The GLG Social Impact Fellowship

Application Deadline: May 19, 2022

The GLG Social Impact Fellowship provides select nonprofits and social enterprises with a two-year pro bono partnership with GLG. GLG welcome applications from organizations working across all issue areas, including but not limited to education, environment, global health, and social justice.

Eligibility

GLG will select registered nonprofits, social enterprises, and hybrid organizations that are:

Driving impactful social change. Fellow organizations advance powerful missions and can demonstrate the positive impact of their work on the communities they serve.
Excited to leverage GLG’s unique platform. Fellows and their teams are eager to learn from experts and use one-of-a-kind insights to further their missions. They are committed to embedding GLG into their strategies, workflows, and decision-making processes.
Positioned to make the most of a partnership with GLG. Fellow organizations are past the early development stage, with leadership ready to pursue ambitious goals and scale their impact significantly. They have been in operation for at least three years and employ at least five full-time staff members.

Benefits

GLG Social Impact Fellows and their teams receive:

Extraordinary Expertise

Discuss your most pressing strategic, operational, and technical questions with world-class experts on every topic, including geographic expansion, user research, regulatory landscapes, and industry best practices. Your entire team – not just the individual named as the Fellow – will have access to GLG’s insight network, at no cost.

Dedicated Support Team

Partner with dedicated GLG employees who will support you and your team for two years. Your GLG team will help connect you to the right experts and ensure that you have the tools to pursue your biggest goals.

Cohort of Social Innovators

Build meaningful connections with like-minded social innovators in the GLG Social Impact Fellowship community. We host an annual convening and quarterly virtual roundtables for you to engage with these other talented leaders.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Social Impact Fellowship 2022

Application Deadline: June 30, 2018

The GLG Social Impact Fellowship leverages GLG’s learning platform to help top social entrepreneurs answer their organization’s critical strategic and operational questions, at no cost. Through the two-year Fellowship, ambitious and visionary nonprofit and social enterprise leaders learn in tailored interactions with experts across GLG’s membership and with each other.

Requirements:

Fellows are leaders with strong records and visions for their organizations. They have great teams and do something innovative that’s likely to scale. They are personally committed to learning, excited to grow professionally, and articulate ambitions for their organizations’ growth which GLG is positioned to support.

Benefits:

Each year of the Fellowship begins with an in-person convening at GLG’s offices in New York City or Austin. At the convening, Fellows learn how to use the GLG platform, meet the people of GLG and each other.
October 9–10 in the GLG New York office. Participation is mandatory and GLG will cover all associated expenses

Fellow Selection Criteria

1. Nonprofit or social enterprises

GLG recognize that both nonprofit and market-based solutions make big impact in the world. A for-profit organization must be mission driven at the very core of its work. Typically, enterprise-operating budgets have been under $500,000/year. For-profit organizations will be asked to disclose ownership structures.

2. Funding

The operating budgets of our Fellow organizations have varied from $1M up to $15M. The most important consideration is that there is an established financial structure to support scale. While we recognize that funding is always a concern, GLG look for organizations

beyond the point at which funding is a critical barrier to growth.

3. At an inflection point and pursuing scale

GLG look for organizations no longer in early development stages and whose leadership is ready to pursue ambitious growth. These organizations have proven the concept of their impact, and implemented their program at initial sites. During the two-year fellowship, participating organizations will be scaling significantly and seeking expertise to build mature operations and informed strategy.

4. Average three to five years in operation

5. Employ a minimum of five full time staff

6. Established leadership supporting key strategic planning and execution

7. CEO/Founder committed to leading through the Fellowship

The Fellow must understand GLG’s value, can articulate use cases, and be open to GLG and our Council Members as thought partners. They must be relentlessly focused on impact, excited about learning, and open to feedback. This requires that they has developed a team and habits that allows for strategic thinking in pursuit organizational growth.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Social Impact Fellowship 2018

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Social Impact Fellowship 2022 for Social Entrepreneurs (Funded)

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Social Impact Fellowship 2018 for Social Entrepreneurs (Funded)