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For social impact pioneers, GDI serves as both a guide and implementer, looking to elevate our ventures and the broader causes they represent. From a venture’s discovery to its operational building blocks, we leverage our outsider experience and insider commitment to turn big ideas into action. We are committed to working with our partners for the long-haul, crossing sector boundaries to forge critical relationships between traditional and non-traditional development actors.Browse case studies of our incubated initiatives to see how we design and build transformational development ventures. At GDI, we believe the world is full of good ideas, but great ideas are few and far between. We select the best concepts and bring them to life.COVID-19 and Modern Slavery: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of the FightHow the pandemic is affecting victims of modern slavery, and the opportunity for the public and private sector to recover responsibly in order to prevent exploitation.Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS)GDI and ITT Partner to Design Tech Solutions for COVID-19 in Low-Income CountriesThe initiative will focus on high-impact technology innovations for primary healthcare systems, along with solutions for the necessary operational and logistics challenges, policy imperatives and capacity needs.GDI & the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT)Leapfrog to Value is an early-stage health initiative incubated by GDI that is building a coalition around value-based care.Leapfrog to ValueNew Pathways to Prosperity Report Introduces Tools to Bridge the Persistent Rural Agricultural Financing GapUpdated data on the size and scope of the rural agricultural finance market, and new models for closing the $170B global smallholder financing gap.ISF Advisors & RAF Learning LabThe jobs and livelihoods sector has transformed significantly over the past decade, and is expected to see even greater shifts in the coming years. GDI Director Alice Gugelev brings forth opportunities that have the potential to transform systems to create sustainable jobs across the value chain.Alive Gugelev, GDIThe Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance presents sector insights in its 2019 report.CSAFWe’re thrilled to share GDI’s 2018 annual report, which takes a look at GDI’s milestone year in 2018 and outlines our approach to building initiatives from the ground up.GDIWe often talk about youth representing our world’s future. But, too often, when discussing challenges facing young people, we exclude them from the conversations and talk about what we can do for them, not with them. GDIGDI team shares insights on scaling impact with 400 social sector leaders in ChinaWhat does it mean to scale impact? Why does it matter? How can we do it better?GDIInvesting in smart communications can help ensure that valuable research gets read and put to use in solving global development challenges.Stanford Social Innovation ReviewA closer look at the ways leading global development organizations have tapped into social media to advance their causes shows that ignoring social media may mean missing out on having a greater impact.GDIThe inaugural State of Digital Health report provides the first ever snapshot of digital health ecosystems throughout the world and lays the foundation for better informed and coordinated investments in digital health.Global Digital Health IndexParadigm Shift offers impact investors, grant-makers, and development finance professionals the first landscape of the what, why, who, where, and most importantly, how, of investing in and with displaced people. Refugee Investment NetworkThe Bretton Woods II Leaders List: The 25 most responsible asset allocators [PDF]For long-term institutions, investing sustainably is not only the right thing to do but also the smart thing to do. GDI, New America, Dalberg and the Fletcher School reportIn a global development sector tight on resources, partnerships should shut down after accomplishing (or failing to achieve) their missions.Stanford Social Innovation ReviewFundamental shifts are changing global health as we know it, requiring diverse and disruptive groups of people from across sectors to collaborate on solutions.GDI, Dalberg, and Johnson & Johnson reportThis year marks the last Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. How might future global development convenings build on the meeting’s success to create even greater impact?Stanford Social Innovation ReviewFor funders and founders thinking about launching a multi-stakeholder initiative for social impact, the question of "whether" is just as important as "how."Stanford Social Innovation ReviewApplying the structure of a holding company to the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors could help both small, high-potential organizations and larger anchor organizations flourish.Stanford Social Innovation ReviewMulti-stakeholder initiatives can help address challenging global problems. But when are they the right solution, and what makes them succeed or fail?GDI ReportInnovative financing that blends public and private capital can unleash scalable business models with economic, social, and environmental outcomes.GDI ReportNonprofits each play a specific role in the overall solution to a social problem. To scale impact, they must define and pursue one of six "endgames."Stanford Social Innovation ReviewHow the Initiative for Smallholder Finance has driven key progress in closing the financing gap for smallholders.Inclusive Business HubInnovators and their funders can use market segementation of underserved customers to create a meaningful impact in their target areas. Skoll World ForumThe world’s 450 million smallholder farmers represent a large — and largely unmet — opportunity for agricultural financing. This landmark report led to the creation of GDI-incubated ISF Advisors.Dalberg report GDI is your trusted advisor when you need guidance, your “start-up team” when you need to get stuff done, and a mentor when you need a push in the right direction. The GDI team comes from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences, but we’re united by a proven track record of entrepreneurship, deep social sector expertise, and a culture of doing whatever it takes to get things done. Below is a snapshot of GDI’s leadership team. Alice is a Managing Director of GDI US and the CEO of GDI Africa, where she works with large corporations, commercial investors and INGOs to integrate social impact, innovation and social entrepreneurship efforts into their portfolios, and helps philanthropists and social enterprises more effectively create systems-level change. Prior to joining GDI, Alice worked at Bridgespan, Bain Co, the World Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. She is the co-founder and executive director of The Muskoka Foundation, as well as the co-founder and chief strategy officer of AppMkr. Alice earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and has a double major BA in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University and Stanford Japan Center. Alice enjoys spending time at her cabin in Canada with her family – and lots of uninvited black flies. Andrew is the Founder and CEO of GDI, and also serves as an ex-officio member of GDI s US Board and a member and the Chair of GDI’s Hong Kong Board. He shapes new opportunities for GDI to drive the global development sector forward and provides strategic guidance to select incubated initiatives. Andrew has played many roles within GDI initiatives, including Interim CEO of Convergence and of Emerging Public Leaders, and currently serves on the Boards of citiesRISE, Aceli Africa, and the Institute for Transformative Technologies, and the advisory board of Upstart Co-Lab.Prior to founding GDI, Andrew was a Global Operating Partner at Dalberg Global Advisors. During that time, he helped design and launch ANDE and served as the founding chairman of mothers2mothers. Andrew holds a joint MBA/MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from Princeton University. When he isn’t urging nonprofits toward their “endgames,” Andrew can be found pruning cedar groves in his backyard. Warren is the Managing Director, East Asia at GDI, where he spearheads GDI’s work in East Asia from Hong Kong. He works alongside the leadership of mission-driven businesses, non-profits and initiatives, as a long-term partner to design, incubate and implement strategies that achieve large-scale social impact. Warren brings strategic consulting and nonprofit management experience to GDI. He has worked at Dalberg Global Development Advisors (Asia), PwC Strategy (Australia), and was the Executive Director of a 170+ employee NGO in Yunnan, China. Warren holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. He has also developed a comprehensive personality assessment that he can occasionally be persuaded to administer to his colleagues. Tom is a Senior Advisor at GDI, where he works directly with rural enterprise development efforts. Tom focuses on GDI’s incubated initiatives in this space: ISF Advisors, Aceli Africa, the Rural Agricultural Finance Learning Lab, and the Council on Smallholder Finance (CSAF). This includes the development and application of products and services for small agricultural enterprises, including finance, digital technology, and education. His efforts aim to make the economics of environmentally sound, community-led rural enterprise development sustainable. Previously, Tom was a Partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors where he led a strategy consulting portfolio that included efforts such as comprehensive investment/market entry analyses of global and regional commodity markets; the development of public-private partnerships across a host of those markets; the commercialization of agriculture technologies; and the design of innovative financing mechanisms in frontier markets. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Aceli Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, and EarthEnable, based in Kigali, Rwanda. Tom holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and a BA in government from the University of Notre Dame. Mimi is the Director of GDI s Brand, Marketing, and Communications team. Born in the DRC of Rwandan heritage and raised in South Africa, Mimi Kalinda co-founded Africa Communications Media Group (ACG), a pan-African public relations and communications agency headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, as FleishmanHillard’s Africa Lead, Mimi was part of the team that won PRISM Awards for the Barclays Africa “Prosper” campaign as well as the African Union’s campaign against Ebola, for which they raised USD$51 million. She also worked for Weber Shandwick, where she managed social impact accounts, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Innovation Prize for Africa.From 2003 to 2006, Mimi worked in New York City, where she was a Production Assistant for 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, specifically on the film Inside Man, directed by Spike Lee. Mimi was the first African woman to host a show on MTV Europe and the recipient of the One World Media Award for Rien Que La Verite, a television program advocating the prevention of HIV/AIDS and an end to violence against women in the DRC. Mimi is a New York University graduate. Darin is Managing Director at GDI, where she works closely with the Development Frontiers focus area on building multi-stakeholder initiatives. She currently serves as the interim Director of Operations for the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. At GDI, she has also served as the Interim COO of Convergence, and an advisor to Unorthodox Philanthropy and Emerging Public Leaders. Darin co-authored “More than the Sum of Its Parts: Making Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Work.”Darin has experience designing and implementing social performance strategies at a range of mission-driven organizations, specializing in monitoring and evaluation and economic development. Before joining GDI, she led the social impact measurement work of the top solar energy provider for developing markets, d.light. Darin earned a MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA in International Relations from Brown University, and is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. Darin loves fireworks and is pretty good at Knock-out. Chintan is the Founder and Executive Director of Leapfrog to Value which is advancing the field of value-based care in low- and middle-income countries. He is also Director at GDI, leading a portfolio of initiatives aimed at improving the value of health systems. Chintan is a medical doctor and public health advocate. Prior to founding L2V, he was a consultant in McKinsey Co’s health systems practice, where he led value-based care reforms for payers, providers, and state governments in the United States; and advised on public sector delivery transformations in Africa. He also co-wrote a report for WHO/PAHO on financing primary care in Latin America. Chin is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and majored in political science at Duke University. He was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at Princeton University and a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica. When he isn t geeking out on health systems, he plays Capoeira Angola. Danielle is GDI s Talent Manager. She has spent her professional career working at nonprofits in various roles, including human resources, administrative operations, event planning, fundraising, donor relations and finance management. Before joining GDI, Danielle was Director of Talent and Administration at Independent Sector and Deputy Director of Human Resources and Operations at New America. She has also worked at the Employment Policy Foundation, College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Close Up Foundation. Danielle has a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and an MPA with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from American University. When she’s not in the office, you can find Danielle on her yoga mat, watching the Premier League football, or playing tennis. Jon leads GDI s Climate and Ecosystems work. He acts as the Chief Strategy Operations Officer of Emergent, a non-profit market catalyst incubated by GDI which is focused on the protection of tropical forests at national scale and backed by the Government of Norway, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Environmental Defense Fund. Jon also leads our exploration of game-changing initiatives in waste plastic and alternative fuels. Before GDI, Jon conceived and set up a global non-profit unit at EY that worked with leading impact entrepreneurs in low and middle-income countries. Earlier in his career, Jon worked for Accenture, The Prince’s Trust – a leading youth development NGO in the UK – and was an infantry officer in the British Army. Elizabeth is GDI s Director of Finance and the Treasurer of GDI U.S. In addition to leading finance and general operations across GDI, she also supports initiatives in building policy, procedure, and systems to effectively run their organization.Elizabeth has experience managing finance, accounting, compliance, human resources, and planning at a range of non-profit organizations in positions focused on capacity development. Before joining GDI, she served as Senior Director of Finance and Accounting at NASTAD and as Vice President of Finance and Administration at Education for Employment. Elizabeth received her MBA from Georgetown University and studied both International Development and Accounting as an undergraduate. Elizabeth aspires to grow a flourishing garden.Jason Wendle has been a Director at GDI for the past five years, designing and building initiatives in the AgEnterprise and Development Frontiers portfolios. In this capacity, he has most recently been acting as Director of Strategy and Programs for the recently launched Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. Jason has focused on the Fund’s overall organizational strategy, how to effectively deploy over $80M in seed funding from donor countries, and designing new programs that can secure additional funding. The fund prioritizes private sector engagement to develop ethical alternatives in sectors affected by forced labor, and its largest area of programming is in the area of forced labor among vulnerable migrants. Previously at GDI, Jason launched and directed the Mastercard Foundation Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab, which advances the knowledge frontier in smallholder finance and advises the directors of $175M worth of programs on how to capture actionable learnings. Jason started designing the Lab as an Associate Partner in the Nairobi office of Dalberg Advisors, where he spent seven years providing strategic advice to clients across a broad range sectors – such as impact investing, agricultural development, energy, technology for development, and access to finance. His clients have included the world’s largest private foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, African governments, and Fortune 100 firms. He also provided leadership to Dalberg’s evaluation work on the continent. Jason holds a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard s Kennedy School, and has published and presented work on smallholder finance, SME banking, modern slavery, and impact measurement. Andrew is the Founder and CEO of GDI, and also serves as an ex-officio member of GDI s US Board and a member and the Chair of GDI’s Hong Kong Board. He shapes new opportunities for GDI to drive the global development sector forward and provides strategic guidance to select incubated initiatives. Andrew has played many roles within GDI initiatives, including Interim CEO of Convergence and of Emerging Public Leaders, and currently serves on the Boards of citiesRISE, Aceli Africa, and the Institute for Transformative Technologies, and the advisory board of Upstart Co-Lab.Prior to founding GDI, Andrew was a Global Operating Partner at Dalberg Global Advisors. During that time, he helped design and launch ANDE and served as the founding chairman of mothers2mothers. Andrew holds a joint MBA/MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from Princeton University. When he isn’t urging nonprofits toward their “endgames,” Andrew can be found pruning cedar groves in his backyard. Elchi is the Chair of GDI s US board and a Principal at the Carlyle Group in New York City. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2014, Elchi was Director and Counsel at Credit Suisse, where he served as head of Alternative Investments Legal for the Americas. Elchi also worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen + Hamilton LLP specializing in complex financial transactions, including private investment fund formation and private acquisitions. Elchi currently sits on the Sub-Committee on Africa of the Advisory Committee of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice. He is also a past Chair of the Committee on African Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Elchi has worked and lived in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. Sewit Ahderom is a member of the GDI Kenya Board and the Co-Founder and COO of Gro Intelligence. Previously, Sewit was a Vice President at Helios Investment Partners, an Africa-focused private investment fund with more than $1.7 billion in capital under management. She joined Helios after working with IPS, an investment arm of the Aga Khan Development Network focused on food and agro processing as well as infrastructure development. Before moving to Nairobi, Sewit was a VP at Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in NY where she worked in the leveraged finance and global portfolio management teams. Sewit holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Nazanin is a member of GDI s US board and currently the Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy at the International Rescue Committee. From 2007 to 2012, she served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, designing policy initiatives to strengthen the effectiveness of U.S. government aid. Nazanin also served as principal advisor and chief of staff to the first Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prior to joining the U.S. Department of State, Nazanin worked for ActionAid-Kenya, one of the largest rights-based NGOs in Kenya. Shashi is a member of GDI s US board, CEO of the Institute for Transformative Technologies, and the founder of the LIGTT Institute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Prior to creating ITT and LIGTT, Shashi was a Partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors. Previously, Shashi has worked with the UN’s Peacekeeping Department to restructure global operations, with the Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation to launch large-scale agricultural development programs in Africa and Asia, and with dozens of NGOs fighting for human rights and economic empowerment. Before his career in global development, Shashi was an Associate Partner at McKinsey. Shashi teaches International Development at UC Berkeley. Xi Chen is member of GDI’s Hong Kong Board and Associate Director at Deloitte Sustainability Climate Change team advising corporates, governments and NGOs on topics of transitioning to low carbon economy, developing corporate climate change strategy and measuring social impact. Prior to Deloitte China, Xi was Finance Director at Blue Ventures Conservation, a UK based environmental NGO that engages the coastal communities in alternative wealth creation and responsible fisheries supply chain to reduce their reliance on marine resources. Xi also has over 9 years of Finance Strategy consulting experience from Accenture and PwC UK with expertise in managing sustainable change programs. Xi worked with the Accenture Development Partnership, a not for profit arm of Accenture and advised a microfinance network to improve their outreach and impact in Africa. Xi is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a master’s degree in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Warwick in the UK. Xi is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English, French and Romanian. Robert (Bob) Duggins is a member of GDI’s Hong Kong Board. Bob retired as Deputy Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Asset Management Limited, the London based holding company for all global asset management businesses within the HSBC Bank Group. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific of HSBC Asset Management Asia Pacific Limited and Managing Director of the global retail (mutual fund) business. He also served on a number of boards for the group, including the board of HSBC Investment Bank plc. Bob joined the HSBC Group in 1993 as Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Life Group where he had responsibility for all life insurance, pension, and retail investment funds. He lived and worked in Asia for more than 9 of his 26 years in financial services. Previous to joining HSBC, he worked in the insurance industry in senior management positions in the United States and Asia. He continues to serve on boards for organizations involved in non-profit work in China and mentors several individuals in the USA and Asia. He and his wife, Charla, have been married for 50 years and currently reside in The Woodlands, Texas, just north of Houston. Kate Montgomery is a member of the GDI Kenya Board and Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships at Acumen. She leads business development and partner engagement for our Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative and Africa. Prior to joining Acumen, she was d.light’s Director of Global Partnerships for five years, developing d.light’s strategy for engaging with the public sector and other key partners globally. A key part of this work is the institutionalization of d.light’s strategy to rigorously measure and communicate their social impact. Prior to that, she was in the humanitarian aid sector working for Tuft’s Feinstein International Center and the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan and Haiti. She holds a BA with honors in Political Science and East Asian Studies from Colgate University and a MS in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Bilha Ndirangu is a member of the GDI Kenya Board and the Chief Operating Officer at Africa s Talking (AT), a Pan-African mobile technology company that provides technology infrastructure and support to software developers with the aim of building a viable, entrepreneurial technology ecosystem for Africa.. Bilha oversees the company s operations across seven African markets including Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Malawi. Prior to joining AT, Bilha was a senior project manager at Dalberg Global Development advisors in its Nairobi office where she advised varied clients including national governments, multilaterals, foundations and private sector companies. As the first employee of the Dalberg Nairobi office, she helped grow the office from one consultant to a team of forty consultants advising clients across Africa. Bilha also worked as a business analyst with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. Bilha holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanda Ojiambo is a member of the GDI Kenya Board and the Head of Corporate Responsibility at Safaricom. Her role incorporates sustainable business, technology for development, environmental management, Safaricom Foundation and the M-PESA Foundation. Sanda is an Economist and Public Policy Analyst with over 10 years of multi-sectoral policy and development work in the NGO sector in sub-Saharan Africa, and 10 years of corporate sector experience in Kenya. Sanda is passionate about technology and the role it can play in socio-economic development and is also passionate about promoting responsible business. She holds a BA in Economics and International Development from McGill University (Canada) and MSc. In Public Policy and Development Economics from University of Minnesota (USA). Dr. Bernard Olayo is a member of the GDI Kenya Board and a Kenyan physician and public health specialist with more than 14 years’ experience as an Africa based Public Health Practitioner. He is also an entrepreneur and is the founder of a non-profit organization (Center for Public Health and Development) and three social enterprises working toward improving access to quality healthcare in Africa. He currently serves as the Chair where he provides strategic direction, thought leadership and oversight of the CPHD programs and subsidiary social enterprises. Dr. Olayo is also a technical team member for several World Bank programs in East Africa and an advisor to several ministries of Health in the region- with the main focus on enhancing the role of private sector in improving access to health services and goods through public private partnerships. He previously worked for Columbia University’s Earth Institute as a health specialist in the Millennium Villages Project, and Italian Development Corporation as a Health Advisor. He started his career with the Ministry of Health in Kenya as medical officer of health. Gretchen is a member of GDI’s US board and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of GenerationHope, Inc., a consumer products company that reinvests its profits in innovative programming for the economic advancement of Filipinos. Gretchen is passionate about building organizations that drive innovative, market-oriented solutions to enable inclusive growth, and has worked with a range of organizations to that end, including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey Company, the US Department of State, TechnoServe and PRADAN. Gretchen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in addition to GDI, she currently serves on the Boards of GenerationHope and Friends of Hope in the Philippines. She holds a Masters in International Development from Harvard University and has an A.B. in Economics, Spanish and Latin American Studies, summa cum laude, from Duke University. Beth is a member of GDI s US board and the Founder and Managing Director of Lucid Capital, an investment company focused on investing in and creating value in companies located in eastern and southern Africa. Prior to establishing Lucid Capital, Beth worked for ONCAP Management Partners L.P., a $575 million middle market private equity fund established by Onex Corp. in Toronto, Canada to invest in North American small and mid-size companies. Beth was responsible for identifying, analyzing, negotiating, executing, and monitoring private equity investments. Beth holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a native of Ethiopia. Jim Wert is member of GDI’s Hong Kong Board and the managing director of Wert Associates, a consultancy focused on building strategic clarity and organizational health for a wide array of clients spanning from Fortune 500 businesses to nonprofit clients, including single-site agencies and national and international networks. Prior to Wert Associates, Jim gained more than 20 years of experience as a strategic consultant with McKinsey Company and Triaxia Partners. Jim also spent seven years in national and multinational corporate environments. He served as the Chief Financial Officer at National Service Industries’ (NSI) Atlantic Envelope Division, directing strategic planning, performance management, sourcing, and merger and acquisitions efforts. Prior to NSI, Jim served as the Vice President of Marketing for Mead Coated Board, where he led market assessment, customer service, logistics, and product development teams. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with majors in political science and German, Jim earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. For us, scalability and impact aren’t just a metric of success, they re a criteria for support. We make big bets that can push the limits of our current systems, or outright transform them. GDI works with a team of advisors to bring cutting-edge expertise on a wide variety of disciplines to the ideas, initiatives, and organizations we support. StrategyCommunicationsFinanceLeadershipDesignFundraisingMetricsOrganizationLegal Represented by Dan Berelowitz Social franchising modelsReplication strategiesMonitoring and evaluationOrganizational development Represented by Annie Simonds Executive recruitingBoard developmentLeadership and succession advisory Represented by Raj Pannu Communications and positioningBrand identityPublic relations and thought leadership Represented by Mark Heffernan Financial managementNonprofit financial operationsCost modelsIRS filings, accounting Represented by Vicky Hausman Global development strategy advisoryResearch and analysisPartnership development Represented by Susan McPherson Thought leadership and media strategyDigital and social engagementStrategic partnership developmentFundraising strategy Represented by Robert Fabricant Human-centered designDesign lab facilitationService and program designInnovation strategy Represented by Carolyn Bess Fundraising strategyFundraising leadership trainingDonor managementOrganizational development Represented by Stace Lindsay Leadership mentoringEntrepreneur coachingOrganizational development Represented by Chloe Holderness Legal support for nonprofitsGovernance and organizational structure advisoryOrganizational development Represented by James Weinberg Leadership coachingOrganizational developmentEfficient systems development Represented by Dan Berelowitz Social franchising modelsReplication strategiesMonitoring and evaluationOrganizational development Represented by Raj Pannu Communications and positioningBrand identityPublic relations and thought leadership Represented by Mark Heffernan Financial managementNonprofit financial operationsCost modelsIRS filings, accounting Represented by Annie Simonds Executive recruitingBoard developmentLeadership and succession advisoryRepresented by Vicky Hausman Global development strategy advisoryResearch and analysisPartnership developmentRepresented by Susan McPherson Thought leadership and media strategyDigital and social engagementStrategic partnership developmentFundraising strategyRepresented by Robert Fabricant Human-centered designDesign lab facilitationService and program designInnovation strategyRepresented by Carolyn Bess Fundraising strategyFundraising leadership trainingDonor managementOrganizational development Represented by Chloe Holderness Legal support for nonprofitsGovernance and organizational structure advisoryOrganizational development The first step to creating real change is believing that it’s possible. GDI appreciates the contributions from its funders whose support is instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to life.

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