GLG Social Impact Fellowship

The Fellowship at 10

For the past decade, GLG’s Social Impact Fellowship has provided nearly 100 nonprofits and social enterprises with pro bono partnerships with GLG, including access to the full suite of GLG product offerings and the support of hands-on GLG client service teams. 

Together, we’ve advanced research and development into lifesaving technologies, helped refugees build new lives, launched innovative responses to public health emergencies, empowered communities to navigate the changing environment, and more.

We continue to support our remaining active Fellows and global alumni community with on-demand access to GLG’s insight network.

Stories of Impact

GLG Network Members travel to Rwanda to improve health and safety of rural families.

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Fellows use GLG to enhance first response during COVID-19 pandemic.

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GLG supports vital health coaching throughout 10-year partnership.

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Fellow working to reduce recidivism gets UX/UI feedback from GLG Network Members.

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GLG Network Members help get surplus medicine to those who need it.

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Fellows work with GLG Network Members to protect the environment.

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GLG Network Members help promote ethical and accurate journalism in the world’s least-covered regions.

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Fellows promote mental health awareness and treatment around the world.

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GLG helps Fellow expand health skills training to Indonesia.

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Our Global Community

Since 2014, GLG has welcomed nearly 100 exceptional social sector organizations to our global community.

EarthEnable

EarthEnable develops custom earthen floors for homes in Rwanda and Uganda to eliminate health issues commonly caused by dirt floors – such as asthma, diarrhea, and malnutrition – at a cost that is 75% cheaper than installing concrete alternatives. Over the last five years, GLG has facilitated four site visits by three Network Members to help the EarthEnable team improve the chemistry, durability, and carbon efficiency of their flooring solution.

“This might be one of the most impactful weeks of EarthEnable’s history. [Graham’s help] has taken us from a company that was delivering a really good product to a really great product.”

Gayatri Datar | Co-Founder & CEO, EarthEnable | 2018 Fellow | on the site visit by GLG Network Member Graham Wright

COVID-19

COVID-19 impacted the work of every organization in the world. During this time of rapid change and uncertainty, GLG Network Members provided guidance and clarity to help Fellows adapt – including existing organizations that played a critical role in first response and new organizations created at the onset of the pandemic. 

Stop COVID-19 Special Operations Group (SOG) formed in 2020 to reduce the clinical and social impact of COVID-19 through research, advocacy, and direct aid. GLG connected SOG with those most impacted by the crisis – including frontline healthcare workers, food pantry managers, and mental health professionals – so they could better understand unique perspectives on the pandemic and its impacts.

Sostento helps frontline health workers prepare for public health emergencies. Early in the pandemic, the organization turned to GLG technology experts to launch an emergency COVID-19 hotline, which ultimately fielded more than 120,000 urgent calls.

Nexleaf Analytics enables data-driven solutions to global challenges, including vaccine delivery. GLG Network Members helped Nexleaf research cold storage supply chains as they worked to distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably and safely.

Simprints creates safe, ethical, and inclusive biometric technology so millions without formal IDs can access essential services. To optimize their technology during the early days of the pandemic, Simprints spoke with GLG Network Members to gain insight on the COVID-19 contact tracing methods used by governments around the globe.

City Health Works

GLG has supported City Health Works since its earliest days, in 2014, when the organization built a neighborhood-based workforce of health coaches to extend the reach of primary care into patients’ homes. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization expanded to include a medical provider organization and rebranded itself as CHW. In 2022, the organization’s medical practice was acquired by Oak Street, while its original health coaching model was acquired by Diverge Health. We’ve supported Founder Manmeet Kaur and her team through it all – helping them deliver exceptional health coaching, overcome new challenges, and meet increasing demand.

“Over the past decade, GLG has provided continual, pivotal support as I have navigated City Health Works through major industry shifts and, most significantly, through the dizzyingly challenging onset of the pandemic in New York… On a personal level, they have provided me with a unique opportunity to continuously advance my abilities and confidence as a leader.”

Manmeet Kaur | Founder & CEO, CHW Cares | 2014 Fellow

Recidiviz

Recidiviz uses data-informed tools to reduce incarceration in the U.S. by helping criminal justice leaders and agencies develop real-time pictures of their systems, diagnose issues, and drive meaningful change.

  • The Project: Recidiviz was developing and refining products to help parole and probation officers with heavy caseloads better support the parolees they work with. Recidiviz’s tools track parolees’ performance, so officers can see who needs help meeting requirements like counseling, employment, and housing.

  • The Outcome: GLG connected Recidiviz’s design team with 12 former parole and probation officers from multiple states. These conversations provided unique and objective UX/UI feedback for product development, helping Recidiviz design the most useful and impactful products to reduce recidivism.

SIRUM

SIRUM is a nonprofit social enterprise that redistributes unused, unexpired drugs that would otherwise go to waste to safety-net clinics. Through conversations with GLG Network Members, the SIRUM team unearthed several new actionable sources for surplus medications. For example, they learned that when big retail chains acquire independent pharmacies, an average of $1-2M of usable medicine is destroyed – waste that SIRUM aims to prevent.

“We never would have known this surplus existed without talking to GLG Network Members. These conversations have unlocked millions of dollars in medications to be donated rather than destroyed. Without GLG, we would have spent 18-24 months expending social capital to learn this information – instead we discovered it in days.”

Kiah Williams | Co-Founder, SIRUM | 2017 Fellow

Environment

We have partnered with several Fellow organizations focused on mitigating climate change and navigating its impacts.

BlocPower, a climate tech company that works to make buildings and homes healthier, smarter, and greener, spoke with GLG Network Members as they sought to bridge the broadband divide in New York City by extending WiFi network access to underserved communities.

Fargreen, a social enterprise supporting the development of climate-resilient farming communities in Southeast Asia, connected with GLG Network Members to gain best practices for marketing their sustainably produced snack foods across the continent.

Solstice, which works to make solar accessible for everyone in the U.S., leveraged GLG expert insights to hone their message about the significance of climate change to the rural and underserved populations they service.

MyAgro, an organization that comprehensively supports smallholder farmers in Africa, sought to better understand the sunflower market in the region. After talking to GLG Network Members, they were able to provide local farmers with training on how to make their farming practices more efficient, both economically and environmentally.

Global Press

GLG’s suite of product offerings have proven invaluable throughout our partnership with Global Press, an organization that trains and employs local female journalists to produce ethical, accurate news in the world’s least-covered regions. During their 2020 expansion, Global Press spoke with GLG Network Members to validate whether they could operate in 52 potential countries while ensuring the safety of their reporters, analyzing factors like security, law, political landscape, and more. GLG has also helped Global Press understand their readers by launching Voice of Customer surveys for audiences in Zimbabwe, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

“Our end goal in this expansion is very important, so we appreciate the revolutionary support of GLG’s Network Members. Thanks to GLG, we’ve been able to cut our research time in half.”

Laxmi Parthasarathy | Chief Operating Officer, Global Press | 2019 Fellow

Photo Caption: Shilu Manandhar, GPJ Nepal, is reporting in the field.
Photo Credit: Krista Kapralos

Mental Health

GLG supports a diverse array of mental health nonprofits serving at-risk populations and communities around the world.

StrongMinds, which works to treat depression at scale in Africa, was looking to expand its group talk methodology to the U.S. and spoke with GLG Network Members to better understand the country’s healthcare, licensing, and coverage ecosystem.

Amna, an organization that provides trauma-sensitive and identity-informed psychosocial support for refugees, spoke with GLG Network Members about how to disseminate their series of short films on refugee mental health as part of World Refugee Day in 2022.

batyr, an Australia-based youth mental health organization, spoke with GLG Network Members to formalize and expand a pricing model for their consulting offering, which offers batyr’s expertise to for-profit organizations and then deploys the earned revenue back into their core mission.

The Trevor Project, an LGBTQIA+ suicide prevention organization, connected with GLG Network Members in organizational growth and regional labor dynamics to ramp up the expansion of their life-saving call centers to Mexico.

Noora Health

Noora Health improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with caregiving skills. Working with local, state, and national governments across 4,500+ facilities in India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, Noora Health delivers high-quality training to families, then stays connected via mobile tech. Noora Health has reached over 4 million caregivers to date.

  • The Project: Noora Health was planning an expansion into Indonesia and needed to better understand the health policy ecosystem, chief drivers of access to health care, and disease dynamics of the country.

  • The Outcome: GLG connected the team with a former Indonesian Ministry of Health official, a local hospital director, and the former CEO of an international healthcare technology company. GLG’s Network Members provided crucial insight into Indonesia’s health landscape, which informed Noora Health’s expansion strategy. As a result, Noora Health has successfully partnered with local government health systems to train caregivers in Indonesia, and has a pathway to expand more in the future.