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- EIN 13-3424419
- (212) 689-1165
- 462 7th Avenue 13th Floor New York NY 10018-7430 USA
- www.echoinggreen.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid
Mission: Echoing green unleashes next generation talent to solve the world's biggest problems. Since our founding almost 30 years ago by the private equity firm, general atlantic, we have focused our efforts on identifying and funding promising social entrepreneurs to help them launch innovative social change organizations around the world. Since its inception, echoing green has invested in nearly 500 social entrepreneurs who work to solve deeply-rooted problems in the world through their innovative ideas. Among the organizations we helped launch include teach for america, city year, genocide intervention network, the seed school, global fund for children and hundreds of others. We also work to build a robust ecosystem of changemaking by supporting young people to select careers in social change, working with donors to approach their philanthropy in an engaged manner and providing data that builds our field.
Programs: Fellowship and alumni program - the echoing green fellowship program focuses on identifying and funding promising social entrepreneurs to help them launch innovative social change organizations worldwide. We've invested close to $30 million in seed funding to nearly 500 social entrepreneurs who work to solve deep-rooted problems in the world through their innovative ideas. Through our two-year echoing green fellowship program, we provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity. We offer grants of up to $90,000, a health insurance reimbursement stipend, a yearly professional development stipend, access to conferences led by organizational development experts, access to technical support and pro bono partnerships to help grow your organization and a community of like-minded social entrepreneurs and public service leaders, including the echoing green network of nearly 500 alumni working all over the world.
impact investing - the impact investing program seeks to unleash next generation talent critical to the impact investment market's success by making it easier for emerging social entrepreneurs and funders to interact and partner. Activities include sharing our knowledge and data on the state of emerging social innovation, elevating the profile of global social entrepreneurs in key impact investment communities by highlighting both challenges and best practices in early stage funding and support partnerships. Through regional site visits and thought leadership, we are spreading urgency around this lack of appropriate capital, and are encouraging others to join us and also provide follow-on investment. In addition, we are piloting an innovative model of talent development and investment readiness support for fellows who are seeking or receiving investment by curating and activating resources, tools and experts to help them get investment ready and engaging them with our global network of early stage impact investors.
direct impact - an experiential board leadership program that prepares mid-level corporate professionals for board leadership. The program is built on four key learning objectives: leadership development, strategic governance, philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. Upon completion, individuals are eligible to be matched with echoing green fellows to serve on their board.
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