GAP Intensive Program

GAP Intensive program

The GAP Intensive program is for individuals or organizations that have a deep commitment to alleviating poverty and are impassioned about bringing positive change in India and globally. You want to increase the impact of your initiative’s strengthen your personal and organization’s capabilities and become part of a larger network of mentors, investors, corporates and like-minded social entrepreneurs.

We have certain minimum eligibility criteria for the applicant Changemakers:

You must be the head/founder of an NGO or Social Enterprise
Your NGO/Social Enterprise has been operational for at least 2 years (we are not an accelerator program for early-stage concepts)
You must have registrations like 12A, 80G, FCRA or registration under Section 8 Company Act
You have at least 1 year of financial statements and budgets
You are willing to commit time, energy and resources over the duration of the program, and are willing to engage enthusiastically with mentors, business leaders, investors and other partners during the Intensive journey
You have support within the organization to work on the GAP Intensive with you, especially during the days when you are attending the Foundation Workshop or other sessions.
Willingness to upgrade and improve the organizational strategy and plan through the GAP Intensive
Ability to deploy tools to measure the impact of the initiative
Willingness for personal leadership development to optimize the capabilities of the team, partners and connections and being open to change
Willingness to attend the GAP Annual Event, planned for 1 – 3 Feb 2019 at the Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad to meet your Corporate Change Leader

How is the GAP Intensive program structured?

The GAP Intensive Program is a 14-month journey covering two key parts:

A 2-month Intensive Foundation Course which prepares the Changemakers for the yearlong Intensive journey
The 1-year Intensive Program with the Change team focusing on increasing the impact by at least 50%

The GAP Intensive Foundation Course consists of:

A workshop covering personal leadership and organizational development through in classroom coaching - 7 days
Foundation (Mentoring) - Weekly calls with mentor for strengthening business fundamentals - 8 sessions across 8 weeks

The Core GAP Intensive 12-Month Program

Working with dedicated Intensive Leader to define growth strategy, develop the implementation plan and identify partners for growth - 3 months
Support from Change team in implementation of growth plan, leveraging networks and connections and improving funding readiness - 9 months
Regular monthly/quarterly reviews and an impact assessment at the end of 1 year.

What is the Foundation Course? The Foundation course is an integral part of the GAP Intensive program. The course will:

Expand your leadership capabilities, develop powerful perspectives towards your life and goals
Equip you with the right frameworks to crystallize your organization's mission & strategy, build your organization model and plan for the future
Coach you towards being 'funding ready' - how to present/pitch to investors and define organization's objectives/programs/structure in an impactful manner
Enable you to discover your Life Purpose, and align it with your work and life
Bring forth a new paradigm of living and professional action

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Benefits of the Foundation Course

Of the 14 months the first 2 months of the GAP Intensive has been designed as a transformative process and works at:

Understanding of concepts such as budgeting, financial planning and management, organization structure and development, impact assessment etc.
Impactful mentoring from business mentors – these are experienced business leaders who bring their deep experience and knowledge to guide you through eight weeks of personalized mentoring
The Foundation course has been designed as a learning program – you will be applying the concepts and tools to your organization to identify areas that need to be strengthened
Great clarity in communicating your organization’s objectives, internally and externally
A personal transformation of your life, powerful relationships at work and home, clarity about life and intentions for the future
The Purpose of your Life and how it aligns with your current world

Benefits of the Core Intensive Journey

The program prepares a Changemaker to amplify the impact that they can deliver, strengthen their ability to devise growth plans, and deliver successful outcomes through a Foundation Course
It provides access to a GAP ‘Change Leader’ (a Business Executive), an Expert and the GAP team, who work with the Changemaker and support them throughout the 12-month journey.
Every Changemaker gains mileage and momentum from the experience and connections of professionals, partners and the larger GAP network of experienced business and social sector experts
A large part of the program entails learning and applying social and business principles of ideation, solutioning, delivery models, resource planning, financial planning/management, impact measurement and making impactful pitches as well as implementing growth strategies.

Become A Change Leader

A GAP Change leader is a corporate leader and co-owns the project along with the Changemaker to bring 50 to 100% increase in the impact and connects GAP and outside world to the Changemaker to allow for cross pollination of ideas.

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