The following represent the Fellowship opportunities for 2026-2027. They are placed under the major categories of focus of the Insititue.

Economics

Fellowship #FEc1: The Creation of the Mentoring Industry in the United States

• In communities where mentors are needed the most, young children look up to the individuals who have preceded them, who know firsthand the challenges they face, and for whom they feel the affection and admiration that young children often feel for the older kids in the neighborhood or community. This is at the heart of the Fellowship.

• Individuals aged 15 to 30 who have been born and raised in communities challenged by poverty often face challenges that have made it difficult for them to build careers in the workforce or to find satisfying employment that will allow them to obtain enduring economic stability or generational wealth.

• The cycles of poverty, academic underperformance, youth violence, and the lack of career-building are devastating for children, and yet it continues generation after generation in urban, rural, and now suburban neighborhoods across the United States.

• It is time to address each of these issues in an innovative and logical manner and elevate mentorship from a volunteer opportunity to an industry on par with teaching.

• This fellowship focuses on the creation of the mentoring industry, and by the end of the fellowship, provides not only the blueprint for it, but the first several steps will have been taken to add a new industry to the American economy.

• The mentoring industry ensures full-time jobs and careers for older youth and young adults. It allows them to be the mentors they needed, and it gives young children the role models they need.

Internship #FEc2: Replacing the U.S. Poverty Industrial Complex

• Sixty years is well past time see if a system works or not, and, if not, to change it for the better. The War on Poverty was declared in 1964. Nine years later, in 1973, with many welfare programs in place and billions spent on them, one out of every six Americans needed assistance to get by. Today, with substnatially mroe programs in place and hte continuance of msot of the original programs - and with more than 75 trillion dollars spent - one out of every four Americans needed assistance to get by. Tweaking the system is not the answer. Replacing it is.

• After sixty years, it is time to eradicate not just poverty, but the poverty industrial complex that has grown in teh public and private sectors. The economic instaibility of milloins has been used to creat government and nonprofit sectors that provide exorbitent salaries and long careers - and even summer homes - for people who have not been able to solve the problem they signed up to solve. And if solving poverty is not the aim of anyone’s efforts who is working on poverty, they don’t deserve to be paid to work on it.

• The welfare system in the United States has failed; the proof is in cities, towns, counties, and states across the country.

• This fellowship not only defines what the poverty industrial complex is; it completes a blueprint for replacing it community-centered efforts that involve individuals and organizations in every sector. By the end of the Fellowship, this new approach will be in motion.

• The Fellowship is not a thesis on what a plan looks like or even a strategy to replace the current welfare system; it includes the first steps and ensures subsequent steps are achored in evidence-based, community-centric that does not rely on governmetn or charitable nonprofits to do what peopel in the community can mroe effectively do.

Fellowship #FS1: Exploring the dimensions in our world

• The debate in string theory is whether or not there are 10 dimensions, 11 dimensions, or 26 dimensions.

• There’s also another debate in science: Is string theory a valid science or a predictive one?

• If it is the former, then where are its proponents wrong? If it is the latter, just what can we learn about our planet and beyond, as well as about our potential?

• The result of this Fellowship is a substantive addition to human knowledge and a blueprint for how string theroy can impact the human condition.

• The Fellow will develop and implement a strategy to educate the general public on the answers to the above as well the positing of new questions that can be answered with descriptive and predictive elements.

Fellowship #FS2: Exploring the dimensions in our worl

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