Accelerating Social Change Leadership

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Recruiting Organization: Panorama

Panorama Global is pleased to invite applications for our second cohort of the Accelerating Social Change Leadership Initiative. Supported by the Phillips Foundation, the Accelerating Social Change Leadership Initiative is a multidisciplinary program that supports social change entrepreneurs to efficiently launch projects and campaigns, to scale impact and thought leadership, and to deepen their ability to innovate and collaborate.

Our Accelerating Social Change Leadership Offerings:

• Strategic Counsel: Senior Panorama leaders with extensive social entrepreneurship experience will provide tailored strategic counsel for early-stage social change leaders (see Appendix A for more about Panorama and leadership bios). Each three-month strategic counsel package will include a series of 4-6 customized sessions based on the needs and aspirations of each participant.
• Peer Learning Communities: We will facilitate and curate a peer-learning cohort for participants to deepen collaboration with each other and sharpen their thinking as they refine and/or launch social ventures. Leaders will have the space to share and learn good practices, workshop new ideas and challenges, develop wellness and resilience practices, and acquire new and deeper knowledge in a facilitated and confidential environment.
• Getting Started Guide and Curriculum: Ongoing learning and reflections from these inaugural cohorts, as well as from our regular engagement with social change leaders through collaborative funds and fiscal sponsorships, will inform two key knowledge products designed for broader impact - a Getting Started Guide as a start-up resource for social entrepreneurs and a more comprehensive curriculum on foundational topics.

Qualifying candidates for the second Accelerating Social Change Leadership cohort:

• Are idea or early-stage social entrepreneurs in years 0-5 of launching a social change initiative or organization.
• Are leading systems change work. We define "systems change" as the pursuit of long-term transformation through addressing the root causes of issues (rather than symptoms). Solutions are designed to be sustainable and are aimed at reshaping the system for the benefit of the collective, rather than seeking short-term solutions for the individual.
• Face systemic barriers and/or have lived experience with the issue they are trying to address. This can include discrimination based on background or identity, systemic or social oppression, and/or lived experience with trauma or violence.
• Are running initiatives or organizations that have operations or missions specific to the United States (can be international but must need support navigating the U.S. social impact space).
• Can commit to attending strategic counsel sessions (~seven hours over three months) and peer learning communities (~12 hours over six months).

Do you meet the above criteria and are interested in applying? Here are the next steps:

• Fill out our application form here or visit the below link to apply

• There are 4 sections in this form: Basic Information, Initiative Details, Demographic Information, and Meeting Logistics, with 28 questions total. It will take you about 25 minutes to fill out.

• After we review your application, we will follow up with you over email to confirm whether you have been accepted into the cohort or to ask any clarifying questions.

Questions?

Contact ascl@panoramaglobal.org with any questions or for further information.

Appendix A:

About Panorama

Panorama is a platform for social change, offering a unique value proposition with its systems-change thinking and nonprofit shared capacity and infrastructure support. We understand how social problems are interconnected and how they require multi-sectoral and scalable solutions combined with diverse partnership models, services, tools, and resources. We work with partners under the shared vision that pressing social issues can be addressed more quickly, effectively, and sustainably through the inclusive lens of collaboration than the narrow mindset of competition. We bring together entrepreneurs, nonprofits, multilaterals, foundations, and private sector actors - including through collaboratives, donor funds, fiscal sponsorship, secretariat support - in order to accelerate social change on entrenched or neglected issues.

Today, more than 50 diverse social change initiatives are sponsored by or fully implemented by Panorama Global. Through these programs and partnerships, we have deep familiarity and trust-based relationships with hundreds of social change leaders and organizations. They include approximately 150 grantee partners of our collaborative funds, almost 40 fiscally sponsored projects, campaigns, organizations and networks around the world, and more than 100 organizations that received MacKenzie Scott grants which participate in our peer-learning communities. Through these interactions, we regularly learn about and engage with the aspirations, needs and challenges of emerging and more seasoned leaders at different stages of their social change ventures. 

Bios of Senior Panorama Leaders providing strategic counsel

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is the founder and CEO of The Panorama Group and Co-Founder of Pandemic Action Network. Her vision is to create action-oriented partnerships, influence decision-makers, and facilitate conversations that lead to meaningful collaboration and change for people and planet.

With over 20 years of experience in philanthropy, global advocacy, resource mobilization, global health, and coalition-building, Gabrielle has become a leading voice on catalytic philanthropy, women’s leadership, and emergency preparedness and response.

Gabrielle created Panorama as a platform for social change that partners with visionary leaders and organizations to solve pressing global problems. Since its founding in 2017, Panorama has managed nearly $40M through strategic partnerships, collaborative funds, and fiscal sponsorships and brought much-needed attention and investment on a range of underfunded areas, including pandemic preparedness, human rights, gender parity, and adolescent mental health.

As Co-Founder of the Pandemic Action Network, Gabrielle brings decades of experience in building coalitions across sectors and borders to the 100+ member organization. Prior to founding Panorama, Gabrielle held leadership positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development, and served as a speechwriter for President Clinton at The White House. She serves as Board President of American Friends of United for Global Health, and holds an M.A. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a B.A. from American University.

Bradley Myles serves as Senior Advisor-Innovation at Panorama Global where he stewards external partnerships, works closely with a network of social entrepreneurs, and develops creative strategies and solutions in support of Panorama’s social impact goals as a platform for social change.

Prior to joining Panorama, Bradley served as the CEO of Polaris, building, growing, and leading one of the prominent anti-trafficking organizations in the United States for 15 years. When he joined the organization’s founding team in 2004, he researched local human trafficking markets, assisted survivors, and worked with federal and local law enforcement in Washington, DC to establish and coordinate one of the nation’s first multi-disciplinary task forces on human trafficking. Bradley helped envision and launched the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline at Polaris, a 24/7 live operation that has now identified and responded to more than 70,000 cases of human trafficking nationwide. The United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, and other countries have now replicated this national hotline and data hub model. Under his leadership as CEO from 2010 to 2019, Polaris tripled in size and grew to an annual budget of $13 million with 130 staff members.

Bradley has served as an advisor, coach, and technical subject matter expert on human trafficking, gender-based violence, the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), and social entrepreneurship to multiple government and non-government organizations in the anti-trafficking field.

Bradley holds degrees in Psychology and Political Science from Stanford University, where he also completed the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders (EPNL) through the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a 2017 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

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