The Global Education & Leadership Foundation

The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF) is an organisation that focuses on cultivating ethical, altruistic leadership aimed at improving the overall standard of the world.[4]

The Global Education & Leadership Foundation
AbbreviationtGELF
Formation2008 (2008)[1]
TypeFoundation
PurposeEthical leadership, Education, Skilling
HeadquartersGurgaon, Haryana, India
Area served
Worldwide
MethodCurriculum, Projects
OwnerThe Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation[2]
Key people
Shiv V. Khemka
(Executive Chairman),
Gowri Ishwaran
(CEO)[3]
WebsitetGELF.org

The foundation currently connects with 1,000,000 students through 7000 master trainers across 1000 schools & NGOs in 12 countries.[5][6]

History

tGELF was officially launched in 2008 by the then Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh.[7]

Programs

SKILLD

Skilling & Knowhow Initiative for Lifelong Leadership Development (SKILLD) is a unique value-based curriculum developed with Teachers College, Columbia University.[7][8] The curriculum focuses on imbibing four key values of Leadership which are LEAD (Leadership skills, Ethics, Altruism, Decisive Action). The foundation reaches over 3,000,000 (3 MN) students across the globe through this curriculum.

Education Prize

The Education Prize is an annual competition organised by tGELF for school teachers in India and abroad. The winners are given a letter of recommendation and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh (USD 1500 approx.) each.[9]

Initiatives

Global Citizen India

In 2016, tGELF partnered Global Citizen to host first edition of the Global Citizen India Festival.[10][11][12]

The festival was hosted on November 19 in Mumbai, India, where it was headlined by Coldplay and Jay Z. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made a short address to the crowd via video conference.[13] Other performers included Demi Lovato, A. R. Rahman, The Vamps, Arijit Singh, Shraddha Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Ranveer Singh, Farhan Akhtar, and Amitabh Bachchan. There were also appearances by Indian film actors Shah Rukh Khan, Parineeti Chopra, Ayushmann Khurrana, and Arjun Kapoor, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

The promotional campaign mobilized over 500,000 youths who took more than 2 million “actions” through digital platforms calling on government, faith leaders, business icons and celebrities to be more accountable on education, gender equality, water and sanitation. The star-studded event headlined by Coldplay drew 85,000 people and raised more than USD 5 BN while clocking a TV Viewership of 2 million people across India.[6][14]

Awards & Recognitions

tGELF was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award at the Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014 by University of Pennsylvania.[15][16] The award is also known as 'Oscars for Education'[17]

References
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  4. "Global Citizen Festival: 4 young guns adding meaning to country's biggest-ever concert". indiatoday.in. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. "Chairman Rahim Green to address tGELF conference". greaterkashmir.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  6. Indo-Asian News Service. "We will build a Swachh Bharat within one generation: Narendra Modi". India.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  7. "Developing Young Leaders in India | Teachers College Columbia University". tc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. "Start ‘em young". Livemint. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  9. "Tribune schoolteacher bags prestigious education award". tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  10. "The Global Citizen Movement Comes to India". adgully.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  11. "Global Citizen Festival India: 6 Months on, What Impact Has Been Made?". globalcitizen.org. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  12. "The Global Citizen movement comes to India". bestmediainfo.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  13. "WATCH: PM Modi's full speech at Global Citizen Festival for 'young friends'". indiatoday.in. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  14. "Global Citizen Festival: PM Narendra Modi addresses 80,000 young 'global citizens'". The Financial Express. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  15. "Press release Wharton-qs stars Awards 2014 Reimagine Education". ininet.org. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  16. "Press release Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014 Reimagine Education". studylib.net. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  17. "The 'Oscars of Innovation in Higher Education'". knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2018.


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