This group of high-level sponsors provides strategic
direction and accountability, helps to ensure and allocate funding,
and helps to increase the impact of the GDP by providing visibility and
legitimacy in key stakeholder groups.
Current organizational sponsors include: the Fetzer Institute, GAN-Net,
Generon Consulting, the Metanoia Fund, the Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation (NORAD), SoL (the Society for Organizational Learning), the
Swedish Foreign Ministry, Synergos Institute, the Third Millennium Foundation,
and the UNDP
Ralph
Taylor of GAN-Net and the Metanoia
Fund and Tom Callanan of
the Fetzer Institute are lead financial supporters of the GDP. The
GDP has also received funding from the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Norad,
and the Third Millenium Foundation.
- The Fetzer Institute: the Institute's
mission to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the
emerging global community rests on its conviction that efforts to address
the world's critical issues must go beyond political, social, and economic
strategies to their psychological and spiritual roots.
- GAN-Net (Global Action Network-Net):
a growing community of GAN leaders, funders, researchers, and consultants,
committed to developing global action networks that serve the public
good.
- Generon Consulting:
represents a new breed of international consulting firm—one that
is motivated by a desire to create a more equitable, peaceful, and sustainable
world. Generon helps leaders of companies, governments, and civil society
organizations create better futures through the transformation of individual
and collective patterns of seeing, thinking, and acting.
- The Metanoia Fund: Description coming soon. . .
- The Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation (Norad): is a directorate
under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Norad's
most important task is to contribute in the international cooperation
to fight poverty.
- SoL (the Society for Organizational Learning):
an international community dedicated to building organizations worthy
of the highest aspirations of their people.
- The Swedish Foreign Ministry
- The Synergos Institute: an
independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of
effective, sustainable, and locally-based solutions to poverty.
- The Third Millennium Foundation: is
a private, not-for-profit foundation located in New York City. The Foundation
was founded in the year 2000 as an initiative for unlearning intolerance
in the new millennium.
- United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP)
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