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Expansion Portfolio

GPN’s first group of 4 NPO scaling initiatives (below) reflects a selection process that comes out of our field research and evaluation of more than 20 nominated expansion candidates.

We are assisting each organization to attract growth capital through our unique collaborative funding process that syndicates capital from a variety of funders to finance their expansion plans. Participants in each syndicate include major foundations, family foundations, and high-net worth individuals.

The national expansion programs below have been vetted through a detailed due diligence process that includes GPN’s standard set of “growth worthy” and “growth ready” evaluation criteria. Each has proven quantitative measures of social impact and demonstrated the ability to reproduce that impact on a large scale. Perhaps most importantly, each one represents a potential field changing solution.

A GPN “Due Diligence Rating Report” and Growth Business Plan for each organization are available on request.

To maximize the learning potential from these first four scale-ups, GPN chose organizations that represent different fields, stages of growth and strategies for expansion. They employ both grant and debt capital, and one represents a product
scale-up opportunity.

Ways to Work (WtW): (CEO, Peter Goldberg) WtW is an economic empowerment program that helps working-poor single mothers move out of poverty by providing them financial literacy and low interest, character-based loans which they use to buy a car - allowing them to get and keep a job, access college and take better care of their children.

YouthBuild USA (YB): (CEO, Dorothy Stoneman) YB educates troubled youth, grants them GEDs or high school diplomas, and trains and places them in housing related professions or college. YB also provides significant leadership development and college completion support.

Year Up (YU): (CEO, Gerald Chertavian) YU is an innovative workforce development program that serves disconnected high school graduates 18-24 years old. Through an intensive one year program, it teaches technology and professional skills and provides youth with college credits, stipends, apprenticeships, job placement, and career guidance.

Calvert Foundation: (President and CEO, Shari Berenbach) GPN is helping Calvert Foundation connect with interested debt providers for the “Calvert Community Investment Note”. The CI Note is a scalable, fixed rate loan product that packages individual and institutional capital into affordable loans that are then made to more than 240 organizations worldwide that help alleviate poverty and support underserved communities.