We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits 261. Solving the Leadership Crisis + The Mission of Global Citizen Year - Abby Falik
Meet Abby. She’s a social entrepreneur and founder of Global Citizen Year, an organization reimagining the transition into adulthood by facilitating a yearlong immersion experience abroad for high school graduates. By equipping young leaders with empathy, agency & a global perspective, they’re changing the inputs into higher education in order to dramatically improve the outcomes of the world. Our minds were officially blown (in a great way!)🤯🌏👏
💡Learn:
- The current leadership crisis
- Why good leaders need unrestricted capital to try stuff
- Partnership & approach ideas to co-leadership
- The mission of Global Citizen Year
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
- Abby’s story and journey to where she is today (2:30)
- The current leadership crisis (5:30)
- Abby’s first international experience (11:00)
- Overview of Global Citizen Year (13:00)
- Story of a Program Alumni (20:00)
- Co-leadership Approach (23:00)
- The story of Global Citizen Year’s $12M grant from MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, the largest gift in the organization’s history (32:00)
- A powerful moment of philanthropy (35:00)
- Abby’s One Good Thing: If the path is clear, you’re on someone else’s. (37:00)
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