Wow. After a strong finish to 2023 - thank you for your support! - I had the great pleasure of connecting (mostly via Zoom) with our amazing Fellows and their leadership coaches.
Wow. After a strong finish to 2023 - thank you for your support! - I had the great pleasure of connecting (mostly via Zoom) with our amazing Fellows and their leadership coaches. The work our nonprofit leaders do its truly inspiring - from empowering girls in India and Kenya to helping children with cancer in Ukraine to preventing child trafficking in Thailand to delivering medical and spiritual healing throughout the world …. You get the idea!
So we invite you to connect as well - in three ways:
Follow our Feel Good Fridays posts on social media https://linktr.ee/gratitudenetwork where we highlight a Fellow’s impact story every week. You’ll be inspired too!
Join a panel discussion to learn how social entrepreneurs make lasting impact - see our Events section below.
SAVE THE DATE - mark your calendars for our Leadership Summit - June 26, 8-10 am via Zoom - to hear an inspiring speaker, a poet and our top peer-selected Fellows present their visions for lasting change (and how Gratitude Network is helping). We’ll send a registration email in April. Hope to see you there!
With Gratitude,
Steve McCoy-Thompson
Executive Director
UNLEASHING HER: a conversation about empowering girls to lead, inspire and thrive.
Last month, as part of our February theme, UNLEASHING HER, we welcomed a panel of Gratitude Network alumni to discuss empowering girls to lead, inspire, and thrive.
🌐 With moderator Crystal Sprague, MSW, the Executive Director at Global G.L.O.W., our panel of experts comprised of 2 Gratitude Network Fellows working around the world:
📚 Kakenya Ntaiya, Founder & President of Kakenya's Dream in Kenya (2021 Fellow). Her organization empowers girls to end harmful traditional practices including child marriage and FGM. The program incorporates an all girls boarding school where they supported educationally as well as emotionally.
🚀 Martha Lidia Oxi Chuy, Co-Executive Director of MAIA Impact in Central America (2023 Fellow). MAIA unlocks and maximizes the potential of young women in Central America to lead transformational change.
> APRIL 23 8:30AM PT: GRATITUDE NETWORK FORUM - REGISTER NOW! > JUNE 26 8-10AM PT: LEADERSHIP SUMMIT - SAVE THE DATE
The GRATITUDE NETWORK FORUM is a 45min Zoom event highlighting the amazing work of Gratitude Network Fellows & Alums.
Our April 23 session, "PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS" will feature a panel of 3 social change-makers actively working to bridge the gap in career readiness. It will be moderated by Duane Wilson, Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships at Junior Achievement of Northern California.
Hosted at 8:30AM PT, this short event will jumpstart your day with inspiration as you meet impactful social change-makers.
🚀 Our Springboard Impact Program, currently in Pilot, will be a FREE, 4-month virtual program, combining virtual peer sessions and asynchronous learning modules!
📊 Each month has content designed to increase organizational development and position organizations for their next level of impact, specifically around measuring and communicating impact.
For more information, please feel free to email our Director of Programs, Morgan Banaszek: morgan@gratitude-network.org
Today we feature current 2023 Fellow Evelyne Mwandia's organization, Start A Library Trust, for this month's theme, 📚 "Turning Pages, Changing Lives" : Building Literacy Skills for All Children!
🏫 We are sharing not just one story, but thousands! In 2023, Start a Library opened 9 new libraries across Kenya, with over 6,000 learners impacted, allowing these students to develop literacy skills and access learning materials throughout their education! 🧑🎓
🚀 Help us to create more #FeelGoodFriday stories like the thousands of students with Start a Library Trust and to expand access to literature for children worldwide by LIKING 👍 and SHARING 🔊 our FeelGoodFriday posts on Social Media:
We're thrilled to share that our Founder, Randy Haykin, recently presented a TED-style talk at the OnePlanet Summit, and we can't wait for you to check it out! 🎙️✨
Support Gratitude Network & the amazing work of our Fellows by considering a monthly donation.
All the work we are doing, with our Fellows and the expansion of our programs, takes time and commitment day after day. A way you can show your continued support all year long is to make a monthly donation. Monthly donations are a true win-win:
It allows you to spread your commitment across the year making it more manageable.
It offers us a steady longer lasting continued support so that we can run smoothly throughout the year.
