The Gratitude Awards
Recognize outstanding leadership, potential for scale and innovation in solving humanity’s greatest problems.
What is the Gratitude Award?
Awardees receive a 1-year program of intense mentoring and coaching to help them scale their organization to achieve results they only dreamed of.
All Gratitude Awardees:
- Are matched with a highly-skilled and experienced strategic coach for the year
- Are matched with mentors to help them meet the goals they establish with their coach
- Meet bi-monthly by video to work with their fellow Awardees and the Gratitude Network team to together solve specific issues that their organization is facing
- Have the opportunity to attend the Gratitude Network’s annual CEO Summit – a multi-day learning and collaboration event
- Are given visibility on The Gratitude Network website, Facebook page, email newsletter and various live events
- Remain a valued member of the Gratitude Network Alumni and family — for future events and ongoing activities
“…I just have to say how excited I am after meeting with Scott for the first time today in San Francisco. It was really important to me that our first meeting be in person, so I flew up today and had the chance to connect with him for a couple hours. They were the most valuable couple hours I’ve experienced in a very long time. I am so grateful for his insights, time, and willingness to help me and WIT.
Thank you for this incredible opportunity!”
“I am deeply grateful for the ongoing support of the network of professionals you have brought together to support good in the world. The wisdom of my coach, Renee Cooper, and our Mentor and strategic consultant, Di Cullen, has been profound. I started leading a non-profit after 25 years in school counseling and psychology, without any training in business practices. I now feel like I’m getting a crash course in my MBA and learning all of the key distinctions that make a business succeed. I bow to you all with appreciation!”
“We are poised to enter an aggressive growth phase, growing from delivering direct services for approximately 900 patients (screening 900 and delivering interventions to 300) in San Francisco’s Bayview district, to screening 300,000 patients nationwide over the next three years.”
“Thank you…it was inspiring to connect …(and) learn about the expertise, initiatives, and ventures brought together by The Gratitude Network. It’s an honor to be part of and I look forward to working with you this year!”
Eligibility for a Gratitude Award
Social impact mission dealing with children and/or youth in one of these areas:
- Education such as school systems, training of teachers, education technology, and early childhood programs as well as how/ what children learn at school or outside of the classroom (e.g. after-school or summer programs)
- Health and Wellbeing such as addressing children’s basic needs, including poverty alleviation, nutrition, water, safe shelter, disease prevention, mental health, and social-emotional health
- Children’s Rights such as protecting children and families from abuse, exploitation, trafficking, incarceration, and other harm, as well as other advocacy
Non-profits and for-profit organizations are eligible
Organizations Ready to Scale
You have:
- A completed product/service
- customers
- initial funding already completed
- business model being tested or already proven
Selection Criteria:
An elite panel of judges, including respected leaders from the investor, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and relevant sector perspectives will review all the applications from around the world. Applications are evaluated on:
- A strong fit with the MISSION to impact children and youth, particularly the world’s most vulnerable children
- Amazing LEADERSHIP TEAM
- INNOVATIVE product/service, business model, or approach
- Potential to IMPACT many children, adolescents, teachers, and/or schools
- Seeking to and ready to SCALE