The Gratitude Network Fellowship Program is a free 1 year program for non-profit leaders and their organizations anywhere around the world. The program builds leaders’ confidence and capabilities and provides tools and processes for expanding the organization’s impact.
Their organization was conceived on the eve of a milestone birthday. Their Founder and Executive Director, Randy Haykin, had just turned age 50. He had been a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and he wanted to shift his career to charitable giving and making more impact on the lives of marginalized populations. Randy created his own “Gratitude 365” experiment, and challenged himself to blog/post one thing he was grateful for daily during an entire year.
Randy soon realized that he could turn gratitude into action. He approached his network of talented colleagues, friends, and neighbors in the Bay Area and asked them to band together to impact social causes. Before long, the Gratitude Network was born.
Gratitude Fellows have increased leadership confidence and lead more effectively. They have more aligned teams ready to execute a multi-year strategic plan to take the organization to their next level – ultimately increasing the children and youth they impact.
Each year, Gratitude Network conducts a global search for established, social impact leaders who demonstrate a proven organization model serving children and youth who are committed to leadership growth and ready to take their organization to the next level. From over 1,000 applicants annually, we select around 30 to participate in our program. The support Social impact leaders and their nonprofit, growth stage organizations serving under-resourced, under-represented, and/or underserved children and youth with proven, community-based solutions in education, healthcare, and safety around the world. Gratitude Fellows are committed and ready to expand their organization’s impact through leadership development and growth, organization capacity building, and thoughtful strategic planning.
Benefits
For Leader
- Increased Leadership Confidence
- Leads team more effectively
- Knows leadership strengths and opportunities
For Organization
- Aligned leadership team
- Clear expansion vision relevant to their community
- Multi-year strategic plan for executing the vision
- Scale
Impact For Beneficiaries
- Change in Impact Trajectory
- Increase in Children and Youth Impacted
Eligibilities
The Gratitude Network’s Fellowship Program is for both the organization’s leader and organization’s development. Applicants and the organization must meet the below eligibility requirements.
Organization
- Legally registered non-profit, charity, NGO organization
- At least two years old
- Must have at least two full-time employees (including the applicant)
- Beneficiaries must primarily be children/youth and served in one of the following categories: Education, Health and Well-being, Children’s Rights
- Ready to scale and expand the impact of the organization.
Applicant/Leader
- Has strategic decision making power for the organization
- Committed full-time to the organization
- Ready and interested to lead the organization through scaling and expanding impact
- Adhere to the time commitments and schedule of the Gratitude Network Fellowship Program
Eligible Regions: Open for all.
Application Process
Apply through the Apply Now link.
Application Deadline: March 5, 2023
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