2025 FORGE Fellowship

The FORGE Fellowship is a fully subsidized six-month engagement with the FORGE team with $500 stipend, bookmarked with 15 points of contact designed to help makers build the skills, systems, plans, and practices that will carry you through your life’s work as a creator.

FORGE welcomes individual makers and small teams (of no more than three) at any point in your journey to spend six months (May through October) defining, pursuing, and achieving your vision of success. They prioritize process over project deadlines, and people over productivity. They invite folks from all backgrounds, lived experiences, and cultures of expression to join in functional friction to re-envision the givens, guidelines, and glee of creative work.

This opportunity is focused on you as a maker, not on a specific project. They’re much more interested in how you make anything than what you’re currently creating. You do not need a project to apply; you and your process are the creations they are most interested in!

You bring the spark. They light the FORGE.

HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A FORGE FELLOWSHIP :

Their process offers accomplices for accountability, actionable tools to create a solid foundation for the work, expertise from our combined 25 years of experience, and plenty of wisdom from inspiring changemakers around the world.

They pair bi-monthly touchpoints (like consultations and skill-building opportunities) with access to daily support systems (like a dedicated online hub and FORGE’s extensive suite of templates) to create a space for curiosity, commiseration, and celebration. Check out the working calendar below for more detail:

May 2025
+ Orientation/Show-and-Tell/Mini Language Masterclass (3 hrs)
+ 1st Consultation with FORGE + your Buddy (closed, for just the two of you) (90 min)
+ Fast Fuel | May 4th + 29th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

• Floating 60 min Consultation (Claim this anytime during your Fellowship)
• $500 per Fellow to use on your creative process in any way you see fit

June 2025
+ Collab-a-thon (3 hrs)
+ Fast Fuel | June 8th | 11am - 6pm Eastern

July 2025
+ 2nd Consultation with FORGE + your Buddy (open, for your cohort to attend and witness) (90 min)
+ Fast Fuel | July 13th + 24th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

August 2025
+ Curated Conversations with Experts + Leaders (3 hrs)
+ Fast Fuel | August 10th + 28th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

September 2025
+ 3rd Consultation with FORGE + your Buddy (Open, for your cohort to attend and witness) (90 min)
+ Fast Fuel | September 14th + 25th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

October 2025
+ Masterclass (3 hrs)
+ Fast Fuel | October 5th + 23rd (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern
+ Closing Reflection (3 hrs)

Requirements

Be available and dedicated to showing up for your own creative process from May 1st - Oct 31st, 2024 on Zoom. You will be required to attend ALL planned events, however, FORGE builds the schedule collectively once the cohort is selected.

Be eager to show up as your whole self and be generous and curious in community.

Application Instructions