Tribe 12 Fellowship

ABout the Fellowship

The Fellowship was Tribe 12's signature offering from 2011-2025. The program has been restructured into a Mentorship Program, focused on professional development of young adults in their 20s and 30s. Please read below to learn more about the Fellowship program from 2011-2025, and check out our alumni and success stories!

The Program

The Tribe 12 Fellowship is an accelerator for entrepreneurial people in their 20s & 30s in Philadelphia's Jewish community.

Tribe 12 Fellows apply the tangible skills they learn and the network they build to create a capstone project of their own design: a new or existing business, non-profit, community, project or anything in between!

What do all the projects have in common? A "double bottom line", which is a business strategy which uses positive social impact as one measurement of success.

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Jared as an alum supporting a new Tribe 12 Fellow alongside Tribe 12 Fellowship board member Matt Handel

The Curriculum

Our curriculum is based on the Stanford d.school’s Design Thinking Methodology, a human-centered approach to innovation used by hundreds of companies worldwide.

Our Fellows are immersed in rich, experiential business workshops taught by experts which teach key entrepreneurial skills such as prototyping, public speaking, financials, goal setting, and environmental scanning.

Tribe 12 enhances the robust business curriculum by incorporating key Jewish principles relating to self-discovery, philanthropy, and emotional intelligence.

The Experience

Our alumni tell us over and over again: the power is in the network. Fellows treasure the opportunity to build something of their own while benefitting from the collective energy and support of a community.

The Fellowship is a cohort experience where Fellows learn alongside their peers and form lifelong friendships and business relationships.

Each Fellow is matched with two mentors: a coach, who is a successful professional in a related field; and a peer, who is a Tribe 12 Fellowship alumnus. Fellows also have access to a network of subject matter experts and our 150+ alumni who span every industry and area of expertise.

The Impact

Our Fellows emerge with concrete takeaways — a toolkit of skills, an elevator pitch, a business plan, a public showcase of their project — as well as an enduring network in Philadelphia and in the greater Jewish community to support them as they continue to grow as people and as entrepreneurs.

The Fellow's socially responsible businesses go on to impact thousands of people locally and around the world.

I am so grateful for the experience of these past few months -- the concrete skills that have helped me improve and begin to expand my business, the spiritual intentions and rituals that bonded us in our learning, the Jewish values that bring Torah into the administrative side of running a business. The personal connections that have grown out of Tribe 12 -- and I know it’s just the beginning! -- are so rich and fulfilling. I can’t say enough good things about this cohort. I’m excited to see all our ventures blossom and to know we’re here for one another when things are hard.