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this social entrepreneur has bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world.
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Our mission statement
To accelerate social change, Echoing Green invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. Through a two-year fellowship program, we help our network of visionaries develop new solutions to society’s most difficult problems.
The history of our organization
Echoing Green was established in 1987 by the senior leadership of General Atlantic, LLC. Echoing Green’s founders had great success in the private sector and were looking to bring proven venture capital investment strategies to the social sector. Through the creation of Echoing Green, General Atlantic has helped pioneer the strategy of applying entrepreneurial principles to social sector investing.
Our organization's standards for producers, products, or sellers
How we developed our standards
Echoing Green has modeled our fellowship program around our distinct approach to social change:
Social entrepreneurs play a vital role in fostering societal change
* The next big idea for social change will come from a robust pipeline of new leaders with innovative solutions. Social entrepreneurs exhibit an extremely high level of passion and commitment to their ideas. As a result, they remain steadfast on realizing their vision, but they also remain malleable in order to weather the obstacles that they will confront.
* Social entrepreneurs are extraordinary "bridgers." They have the great ability to deeply engage multiple and diverse stakeholders in their work, attracting corporate, public, and nonprofit leaders alike.
Social entrepreneurs need support and a strong network to succeed
* Social change work is oftentimes lonely and arduous and beyond the capacity of any one individual, especially during its start-up stage.
* A strong network of support is critical to sustaining the work of great societal leaders and broadening their impact.
More risk-taking is required in the philanthropic sector to drive true social change
* The entrepreneurial spirit that has long driven the economic growth in the U.S. and around the world needs to be brought to the social sector. Social change is created by developing new approaches that address root causes.
* Throughout history, breakthrough ideas and social change tend to come from the margins of society.
* New organizations, unconstrained by tradition, are often best able to challenge the status quo.
Summary of our process for screening new producers, products, or sellers
Echoing Green’s application process has three phases. At the conclusion of each phase, the most competitive applicants will be invited to continue in the process. Ultimately, 20 new fellows will be selected.
For details on our selection process, please visit: http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellowship/application-process
How we regularly monitor compliance of our standards
Our monitoring process including who performs the monitoring
Fellows are required to complete bi-annual reports.
The fee structure for our monitoring system
There is no fee.
Monitored regions
We are international.
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We encourage all eligible applicants to apply to our annual fellowship program. Eligibility criteria is detailed on our website at EchoingGreen.org