Program Info

Beacon Capital Fellows Program
(2006-2009)
“Empower outstanding graduating Kellogg School students to experience leadership in non-profit and public organizations through a one-year fellowship.”

Program Overview

As envisioned by Dean Dipak C. Jain, the Kellogg School of Management is in the business of producing socially responsible global leaders. To that end, with the support of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Leventhal and Beacon Capital Partners, the faculty and the student-led Social Impact Club, the Beacon Capital Partners Fellows Program (BCFP) was launched in 2006 to provide new leadership experiences for MBA graduates.

BCFP encouraged graduating Kellogg School students to develop outstanding projects in nonprofit and public organizations through one-year fellowships at selected institutions. Fellows worked closely with senior management, developing unique projects that have generated measurable results to the organization and ultimately to the community. The program benefited both parties: students gained rewarding leadership experience, developing a project with major impact and measurable results to society; while the nonprofit and public organizations benefited from having a valuable resource, an MBA student who has a differentiated set of skills.

Furthermore, Fellows were supported throughout the process by having a mentor who is a high-level leader in the organization and by a Kellogg School faculty adviser that was sponsored by the Social Enterprise at Kellogg program.

The unique aspect of this program was that the salary for the Fellowship was funded by the participating organization and matched by a grant from Beacon Capital Partners.

While the last Beacon Capital Partners Fellows were named in spring 2008, the spirit of the  BCPF will continue through the Carol and Larry Levy Social Entrepreneurship Lab.  The Lab will fund a limited number of Fellowships for Kellogg School graduates who pursue an opportunity with a social entrepreneurial organization immediately following graduation.  For details on this new Fellowship program, click here.