The Circle seeks to address the need to complete the educational process of at-risk adolescent girls, so they gain employable skills and become contributing members of society. It seeks to accomplish this through a transitioning model that recognizes a disadvantaged girl needs motivational empowerment and financial enablement to step-change her accessibility to ‘life’s chances,’ and to this end, embedding selfless social behaviors is as important as embedding successful commercial, leadership and entrepreneurial behaviors if beneficiaries are meant to become benefactors in the future.
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Mar 2017
Microsoft features beneficiary in its 2017 PR campaign, which highlighted people and organizations using technology to advance the future for everyone.
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Jul 2016
Global Give Back Circle – Future Political Leaders launches in partnership with the Wilson Center’s Women in Public Service Project & Rwanda Girls Initiative.
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Jun 2016
Alumna invited to the United State of Women Summit in Washington, D.C., and to tell her story at the FHI 360 Gender Summit joined by U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, Cathy Russell.
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Jun 2016
Alumna conducts focus groups and interview with girls at refugee camps across Lebanon.
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May 2016
Alumna delivers a special statement at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Apr 2016
First Lady Michelle Obama shares the story of Faith, a Global Give Back Circle beneficiary, at the World Bank Summit in Washington, D.C.
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Jan 2016
Beneficiaries invited to India to transfer institutional knowledge on how to implement the ‘Circle’.
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Jan 2016
Beneficiary invited to speak on the impact of Private Sector Partnerships in a girl’s transformation process at U.S. Ambassador’s reception for Global Give Back Circle – India – Delhi, India.
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Dec 2015
Beneficiary is accepted to participate in the YALI Regional Leadership Center East Africa program in Kenya.
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May 2013
Beneficiary is selected as one of 100 young leaders (out of 6,000) to receive a scholarship to the ‘Women Deliver Conference’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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May 2012
The Global Give Back Circle partners with World Vision – Kenya to help rescue girls (girls rescued from FGM and forced early marriage) in West Pokot.
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Nov 2011
Two beneficiaries travel to Haiti for peer-to-peer knowledge transfer on how to implement a ‘Mentoring Program’ at the Haitian Education & Leadership Program.
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Apr 2011
Four beneficiaries attended CGIU (Clinton Global Initiative University) and registered a Commitment: “Hey Sister, Get Clued-up” to reach 10,000 young women in Africa.
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Oct 2010
Feature on the cover of Microsoft’s Citizenship Report. The girls were proving that IT skills did give girls an edge in the new economy.
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Dec 2009
An unsolicited proposal to USAID becomes a game-changer because it led to $5.5 million in scholarship funding for Kenya.
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Oct 2009
Citibank partners as the first Mentor Chapter. Today Kenya has Mentor Chapters with 21 private sector organizations.
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Sep 2009
Featured in Opening Plenary at CGI Meeting as an example of a CGI Commitment that is having an impact on the empowerment of girls and young women.
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Sep 2008
A chance meeting with Microsoft at CGI results in the first state-of-the-art IT Lab in Kenya and a partnership with Microsoft in a CGI Commitment.
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Sep 2008
ATEBank of Greece commits $300,000 in seed capital for college scholarships for the first 30 girls.
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Jan 2006
The Global Give Back Circle starts as a Mentoring Program. The pilot: 10 at-risk girls with high school bursaries in Kenya.
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