMatch peer mentoring and on-demand session replays
May to August 2026
Next cycle
no 2027 date is published; the 2026 forum was held in May, with applications open in the preceding weeks