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Social Impact
2019–2020
1
GLG Fellow Organization Bridges to Prosperity
GLG is the world’s
knowledge marketplace.
We connect decision makers who want
the advantage of powerful insight to people
with first-hand experience, so they can act
with the confidence that comes from true
clarity. Our network is the largest in the
world, and we recruit thousands of new
experts every month.
GLG Social Impact brings the power of
our knowledge marketplace to organizations
working to solve society’s most urgent
challenges. Our Fellowship provides many of
the world’s most impactful social innovators
with free access to our platform.
We bring the power of insight
to every great professional decision.
ON THE SOCIAL
COVER: GLG 2019–2020
IMPACT Fellow Organization Frontline 3
Contents 6 14 24
Our Responsibility as Matching Talent with Previous Fellows:
the World’s Knowledge Opportunity and Bringing A Look Back at
Marketplace Diversity to Tech Our Community
A Letter from Our CEO A Nonprofit Steps Up
to Train for the Future
8 16 26
Green Energy Should Be GLG and Our Clients: The GLG Partners Program:
Affordable and Accessible Partners at the Leading Edge of Expanding Our Impact
Community Solar Is Leading Social Innovation
the Way
10 18 28
Revolutionizing Mobile Banking Announcing Our New Class The Last Word:
for Farmers in West Africa of Fellows: The Future of GLG Social
A New Approach to Nine Social Innovators Impact — A Smarter World
Financial Inclusion from Around the World Works Better
12 20
Impact Spotlight: Current Fellows:
Disaster Relief How the 2018–2020 Class
is Using GLG
GLG is committed to environmental leadership
in all of its business activities. It is the policy of
GLG to carry out its activities in a manner that
minimizes environmental impacts, conserves
natural resources, and provides for the effective
stewardship of the environment.
Learn more at glg.it/environmental-policy
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 5
Paul Todd with Austin GLGers, July 2018
Our Responsibility as the
World’s Knowledge Marketplace
At GLG, we believe that our knowledge marketplace can create We’ve seen first-hand how our impact is multiplied by the In these pages, you’ll find the work of our current Fellowship I’m proud of all of our Fellows and our other Social Impact clients
great outcomes not only for our clients, but also for our experts, our outstanding social entrepreneurs we support. class, updates on Fellows from previous years, and a look at how and partners. I’m grateful to my GLG colleagues around the
employees, the communities where we live, and society as a whole. multiple Fellows are tackling the increasingly urgent challenge world who support them every day. And I’m excited to share the
Our GLG Social Impact Fellows are creating real change. Among of disaster relief. You’ll also read about the latest expansion work we do together in these pages.
We have unique assets — and a unique responsibility the many examples included here are Fellows helping farmers in of our work: the GLG Social Impact Partners Program, which
to maximize our impact. West Africa out of poverty through financial innovation, training empowers each of our 2,000+ employees around the world to
low-income New Yorkers to secure high-paying tech jobs, and give a nonprofit of their choice free access to GLG. Finally, we’re
That’s why we’re proud to put GLG to work, free of charge, for expanding access to solar energy for American families. We are privileged to introduce the nine new Fellows joining us this year, PAUL TODD
organizations serving vulnerable populations and tackling tough honored to share these stories. growing our community of social entrepreneurs to 54. CEO, GLG
challenges all over the world. And it’s why we’ve continued to
grow our Social Impact initiatives substantially, increasing our
investment every year.
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 7
Green Energy Should Be
Affordable and Accessible
Community Solar
Is Leading the Way
Steph Speirs was working on renewable energy in rural Pakistan and India
when she realized that many of the roadblocks she was encountering also
existed back home in the United States. And she became obsessed with the
idea of doing something about it.
Many Americans want to use solar power, but up to 80% are still unable
to access it — because they lack roof access, have homes in areas with
insufficient sun exposure, or live in low-to-middle income households.
Steph co-founded Solstice in 2015 to solve this problem. Solstice’s mission is
to make solar power more scalable and inclusive by making it more affordable
and accessible. The organization has embraced the innovative concept of
community solar — a way to harness solar energy without putting panels
on individual homes. Instead, individuals enroll in shared “solar gardens,”
reserving a portion of panels for their own use, without any upfront cost.
As the gardens produce energy for the local utility, these customers see
savings applied to their energy bill.
U.S. community solar capacity has
more than quadrupled since 2016.
Since 2015, Solstice has worked on dozens of solar projects serving more
than 16,000 households, and has expanded from Massachusetts into New
York and California. The organization has embraced a two-tiered approach
to growth: it is both a software platform, helping solar companies acquire
and manage customers for solar gardens; and an advocacy organization,
working to educate and grow the network of solar customers in low-
income neighborhoods.
Working with GLG and its experts has helped Solstice better understand
the energy landscape of each new community through access to data and
insights on local policy and regulatory environments. For example, as Solstice
worked on its customer recruitment strategy, GLG connected Steph and her
team to experts with experience framing the issue of climate change and the
benefits of renewable energy in underserved populations.
Solstice has also turned to GLG for insight into the competitive solar
landscape — connecting with experts on the implementation of a strategic
sales model, professionalizing a fundraising operation, and best practices in
channel marketing. On these and other topics, access to GLG’s knowledge
marketplace has helped Steph’s team build a sustainable model so they can
continue delivering solar to a wide range of communities.
Forty-two states have begun community solar programs, and solar power is
now as cheap as fossil fuels in thirty countries. Around the world, the solar
industry has grown exponentially, and momentum towards renewable energy
Solstice
solutions is accelerating. Steph and her team have played an active role in
this progress, and as the solar marketplace grows, Solstice will continue their Co-Founder & CEO
crucial work making the switch to clean energy accessible for everyone. Steph Speirs
Issue Area
Solar Energy Access
Impact Location
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 United States 9
Revolutionizing Mobile Banking
for Farmers in West Africa
A New Approach to
Financial Inclusion
Anushka Ratnayake had been working in Africa for three years, talking to
farmers about their financial needs, when she realized that international
development organizations were missing an important issue. Hundreds of
farmers across West Africa kept saying the same thing to her: what they
needed was not a loan, but a safe and convenient way to set aside money
for the future.
Farmers “have a cash flow problem,” Anushka explains. After the harvest,
they have a surplus — but banks are often far away and charge high
enrollment fees. “That means money stays at home.” But holding large
amounts of cash can be dangerous, and the money is more likely to be spent
quickly, leaving little cushion for the rest of the year.
To help address this issue, Anushka launched myAgro in 2011. myAgro’s
technology, modeled after pre-paid phone cards, creates an easy-to-use
payment platform that allows farmers to lock away money when they have
more of it. Starting just after harvest, farmers use myAgro’s platform to make
small payments whenever they have cash available. Over the six months
between harvest and the next planting season, farmers amass enough
small payments to purchase seeds, fertilizer, and other farming tools, with
the ultimate goal of increasing their yields and moving them out of poverty.
Eight years since inception, the organization has grown from a 240-farmer
trial program in Mali to a robust organization that will serve 120,000 farmers
in three African countries in 2020.
Farmers who use myAgro see a
50% to 100% increase in their harvest.
When Anushka applied to the GLG Fellowship in 2017, myAgro’s network
was rapidly growing. As they scaled and diversified their offerings, Anushka
and her team relied on GLG’s knowledge marketplace to address the range
of unique challenges that can arise working in remote parts of Africa. GLG’s
experts have helped myAgro understand everything from how to forecast
and model fertilizer pricing to how to ensure myAgro’s work is represented in
agricultural policy debates in local governments. And as farmers contend with
an increasingly unpredictable climate, GLG has helped myAgro effectively
partner with an insurance company to assess climate insurance policies in a
complicated market.
As the organization’s impact has continued to expand, GLG has also paired
individuals from myAgro’s leadership team with experts to help them
understand management best practices and decision-making strategies.
Anushka believes access to GLG has helped everyone learn “how to work
better, make better decisions, and hold each other accountable so that we
myAgro enter this next phase of growth with a really strong team.”
Founder & CEO Throughout their work with GLG and beyond, myAgro’s core purpose has
Anushka Ratnayake remained the same: to serve farmers, first and foremost. As they continue to
pioneer innovative approaches to financial inclusion, Anushka and her team are
Issue Area
on course to meet their ambitious goal of serving one million farmers by 2025.
Rural Agribusiness Financing
Impact Location
Mali, Senegal,
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2019–2020 11GLG Fellow Organization Team Rubicon
Impact Spotlight:
Disaster Relief
Three hundred and fifteen natural disaster events were
recorded in 2018 alone — impacting more than 68 million
people and causing roughly $132 billion in economic losses
around the world.
GLG has long supported organizations working at the forefront of disaster relief. After Hurricane Katrina, GLG worked
with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, providing a range of key insights to support rebuilding efforts in New
Orleans. A longstanding partnership with Spirit of America provides GLG experts to advise on humanitarian
relief efforts around the world.
Two GLG Social Impact Fellows — Team Rubicon and SBP — are at the leading edge of global disaster relief
efforts. In the past several years, with free access to the world’s largest network of experts and support from GLG’s
employees, both Team Rubicon and SBP have deployed hundreds of thousands of volunteers, contributed millions
of dollars in aid and labor, and responded rapidly to communities in need.
Team Rubicon (TR) pairs the strengths and skill sets of SBP ensures that communities impacted by disasters
military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy response have the resources to prepare and recover in the most
teams in the aftermath of natural disasters. Team Rubicon is quickly prompt, efficient, and predictable way possible. By
becoming one of the most impactful resources in the nonprofit increasing resilience before disasters occur and streamlining
disaster relief space. Since 2010, TR has had a significant impact the post-disaster recovery process, SBP helps fortify people
on some of the hardest-hit areas around the world, including Haiti, against unnecessary stress and trauma.
Puerto Rico, Houston, and California.
in 2018... in 2018...
4,795 volunteers deployed 16,458 volunteers served
90 disaster relief 234 homes rebuilt for families
operations launched
$5.6 million of volunteer
$7.9 million of volunteer labor hours served
labor hours served Hurricane Harvey:
GLG and Its Fellows Respond
GLG has more than 700 employees in Austin, large numbers of GLGers traveled by Post-Harvey impact data
Texas — so when Hurricane Harvey devastated bus from Austin to Houston to pitch in as of October 2019
the Texas coast in 2017, the GLG community alongside these GLG Fellows. Together,
Deadliest Disasters of 2018 leapt into action. the teams helped rebuild homes to get Team Rubicon
impacted Texans back on their feet. Both • 1,975 volunteers served 42,578 hours
EARTHQUAKES FLOODS WILDFIRES VOLCANIC The Category 4 storm impacted roughly 13 million Team Rubicon and SBP have remained
10 events ACTIVITY • 70 homes rebuilt
45% of deaths 24% of deaths people, dumping more than 27 trillion gallons active in the Houston metro area since
127 events 7 events of rain and leaving behind 13 million cubic the storm, working together on recovery • $2.33 million of volunteer labor hours served
Floods have affected more
yards of debris. As the storm swept through the and rebuilding efforts and training local
people than any other disaster region, both Team Rubicon and SBP played communities in disaster preparedness. SBP
in the 21st century. • 2,631 volunteers served 56,688 hours
crucial response roles on the ground, helping
with search-and-rescue operations and • 181 homes rebuilt
supporting uprooted families. After the storm,
• $3.11 million granted to 7 nonprofits
in the region
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 13 13Matching Talent with
Opportunity and Bringing
Diversity to Tech
A Nonprofit Steps Up
to Train for the Future
While serving in Iraq as a captain in the U.S. Army, Jukay Hsu noticed
something: often, the biggest difference between officers like him and
the soldiers in their platoons was that the officers had gone to college.
Frustrated that a person’s lack of access to higher education could be such
an impediment to career opportunity, Jukay returned home determined to
do something about it.
Jukay was raised in Queens, New York, the most diverse county in America.
In 2011, the tech-sector explosion was everywhere — but the jobs it created
were often out of reach for job seekers from low-income backgrounds who
lacked adequate training or professional support. To solve this problem, Jukay
launched Pursuit — originally called “Coalition for Queens” — to empower the
next generation of tech leaders.
Pursuit has launched more than 500 fellows into tech industry careers
through a four-year intensive program that teaches coding and other IT skills,
places fellows in jobs, and provides three years of post-placement professional
support. More than half of Pursuit fellows are on public assistance, and the
program places a strong emphasis on filling its classes with underrepresented
groups, including women, immigrants, and people without traditional four-year
college degrees.
On average, Pursuit graduates’
annual salaries grow from $18,000
to over $85,000.
Jukay and his team started with an initial pilot of just 26 fellows from Queens.
But as the program grew larger and spread throughout New York, they turned
to GLG to grow their impact.
First, they wanted to learn how to rebrand and expand. Through surveys and
phone calls with experts in nonprofit naming and logo design, Coalition for
Queens became Pursuit. Next, they turned to GLG’s experts to understand best
practices for career coaching — especially within the IT space — and to identify
the right metrics for success. “Pursuit is not just about training and getting a job,”
says Jukay. “We care about the long-term. We want our fellows to thrive and
make a permanent, lasting change in their career and life trajectory.”
Working together with GLG, Pursuit has developed innovative metrics
to track what makes people successful tech sector employees, going
beyond traditional hiring benchmarks (like a college GPA) to better serve
underrepresented populations. GLG has also helped Jukay and his team gain
insights into how to develop a sales team in the nonprofit sector and build out
their corporate partnership opportunities as the organization moves towards
achieving a fully sustainable business model. Pursuit
As the Pursuit team continues to grow, expanding its pool of fellows through Co-Founder & CEO
initiatives like Level Up — which partners with tech companies to train high- Jukay Hsu
achieving service-sector workers in engineering and software development —
Issue Area
Jukay is continuing to push for a diverse tech community with opportunities Tech Training
available to all. and Employment
Impact Location
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 United States 15 15GLG and Our Clients:
Partners at the Leading
Edge of Social Innovation
JEN FIELD
Director of Social Impact, GLG
From our earliest days and very first projects, GLG has delivered expert insight to organizations
creating positive change — from supporting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane
Katrina to partnering with Spirit of America’s humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
GLG is a 21st–century
In addition to our Fellows and nonprofits nominated by our employees, we have supported information portal that
close to 100 innovative organizations across the social sector, including grantmaking
foundations, nonprofit advisory firms, impact funds, and more.
puts the expertise of
And over the last few years — as the private sector more broadly has embraced the concepts
of shared value and corporate social responsibility — we’ve worked with many GLG clients who
are building their own initiatives in social impact and sustainability. To support these clients,
the world — renowned
we’ve recruited experts in impact investing, ESG (environmental, social, and governance)
investing, impact measurement, and other related topics.
experts — at your
We are proud of GLG’s contributions to new social impact models, and we will continue
leveraging our platform to help all our clients tackle the world’s most pressing problems. disposal. GLG has
been more than a
Some of Our Client Work
partner; they have been
Social Finance The Bridgespan Group a guiding light and an
invaluable resource.
GLG Social Impact partners with Social GLG Social Impact has worked closely with The
Finance, a nonprofit pioneering the Pay for Bridgespan Group (TBG), the leading advisor
Success model of financing social programs. to nonprofits and NGOs, philanthropists,
Their innovative financing strategies for and investors, since 2013. TBG consultants
social progress include social impact bonds, have turned to GLG to expand their networks
outcomes rate cards, and career impact across sectors to understand and evaluate
bonds. The Social Finance team relies on topics as diverse as Free Trade Agreements Jim Hake, CEO
GLG’s platform to engage experts on a in India, income share agreements in the Spirit of America
range of complex topics, such as shared risk U.S., and tertiary education for refugees. GLG
contracts with Medicaid Care organizations, has also sourced experts for in-person deep
juvenile justice systems for tribal youth, and dives, such as a foundation retreat focused
recidivism reduction. on challenges faced by pre-teen girls.
Select GLG experts include: Select GLG experts include:
• Former Chief Deputy Warden, • Executive, Girls Who Code
California Correctional Center • President, Innovation Center for
• Former Manager, Community and Youth Development
Federal Bureau of Prisons • Program Officer, Social Innovation Fund
• Advisor, National Institute of Corrections at Corporation for National
and Community Service
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 17Announcing Our
New Class of Fellows:
Nine Social Innovators
from Around the World
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RACHEL WALD
Director of Social Impact Programs, GLG
Our clients and Fellows continue to leverage
GLG’s network in new and exciting ways,
and we are honored to be a part of the
massive impact that these organizations 3 8
have on the lives of millions of people around
the world. The nine Fellows we welcome
this year are creating change across five
continents. They are building footbridges
that bring rural communities out of isolation,
fighting malnutrition in Guatemala, expanding
literacy in India, supporting journalism around
the world, and much more.
4 5 6
1 2 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bridges to Prosperity The Common Market Dost Education Fargreen Fathers’ Uplift Global Press OpenBiome Semilla Nueva UrSure
Avery Bang Tatiana Garcia-Granados Sneha Sheth Trang Tran Charles Daniels Cristi Hegranes Carolyn Edelstein Curt Bowen Giffin Daughtridge
President and CEO Co-Founder and COO Co-Founder and CEO Founder and CEO Co-Founder and CEO Publisher and CEO Executive Director Executive Director Co-Founder and CEO
Issue Area: Issue Area: Issue Area: Issue Area: Agriculture and Issue Area: Family Issue Area: Issue Area: Issue Area: Issue Area:
Rural Connectivity and Infrastructure Food Security and Agriculture Education Technology Environmental Sustainability Absenteeism and Mental Health Supporting Local Journalism Healthcare Malnutrition Healthcare
Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location: Impact Location:
Rwanda, Uganda, Bolivia United States India Vietnam United States Global United States Guatemala United States
Bridges to Prosperity builds The Common Market is a regional Dost Education creates short, Fargreen works with a network Fathers’ Uplift helps fathers Global Press trains OpenBiome expands safe Semilla Nueva collaborates UrSure makes patient-
footbridges around the world distributor connecting American accessible, mobile content to of Vietnamese farmers to divert overcome emotional barriers and employs women in access to fecal microbiota with communities, NGOs, friendly diagnostic tests
that connect isolated communities communities with food from empower parents at any literacy rice crop waste to grow and sell that may prevent them from developing media markets transplants and catalyzes and governmental agencies that measure and improve
to education, healthcare, and sustainable family farms. level to promote early childhood premium edible mushrooms and remaining engaged in their to be ethical investigative research into the human to develop and expand the adherence to medications.
economic opportunity. development in India. other crops. children’s lives. journalists. microbiome. use of biofortified corn to
fight malnutrition and poverty
in Guatemala.
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 19Current Fellows:
How the 2018–2020 Class
is Using GLG
Braven Aimée Eubanks Davis Foster America Sherry Lachman
Issue Area: Economic Mobility and Career Readiness Impact Location: United States Issue Area: Child Welfare System Reform Impact Location: United States
Braven works to close the education-to-employment gap that many low-income and first- Foster America creates a pipeline of leaders and innovators to transform the child welfare system.
generation college students experience. Partnering with universities to embed career education Their fellowship recruits and supports professionals with skills in data, technology, marketing
into the undergraduate curriculum, Braven provides students with opportunities to build the skills, design, strategy, and finance to lead reform projects that create impactful change in child welfare.
experience, and networks that smooth the transition from college to strong first jobs.
GLG x Foster America: GLG experts skilled in organizational growth and HR best practices have
GLG x Braven: Braven used GLG experts to identify which industries offer the most job helped Foster America nearly double the size of its team while maintaining stable operations.
opportunities and career-advancement pathways for new college graduates, including deep Foster America also connected with GLG survey design experts to develop surveys of their fellows
dives into the legal, criminal justice, science, engineering, and technology sectors. As they have and agency partners. These surveys are now a part of the toolkit they use to assess organizational
expanded their impact, Braven has also paired with experts in corporate partnership structure and performance and the impact of their fellows program.
pricing. GLG connected them with a former Chief External Relations Officer, a VP of Development,
and other experts whose insights helped Braven expand their services across the Bay Area,
Newark, and Chicago.
Noora Health Shahed Alam
Issue Area: Healthcare Skills Training Impact Location: India, Bangladesh
Drive Change Jordyn Lexton
Issue Area: Criminal Justice and Job Training Impact Location: United States Noora Health turns hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms, training hospital patients
and their family caregivers in high-impact, life-saving skills. Noora Health’s training enables family
Drive Change runs a paid fellowship designed to help formerly incarcerated young people members to provide quality care in the hospital and at home, reducing preventable complications
learn the necessary tools to succeed in the food service industry. Fellows practice their skills on and improving the health outcomes of post-procedure and post-diagnosis patients.
the Drive Change food truck, providing healthy meals to food-insecure communities. After the
fellowship, trainees are placed in jobs at food businesses that are committed to supportive and GLG x Noora Health: Noora Health has used GLG to access a huge range of expert insights to
equitable workplace cultures. help reach as many patients as possible in a resource-constrained environment. For example,
when Noora wanted to understand the most effective ways to communicate with patients
GLG x Drive Change: As Drive Change built out their approach to training and strategy, after they leave the hospital, GLG connected them with technology strategists from mobile
they turned to GLG for large-scale insights to validate hypotheses. For example, when the team and social media companies. Their insights saved Noora Health the time and cost of developing
needed proof that consumers care about how restaurants treat their employees, a GLG survey a new software program to keep in touch with patients — instead, the team was able to integrate
of 500 New Yorkers bore out Drive Change’s hypothesis that consumers value ethical practices. existing technology into their practice.
Drive Change is leveraging these and other insights to create improved working conditions at the
restaurants where their fellows work.
EarthEnable Gayatri Datar Simprints Toby Norman
Issue Area: Residential Sanitation Impact Location: Rwanda, Uganda Issue Area: Biometric Identification Impact Location: South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa
EarthEnable develops affordable and sanitary earthen floors for homes in Rwanda and Uganda. Simprints builds biometric identity software and hardware to help create a unique record of the
Their washable flooring protects more than 15,000 people from common health issues caused roughly one billion people worldwide who lack a formal identification. The affordable, secure, and
by dirt floors, such as infectious disease and respiratory conditions and is 75% cheaper than rugged Simprints fingerprint scanner enables researchers, NGOs, and governments to work in
concrete alternatives. even the world’s toughest conditions.
GLG x EarthEnable: A GLG expert with more than 30 years of experience in the polymers and GLG x Simprints: GLG experts are leading ongoing, semi-monthly coaching engagements for
coatings industry gave EarthEnable a better understanding of how to optimize the materials that the Simprints leadership team, focusing on crucial people-based skills and subjects, including
make up their earthen floors. Phone consultations and in-person engagements with the expert executive presence, time management, and the development of outcome-based KPIs. These
prepared EarthEnable both to adjust the varnish formulation to achieve stronger, safer floors and engagements have deepened the team’s management capabilities and accelerated organizational
to implement manufacturing changes at scale. growth as Simprints expands into new countries.
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 21Current Fellows
StrongMinds Sean Mayberry
Issue Area: Women’s Mental Health Impact Location: Uganda, Zambia GLG is leveraging the
StrongMinds is scaling a cost-effective therapeutic model to address depression in Africa.
The organization provides mental health services to impoverished women whose depression greatest asset there
prevents them from leading healthy, productive, and fulfilling lives.
GLG x Braven: GLG supported StrongMinds as they expanded their program into Zambia is — human talent —
following five years of successful operation in Uganda. GLG experts from Zambian educational
coalitions, local newspapers, and NGOs shared their research to help prepare StrongMinds for
a successful expansion. Powered by these insights, StrongMinds is on track to treat 1,200 women
to help organizations
during their first year working in Zambia — and they’re now launching a formal partnership
program with the nation’s Ministry of Health.
like ours succeed.
With GLG, we’ve explored
Thorn Julie Cordua
Issue Area: Eliminating Online Child Sexual Exploitation Impact Location: Global
new revenue streams,
Thorn develops proprietary technology that helps tech companies and law enforcement
agencies combat the proliferation of child sexual abuse material on social platforms and
other digital media.
devised systems
GLG x Thorn: Thorn has connected with many different GLG experts to help crack
the tough strategic, technical, and regulatory challenges of their mission to enhance the
infrastructure, and
planned for our growth.
safety of children online. For example, soon after becoming a Fellow, Thorn wanted to size
the market of user-generated content on the Internet — a challenging goal given how
difficult it is to track such content. GLG connected them with experts including CTOs and
Our partnership is
the former Global Head of Creator Development & Management at a large tech company.
These insights helped Thorn further develop initiatives to deter abusers who are active
on hosting platforms.
hugely valuable.
The Trevor Project Amit Paley
GLG Fellow Zack Rosenburg
Issue Area: LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Impact Location: United States
SBP
The Trevor Project provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth
under 25, creating safe, accepting, and inclusive environments over the phone, online, and
through text.
GLG x The Trevor Project: The Trevor Project wanted to learn how to leverage machine learning
and natural language processing to better support at-risk LGBTQ youth. GLG arranged phone
consultations with data scientists, who provided insights on how to implement a centralized
analytics platform that assesses the language users post on TrevorSpace, the world’s largest
safe-space social networking site. As a result, The Trevor Project was able to improve their ability
to collect, track, and analyze these posts, helping them deliver context-specific responses and
services to reach even more LGBTQ youth more effectively.
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 FELLOWS 23 23Previous Fellows:
A Look Back at Our Community
2017-2019 Class Global Health Corps Nest City Health Works
Barbara Bush Rebecca van Bergen Manmeet Kaur
Frontline Issue Area: Global Health Issue Area: Handworker Economy Issue Area: Community Health
Josh MacAlister Impact Location: Global Impact Location: Global Impact Location: United States
Issue Area: Child Welfare and Social Work
Impact Location: United Kingdom Team Rubicon Open Medicine Project CREA
Jake Wood Mohammed Dalwai Leticia M. Jáuregui
myAgro Issue Area: Disaster Relief Issue Area: Healthcare Technology Issue Area: Women’s Businesses
Anushka Ratnayake Impact Location: Global Impact Location: South Africa Impact Location: Mexico
Issue Area: Rural Agribusiness Financing
Impact Location: Mali, Senegal, Tanzania WAVE Possible East Bali Cashews
Misan Rewane Mark Arnoldy Aaron Fishman
Pursuit Issue Area: Education and Employment Issue Area: Healthcare Issue Area: Agriculture
Jukay Hsu Impact Location: Nigeria Impact Location: Nepal Impact Location: Indonesia
Issue Area: Tech Training and Employment
Impact Location: United States Sanergy Nuru International
David Auerbach Jake Harriman
Solstice 2015-2017 Class Issue Area: Sanitation Issue Area: Poverty Alleviation
Steph Speirs Impact Location: Kenya Impact Location: Kenya, Ethiopia
Issue Area: Solar Energy Access Aunt Bertha
Impact Location: United States Erine Gray Sustainable Health The Resolution Project
Issue Area: Human Services Access Enterprises Oliver Libby
SIRUM Impact Location: United States Elizabeth Scharpf Issue Area: Social Venture Fellowship
Kiah Williams Issue Area: Women’s Health Impact Location: United States
Issue Area: Healthcare Access BlocPower Impact Location: Rwanda
Impact Location: United States Donnel Baird Samasource
Issue Area: Environmental Sustainability TreeHouse Leila Janah
Yimishiji Impact Location: United States Jason Ballard Issue Area: Tech Training and Employment
Matilda Ho Issue Area: Environmental Sustainability Impact Location: Kenya, Uganda, India
Issue Area: Food and Agriculture Compass Working Capital Impact Area: United States
Impact Location: China Sherry Riva SBP
Issue Area: Financial Literacy Zack Rosenburg
Impact Location: United States Issue Area: Disaster Relief
2014-2015 Class Impact Location: Global
2016-2018 Class The Future Project
Kanya Balakrishna Agora Partnerships Spark+Mettle
Bayes Impact Issue Area: Education Ben Powell Eugenie Teasley
Eric Liu Impact Location: United States Issue Area: Entrepreneurship Issue Area: Youth Empowerment
Issue Area: Public Service Impact Location: Global Impact Location: United Kingdom
Impact Location: Global Golden Palm Investments
Sangu Delle All Star Code Venture for America
D-Rev Issue Area: Social Enterprise Christina Lewis Halpern Andrew Yang
Krista Donaldson Impact Location: Africa Issue Area: Tech Training and Employment Issue Area: Entrepreneurship
Issue Area: Healthcare Impact Location: United States Impact Location: United States
Impact Location: Global The Lowline
Dan Barasch Catchafire
Drinkwell Issue Area: Environmental Sustainability Rachael Chong
Minhaj Chowdhury Impact Location: United States Issue Area: Skills-based Volunteer Matching
Issue Area: Water Access Impact Location: United States
Impact Location: Bangladesh, India
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 25The GLG Partners Program:
Expanding Our Impact
The Partners Program expands
GLG’s impact by empowering
our employees.
The GLG Partners Every GLGer is now able to give the power of our knowledge marketplace to the causes
and organizations they care about by nominating a nonprofit for free access to a GLG project.
It’s an innovative spin on a traditional employee match, with GLG donating in-kind services
Program is a powerful to match employees’ efforts in scoping and running projects that drive social progress.
way to feel like you’re How an Austin GLGer Helped a Nonprofit Find Success
making a very direct — Imagine a job that encourages you not only to
look for problems in the world, but to actively
Any one of the issues facing Dress for Success
would have taken time and money to address
play a role in solving them. That’s just one — “and most of the time, nonprofits don’t
and immediate — impact. of the things that drew Texas-based Brooke
Currie to join GLG after graduating from college.
have the staff or the funding to do that,”
Mia pointed out. But thanks to GLG’s extensive
database of industry-specific experts, Brooke
In February 2019, GLG’s Social Impact had the answers at her fingertips. “The most
GLGer Morgan Franklin initiative rolled out the Partners Program challenging part for me — which I enjoyed
Client Solutions, Austin — which enables every GLGer, regardless — was figuring out who were the right experts
of role, tenure, or geography, to connect to help,” said Brooke. “The options are kind
nonprofits of their choice with pro bono of limitless.”
expert consultations.
Within weeks, Dress for Success was
For Brooke, that meant helping women connected to three professionals. “The
who are trying to advance their careers. consultants I worked with were stellar,”
“As a young woman in the corporate world, Mia said. “I felt so privileged to talk to them.
it seemed like a good way to give back,” They were sincere and all very helpful.”
she said. So she connected with Mia Johns,
the executive director of the Austin chapter The entire experience was “eye-opening” for
of Dress for Success. Launched in 2003, Brooke as well. “It’s really rewarding to think
the central Texas affiliate of the national creatively to help networks problem-solve,”
nonprofit empowers women to achieve she said, “I think it’s great that GLG offers
economic independence by providing a this unique opportunity.”
network of support, professional attire,
and development tools that help women A version of this article previously appeared on NationSwell.com
thrive in work and in life.
When Brooke reached out to offer GLG’s
services, Mia’s response was an enthusiastic
yes. Over several phone calls and emails,
Brooke narrowed in on three areas where
GLG could help Dress for Success: creating
updated promotional materials with a clearer
sense of the services offered, fine-tuning
a communications strategy to reach their
network of 300 volunteers, and helping
clients continue to improve their skills in
pursuit of more lucrative jobs.
SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 27GLG Fellow Organization Yimishiji
The Last Word:
The Future of GLG Social
Impact — A Smarter World
Works Better
RICHARD SOCARIDES
Chief Communications Officer, GLG
GLG was founded more than 20 years ago on the belief that a smarter world
works better — and we have never stopped exploring new ways to apply our
knowledge marketplace to society’s toughest challenges.
When we launched our Social Impact Fellowship to deliver the power of GLG
to social entrepreneurs and their teams for free, we couldn’t have imagined the
extraordinary response. The breadth of issues our Fellows address, and the
scale of their collective impact, increases dramatically with each new class.
This year, we innovated again, launching our Social Impact Partners Program to
empower every GLGer to contribute our company’s resources and our experts’
insights to causes they care about.
I’m honored to lead the team that is driving these efforts. Through all our Social
Impact initiatives, we have supported a huge range of changemakers by providing
what only GLG can: powerful insights from the world’s largest network of experts
and unmatched service from our global team of passionate employees.
What does a smarter world look like? It looks like a chemicals expert whose
knowledge helps create safer homes for families in Rwanda, like data scientists
whose insights help identify gay kids in distress, like hundreds of consumers
whose survey responses help support young people starting careers after
incarceration. Those aren’t theoretical examples — they’re just a few from last year.
When knowledge doesn’t go to waste,
the world works better.
And we’re not done breaking new ground. Together with our Fellows, clients,
and partners, we look forward to continuing to grow our impact even more in
the years ahead.
The world’s challenges are tough, and the private sector is stepping up to play
a role in solving them. Companies are increasingly judged by their willingness to
help make a difference. We’re proud to play a leadership role, contributing our
unique resources and expertise to help drive change.
In these pages, we’ve shared inspiring examples of what GLG can do.
With 54 Fellows and hundreds of Social Impact clients and partners —
supported by thousands of GLGers and experts — we’re just getting started.
Thank you for being a part of our efforts.
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SOCIAL IMPACT 2019–2020 29When you have a question about a certain
subject, or about a particular strategy,
you can spend time as well as personal
ABOUT GLG
and social capital tracking down the right
high-level person who has thought about GLG is the world’s
knowledge marketplace.
this issue for the last 20 years…
We connect decision makers who want the
Or you can use GLG. advantage of powerful insight to people with
first-hand experience, so they can act with the
confidence that comes from true clarity. Our
GLG Fellow Kiah Williams
network is the largest in the world, and we
SIRUM recruit thousands of new experts every month.
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