🌍 A Journey of Gratitude: Some leaders teach children to fit the mold. Others build a world where the mold bends to fit every child.
Meet Susan Osterhoff, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Project Commotion and a 2020 Gratitude Network Fellow. ✨
Susan and a friend saw a truth too many children who learn differently were up against: a world of inequitable access, built without them in mind. Instead of accepting that reality, they chose to build something new.
Project Commotion was born from a powerful belief—that purposeful play, movement, and community relationships unlock development in every child, no matter how they learn. Through hands-on programming and genuine partnership with families and educators, Project Commotion strengthens connections that last.
Today, Susan leads an organization reaching twice as many children, teachers, and parents as it did in 2020—with staff capacity doubled and budget more than doubled. Her work reminds us that inclusion isn’t a one-time fix. It’s a daily commitment to ensuring every child gets to move, play, and belong.
🌱 IT’S OFFICIAL: WE’RE ROOTED & RISING. This October 14–16, the Gratitude Network Summit returns to San Francisco’s Mission District — and this year’s theme says exactly what we’re here to do: Rooted & Rising: Cultivate. Collaborate. Lead. 🌱 Cultivate — renew your purpose, deepen your roots 🤝 Collaborate — build peer bonds across borders 🚀 Lead — sharpen your tools, scale your impact 100+ social impact leaders. Three days. One community. 🎟️ Tickets are open now — gratitude-network.org/2026-gratitude-network-summit/ #RootedAndRising#GNSummit2026#GratitudeNetwork... See MoreSee Less
Gratitude Network is in the thick of searching for our next Executive Director — and applications are moving fast, reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in.
Here’s what’s ahead for Gratitude Network: more nonprofits served, new programs, a global alumni community we’re working to activate like never before 🌍, and a funding model built to last.
The person who takes this on needs range — big-picture strategist one moment, hands-on teammate the next. Someone who builds relationships like it’s second nature, tells our story with heart, and leads with the same generosity we ask of our Fellows. ✨
Based anywhere in the US, with travel built into the role.
⏳ Rolling admissions mean timing matters — get your application in early!
Treehouse Partners is running point on this search for us.
🌱 Gratitude Network is hiring our next Executive Director
We’re entering an exciting new chapter — growing to serve more NGOs, expanding our programs, activating a more connected global alumni network 🌍, and building a more sustainable way to fund it all. We need someone who can hold that big vision and still show up, person to person, the way this community always has for each other. A builder. A connector. A storyteller. Someone globally minded who believes in leaders the way we believe in ours. ✨ This is a remote role, open to candidates anywhere in the United States (domestic and international travel required). We’ve partnered with Treehouse Partners on this search.
Over the past two months, 11 incredible youth-serving organizations came together to sharpen their fundraising strategy — using AI to work smarter, utilizing frameworks for stewardship and prospect tracking, creating communication guidelines, implementing planning tools, and leveling up grant writing, relationship building, and major gifts.
After this course, 100% of participants felt more confident and better prepared to fundraise for their organizations
Huge congrats to our Springboard cohort: Rosie the Riveter Trust, COROAT, Milaan Foundation, Casa Gallina, Self-eSTEM, Washington Urban Debate League, POLYCOM GIRLS, Act To Change, ConnectED / Conectando Educación, Ready for Reading, and PAUTA. Your energy and openness to dig into your own fundraising strategies made this cohort what it was.
And a huge thank you to Shoshana Grossman-Crist and Social Impact Compass for facilitating with such clarity, warmth, and expertise from start to finish.
🌱 A new chapter for Gratitude Network Friends — big news: after two incredible years, Lauren Reilly has stepped down as our Executive Director (she’s staying close as a Board member — this isn’t goodbye 💛).
That means we’re on the hunt for our next leader — someone to help carry GN into what’s next: more NGOs served, more programs, a more connected global alumni network 🌍, and a more sustainable way to fund it all.
We need someone who can hold that big vision and still show up, person to person, the way our community always has for each other. A builder. A connector. A storyteller. Someone globally minded who believes in leaders the way we believe in ours. ✨
We’ve partnered with Treehouse Partners on this search and applications will go through their team.
One question hung over Segal 2026, and it’s stayed with us since Nairobi:
“What, apart from funding, can a funder offer the next generation of leaders?”
So much of the week answered it anyway. In Power in Connection, Isabelle Kamariza spoke about building Solid’Africa through years of being told it would fail. The next day, a stage full of leaders imagined how the next beat looks and feels for their own communities; not in the abstract, but for the people they serve.
The gap isn’t ambition; the continent’s leaders have that in abundance. It’s everything that surrounds the money: the tools to scale, the peers who’ve walked it, the reassurance that you’re not carrying it alone. That’s the question we’re building to answer at Gratitude Network: a curriculum that helps leaders scale their organizations, together rather than alone.
🌍 A Journey of Gratitude: Some leaders teach children to fit the mold. Others build a world where the mold bends to fit every child.
Meet Susan Osterhoff, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Project Commotion and a 2020 Gratitude Network Fellow. ✨
Susan and a friend saw a truth too many children who learn differently were up against: a world of inequitable access, built without them in mind. Instead of accepting that reality, they chose to build something new.
Project Commotion was born from a powerful belief—that purposeful play, movement, and community relationships unlock development in every child, no matter how they learn. Through hands-on programming and genuine partnership with families and educators, Project Commotion strengthens connections that last.
Today, Susan leads an organization reaching twice as many children, teachers, and parents as it did in 2020—with staff capacity doubled and budget more than doubled. Her work reminds us that inclusion isn’t a one-time fix. It’s a daily commitment to ensuring every child gets to move, play, and belong.
🎥 Watch Susan’s Journey of Gratitude interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3INkXQR_7g
👉 Learn about other Gratitude Network Fellows: gratitude-network.org/who-we-support
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🌱 IT’S OFFICIAL: WE’RE ROOTED & RISING.
This October 14–16, the Gratitude Network Summit returns to San Francisco’s Mission District — and this year’s theme says exactly what we’re here to do: Rooted & Rising: Cultivate. Collaborate. Lead.
🌱 Cultivate — renew your purpose, deepen your roots
🤝 Collaborate — build peer bonds across borders
🚀 Lead — sharpen your tools, scale your impact
100+ social impact leaders. Three days. One community.
🎟️ Tickets are open now — gratitude-network.org/2026-gratitude-network-summit/
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🌱 The clock’s ticking on a big opportunity!
Gratitude Network is in the thick of searching for our next Executive Director — and applications are moving fast, reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in.
Here’s what’s ahead for Gratitude Network: more nonprofits served, new programs, a global alumni community we’re working to activate like never before 🌍, and a funding model built to last.
The person who takes this on needs range — big-picture strategist one moment, hands-on teammate the next. Someone who builds relationships like it’s second nature, tells our story with heart, and leads with the same generosity we ask of our Fellows. ✨
Based anywhere in the US, with travel built into the role.
⏳ Rolling admissions mean timing matters — get your application in early!
Treehouse Partners is running point on this search for us.
📄 Full details and how to apply: gratitude-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Executive_Director_JD_Gratitude_Network_2026.pdf
Know a builder, a connector, someone who’d be perfect for this? Referrals go a long way, please send them our way. 🙌
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🌱 Gratitude Network is hiring our next Executive Director
We’re entering an exciting new chapter — growing to serve more NGOs, expanding our programs, activating a more connected global alumni network 🌍, and building a more sustainable way to fund it all.
We need someone who can hold that big vision and still show up, person to person, the way this community always has for each other. A builder. A connector. A storyteller. Someone globally minded who believes in leaders the way we believe in ours. ✨
This is a remote role, open to candidates anywhere in the United States (domestic and international travel required).
We’ve partnered with Treehouse Partners on this search.
📄 Read the full JD here: gratitude-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Executive_Director_JD_Gratitude_Network_2026.pdf
Know someone who fits? We’d love an introduction — referrals matter enormously in searches like this. 🙌
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🎉 Springboard Fundraising has officially wrapped!
Over the past two months, 11 incredible youth-serving organizations came together to sharpen their fundraising strategy — using AI to work smarter, utilizing frameworks for stewardship and prospect tracking, creating communication guidelines, implementing planning tools, and leveling up grant writing, relationship building, and major gifts.
After this course, 100% of participants felt more confident and better prepared to fundraise for their organizations
Huge congrats to our Springboard cohort: Rosie the Riveter Trust, COROAT, Milaan Foundation, Casa Gallina, Self-eSTEM, Washington Urban Debate League, POLYCOM GIRLS, Act To Change, ConnectED / Conectando Educación, Ready for Reading, and PAUTA. Your energy and openness to dig into your own fundraising strategies made this cohort what it was.
And a huge thank you to Shoshana Grossman-Crist and Social Impact Compass for facilitating with such clarity, warmth, and expertise from start to finish.
Onward to bolder fundraising strategies! 🚀
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🌱 A new chapter for Gratitude Network
Friends — big news: after two incredible years, Lauren Reilly has stepped down as our Executive Director (she’s staying close as a Board member — this isn’t goodbye 💛).
That means we’re on the hunt for our next leader — someone to help carry GN into what’s next: more NGOs served, more programs, a more connected global alumni network 🌍, and a more sustainable way to fund it all.
We need someone who can hold that big vision and still show up, person to person, the way our community always has for each other. A builder. A connector. A storyteller. Someone globally minded who believes in leaders the way we believe in ours. ✨
We’ve partnered with Treehouse Partners on this search and applications will go through their team.
📄 Read the full JD here: gratitude-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Executive_Director_JD_Gratitude_Network_2026.pdf
Know someone who fits? We’d love an introduction — referrals matter enormously. 🙌
Thank you for being part of this community — we couldn’t do any of this without you. 🙏
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One question hung over Segal 2026, and it’s stayed with us since Nairobi:
“What, apart from funding, can a funder offer the next generation of leaders?”
So much of the week answered it anyway. In Power in Connection, Isabelle Kamariza spoke about building Solid’Africa through years of being told it would fail. The next day, a stage full of leaders imagined how the next beat looks and feels for their own communities; not in the abstract, but for the people they serve.
The gap isn’t ambition; the continent’s leaders have that in abundance. It’s everything that surrounds the money: the tools to scale, the peers who’ve walked it, the reassurance that you’re not carrying it alone. That’s the question we’re building to answer at Gratitude Network: a curriculum that helps leaders scale their organizations, together rather than alone.
The best answers were already in the room, running the organizations we came to Nairobi to learn from.
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