{"id":37461,"date":"2016-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glg.tempsite.space\/news\/glg-announces-six-2016-social-impact-fellows-third-class-of-fellows-features-leading-innovators-nonprofits\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:40:35","slug":"glg-announces-six-2016-social-impact-fellows-third-class-of-fellows-features-leading-innovators-nonprofits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/news\/glg-announces-six-2016-social-impact-fellows-third-class-of-fellows-features-leading-innovators-nonprofits\/","title":{"rendered":"GLG Announces Six 2016 Social Impact Fellows; Third Class of Fellows Features Leading Innovators &#038; Nonprofits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fellows Receive Unlimited Access to GLG\u2019s Learning Platform: 500,000+ Members and Potential Mentors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fellows Chosen from 500 Nonprofit and Social Enterprise Applicants; Focus Areas Include: Healthcare, Water &amp; Sanitation, Veterans Empowerment, Vocational Education, and Data Science for Social Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, New York; October 24, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.) today announced its third class of Social Impact Fellows (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glgsocialimpact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GLGSocialImpact.com<\/a>), giving six rising social innovators and their organizations access to the world\u2019s leading platform for expertise, professional learning, and mentorship. The 2016 Fellows and their organizations tackle a range of social challenges around the world \u2013 from water and sanitation to veteran support and rehabilitation in the U.S. to vocational education in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the three years since we launched the Social Impact Fellowship, we\u2019ve come to understand the unique learning needs of social innovators and how we can meet them,\u201d said\u00a0<b>GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand<\/b>. \u201cAs we strengthen our partnership with our Fellows, they continue to help us achieve GLG\u2019s mission to transform the way top professionals share expertise and learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning today with a two-day convening in New York City, the 2016 class joins GLG\u2019s community of leading innovators, investors, business leaders, entrepreneurs, corporations, and professional services firms, who learn every day from GLG\u2019s membership of top academics and policy specialists, C-suite executives, scientists, former public sector officials, and other professional leaders. Fellows and their teams will have unlimited access to GLG\u2019s 500,000 Network Members, at no cost, as they work to solve their toughest organizational challenges and create meaningful social impact.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 GLG Fellows are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Barbara Bush<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Co-Founder &amp; CEO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ghcorps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Global Health Corps<\/a>; New York, New York (global health);<\/li>\n<li><b>Minhaj Chowdhury<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Co-Founder &amp; CEO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drinkwellsystems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Drinkwell<\/a>; West Bengal, India (water &amp; sanitation);<\/li>\n<li><b>Krista Donaldson<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 CEO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/d-rev.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D-Rev<\/a>; San Francisco, California (healthcare technologies);<\/li>\n<li><b>Eric Liu<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Co-Founder &amp; U.S. Executive Director,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayesimpact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bayes Impact<\/a>; San Francisco California (data solutions for social good);<\/li>\n<li><b>Misan Rewane<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Co-Founder &amp; CEO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/waveacademies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Wave Academies<\/a>; Lagos, Nigeria (youth unemployment)<\/li>\n<li><b>Jake Wood<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Co-Founder &amp; CEO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teamrubiconusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Team Rubicon<\/a>; Los Angeles, California (veterans empowerment &amp; disaster relief).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fellow bios and organization overviews are available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glgsocialimpact.com\/fellows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GLGSocialImpact.com\/fellows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 500 leading early-stage and growing nonprofits and social enterprise organizations applied for this year\u2019s Fellowships. The competitive selection process was based on an analysis of the missions and models of the applicant organizations, and how well GLG\u2019s resources could help them improve efficacy and achieve impact at key moments in their growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored to welcome the 2016 Fellows and we\u2019re incredibly excited about this new class,\u201d said\u00a0<b>GLG Social Impact Director Jen Field<\/b>. \u201cThis year, we are working with organizations focused on new geographic regions and issues, like water and sanitation in India and Bangladesh, and using big data solutions to address global social problems. We are also extending the Fellowship to two years for all new and existing Fellows to make our partnerships even more impactful and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GLG launched its Social Impact Fellowship in 2014 to extend the benefits of GLG\u2019s learning model to social sector leaders who could best take advantage of it. In its first two years, GLG members worked with Fellows taking on critical social challenges, including empowerment of women and girls in Africa, economic mobility for low-income families across the U.S., and sustainable home design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About GLG \/ Gerson Lehrman Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GLG is the world\u2019s leading platform for professional learning. Business leaders, investors, consultants, social entrepreneurs, and other top professionals rely on GLG to learn in short- and long-term engagements from more than 500,000 members and other experts. Clients partner with GLG to address their most complex strategic challenges, make better business decisions, and advance their careers through conversations, mentorships, small group convenings, surveys, and other interactions\u2014all within a rigorous compliance framework. Global, technology-driven, and nimble, GLG\u2019s approximately 1,200 employees work in 22 offices in 12 countries. For more information visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/\">www.GLG.it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:press@glgroup.com\">press@glgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellows Receive Unlimited Access to GLG\u2019s Learning Platform: 500,000+ Members and Potential Mentors Fellows Chosen from 500 Nonprofit and Social Enterprise Applicants; Focus Areas Include: Healthcare, Water &amp; Sanitation, Veterans Empowerment, Vocational Education, and Data Science for Social Good New York, New York; October 24, 2016\u00a0\u2014 GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.) today announced its third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}