The Gratitude Awards
The Gratitude Awards Program recognize outstanding leadership, potential for scale and innovation in solving humanity’s greatest problems.
What is The Gratitude Network Award?
The Awards are a year-long program individually tailored to your social enterprise and leadership situation.
All awardees:
- Are matched with a highly-skilled/experienced strategic coach, who will be your guide throughout the year and meet monthly with you.
- Are matched throughout the year with relevant mentors to assist you in meeting the goals you establish with your coach. Our mentor database contains over 40 highly qualified mentors who can work with you in range of business-building areas.
- Become a part of our Founders Peer group. These cohorts meet quarterly by video meeting, and are facilitated by the Gratitude Network. Peers work together to solve specific business issues that your business may be facing.
- Are referred, as appropriate, to possible funding sources during the second half of your award year. Late in 2017, Gratitude Network will be releasing a new program for funding “match-making” for both non-profit and for-profit organizations.
- Receive a Gratitude Network toolkit, customized for your cohort, of reading materials, resources, and websites that will aid you in your success.
- Are given visibility on The Gratitude Network website, Facebook page, email newsletter and various live events.
- And after your award year, remain a valued member of the Gratitude Network Alumni and family —for future events and ongoing activities.
“Hi Randy I will write more later, but 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 you, Randy, and 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 the Gratitude Awards:
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
“Scale” stage company:
- completed product/service
- customers
- initial funding already completed
- business model being tested or already proven
Selection Criteria:
- Strong fit with the MISSION to impact children and youth, particularly the world’s most vulnerable children
- Extraordinary LEADERSHIP TEAM
- INNOVATIVE product/service, business model, or approach
- Potential to IMPACT many children, adolescents, teachers, and/or schools
- Organization seeking to SCALE an already existing product/service and business model
- Scaleable BUSINESS MODEL leading to sustainable or profitable organization