Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program

The Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program is a private fellowship program of the Tory Burch Foundation designed to connect women entrepreneurs with tools, relationships, education, coaching, and advisor access that can help them scale and lead their businesses. The Foundation describes the fellowship as a community of more than 500 women entrepreneurs building intentionally for the future. Program features highlighted for Fellows include a premier peer network, collaborative coaching with experts focused on company-specific challenges, access to decision-makers and advisors, and self-paced educational and development opportunities that can grow with the entrepreneur and her business. The program is structured around business development and leadership support rather than a stated cash award. The supplied official terms for the preceding cycle describe a one-year fellowship providing access to workshops, webinars, consulting and advisory sessions, mentoring activities, networking events, and other programming made available by the Foundation. Examples include webinars on financials, marketing, and partnerships, one-on-one advisory meetings with volunteers from Tory Burch LLC and other experts, participation in the Foundation's online community, mentoring opportunities involving business growth goals, and access to in-person entrepreneurship and leadership development events. Programming opportunities may continue after the one-year fellowship when made available by the Foundation. No award amount, program funding total, grant payment, or required cost share or matching contribution is stated in the supplied current program information. The preceding-cycle terms state that costs, taxes, fees, and expenses associated with program elements are the responsibility of Fellows. Applicants must be women entrepreneurs who own the largest or equally largest stake in a qualifying business and have a significant role in managing that business. For the current cycle, applicants must be at least 21 years old as of November 11, 2026, proficient in English, and legal residents of the United States and its territories. A qualifying company must be for profit, may operate in any industry, must be majority owned and controlled by women at 51 percent or more, must generate at least $75,000 annually with no stated maximum revenue requirement, and must be formed under United States law and operating in the United States. The preceding-cycle terms additionally characterize qualifying companies as early-stage growth businesses and identify nonprofit organizations, idea-stage ventures, and subsidiary businesses as examples of non-qualifying businesses. Current applicants should consult the current Fellowship Rules for the complete eligibility requirements. The current page establishes the application window but the supplied page text does not provide the complete current-cycle application form or its required questions and uploads. The preceding-cycle official terms required applicants to complete an online application through the Tory Burch Foundation program site, limited applications to one per person, email address, and business, and required completion of all requested application data. Those terms also referenced a photo and video as applicable, required a valid email address and acceptance of the program terms, limited videos to two minutes, and required submitted materials to be original or appropriately authorized. Because those detailed terms correspond to the preceding cycle, applicants should verify the current Fellowship Rules and application portal for the exact 2026 requirements before submission. The preceding-cycle review framework states that eligible applications were evaluated on Personal and Company Statements, the Video Introduction, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Reviewers considered factors including whether the business creates positive and lasting impact, what differentiates the business, the problems the entrepreneur is trying to solve, how the business reflects the applicant's passion, the substance and quality of statements and the video introduction, obstacles overcome, and growth opportunities. Reviewers could also consider the composition of the overall Fellows group, including diversity in industry, stage of growth, and geography. These criteria provide useful preparation guidance, but applicants should verify that the current Fellowship Rules retain the same evaluation framework. For the current cycle, applications open September 22, 2026 and close November 11, 2026. The review period is identified as Winter 2026-27, followed by Fellows selection in May 2027. No separate LOI, concept paper, pre-proposal, or other pre-application gating deadline is stated in the current materials supplied. The existence of consecutive application cycles in the supplied official materials supports treating the program as recurring annually for data-entry planning, with the next anticipated cycle projected for September 2027 unless the Foundation publishes a different schedule. No individual program contact name, program email address, or telephone number is provided in the supplied materials. The Foundation is identified in the preceding-cycle terms at 11 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011.

Demonstrate the business's positive and lasting impact, what differentiates it, the problem being solved, the founder's passion, obstacles overcome, and credible growth opportunities. If statements and a video introduction remain part of the current application, make their substance and quality strong and specific.