Global Citizen Year Incorporated

Programs: The past year has been an exciting time of growth and progress, and were thrilled to share the following highlights: (1) for the second consecutive year, we drove unprecedented demand for the global citizen year fellowship. The 110 fellows in our 2016-17 cohort composed the largest class in global citizen years history, 25% greater than the prior year and tenfold growth over the inaugural group in 2010. These fellows experienced transformative years in brazil, ecuador, india, and senegal, and developed global perspective, passion, and purpose that have launched their journey as leaders and global citizens. Meanwhile, our continued investments in on-the-ground recruitment and digital engagement helped us recruit the largest, most racially diverse cohort in global citizen year history. Our 2017-18 cohort of 135 fellows represents a second consecutive year of ~25% growth and was carefully selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants (54% growth). (2) we refined our best-in-class program to provide an even stronger fellow experience. Our core fellowship is driving strong results and our 570 alumni are thriving in college and early careers. Ninety-five percent of all alumni and 91 percent of alumni from low-income backgrounds are persisting in or have graduated from college, 95 percent say that global citizen year was the best preparation they could have had for college, and 91 percent return proficient in a foreign language. (3) we are forging innovative partnerships with colleges, high schools, and college access programs to better integrate the bridge year into students educational trajectories. We launched a high school leadership council composed of heads of school and superintendents who are committed to making the bridge year a new rite of passage in their schools, communities, and american society more broadly. We expanded our partnership with tufts university via its 1+4 bridge year program and developed a new admissions partnership with lafayette college, and we will continue to experiment with innovative partnership models in the year ahead. (4) we drove a national conversation on the need to build a new leadership pipeline that reflects our nations diversity. In 2016-17, global citizen year and founder/ceo abby falik were selected to speak at the nantucket project, sxswedu, and the classy collaborative, among other forums. Abbys writing has been featured on the development set, bright reads, and linkedin pulse, and on reid hoffmans masters of scale, the number one business podcast of 2017.