GLOBAL POTENTIAL

Global Potential (GP) empowers high potential urban youth from low-income communities around the world to energize each other through education, international exchange, service-based learning, community development, and advocacy work which impacts their community and the global community. Founded in 2007, GP has developed a holistic model which includes skills development, service-based learning, community service, college readiness training, and international education.

The first three paid staff we hired in 2010 were alumni of our program, and now in 2020 our entire staff team of seven are all alumni. Our Chairman and more than half of our Board of Directors are also alumni. In addition to our legion of volunteers, we hope to continue expanding the number of young leaders with whom we work and the number of communities with whom we partner to provide meaningful service-learning opportunities to our participants.

The ability to dedicate more time to both program development and fundraising will allow us to more effectively demonstrate our programmatic impact while expanding our existing network of individual, corporate, foundation and government supporters and partners. With continued and consistent funding, our ability to expand into more schools and communities in New York City will positively affect more low-income youth and enable us to help more communities abroad.

Our program delivery model relies largely on volunteers, which allows us to grow with limited amounts of funding. However, as we seek to provide a more rigorous curriculum, offer more intensive psycho-social support for our students and improve the liaison relationships with our partner schools, it is imperative that we raise funds for modest increases in paid professional staff.

Our programmatic model is scalable and the demand for our services does not show signs of abating. The success that GP has demonstrated during our first years in operation provides evidence that our organizational capacities are sufficient to sustain our existing operations while we expand to serve more young adults and schools in New York City and other cities in the United States.

Our Board of Directors brings a wealth of experience and knowledge from both the public and private sector which allows us to develop plans for sustainable growth.

Since our inception in 2007, our program has been replicated in Boston in 2010 and in Paris, France in 2012. In addition, our program has served more than 24,738 people in rural communities abroad directly and another 31,400 indirectly. We have also held 15 youth conferences in 4 different countries with 1,321 youth participating from over 80 inner-cities and rural village communities. We also have a 100% high school graduation rate for our youth participants, with nearly 86% entering college and 50% of those being the first in their families to do so.

We are always looking to increase our donor-base and raise more money so we can reach more communities within the US and abroad.