A) BACKGROUND OF GLOBALHOOD
Globalhood’s mission was to increase global prosperity and equality, bringing together people and resources from across disciplines and cultures to create innovative projects and to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of other organizations.
To learn more about Globalhood’s vision and structure, click here.
Launched at the end of 2006 by Frank Cohn, Patrick Haverman, Marina Kaneti, and Julia Zhou, from 2007-11 Globalhood connected with a network of almost 100 practitioners and consultants from across over 50 areas of expertise and speaking 35 languages. From this wider network, a select group of individuals from 14 different countries with over ten years each of experience in the field, provided Globalhood Consulting Services to 7 clients. These clients were primarily other relatively small non-profit organizations.
For a list of the Clients that Globalhood served, click here.
Globalhood’s services included Website Development, Board of Directors Recruitment, Project Incubation Services, Monitoring and Evaluation, Needs Assessment Research, and Fundraising Advising. In the words of some of our clients: “We have recently cemented our corporate status and have our 501©3 pending – this would not be happening were it not for Mr. Cano’s work, his excellent staff and his perceptive referrals to other competent professionals.”; “The report is a thing of beauty…it was an excellent document to re-read and I’m sure we will be referring back to it often.”; “Without the support of Globalhood, this would not have been possible. I remember almost to the month and date the encouragement I have got when I was on the verge of giving up”.
Globalhood’s network also created 4 projects of its own. Working simultaneously with both clients and projects, while it did not work out to be a financially viable business model in the short term, allowed us to have a learning pipeline to create even more effective and targeted impact.
To learn more about Globalhood’s projects, click here.
As Globalhood then, and Global Potential now, we continue to be focused on creating Effective, Sustainable, and Inclusive international development practices. This approach is based in what we see as an overall failing of the development industry over the last 60 years.
To learn more about the context for why we felt that an innovative multidisciplinary approach to development work was needed, click here.
This approach was partially developed originally through a still growing graduate student group at Columbia University, created by Globalhood co-founders Marina Kaneti and Frank Cohn “http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupid/“http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupid/ , aimed to explore and demonstrate how a multidisciplinary approach to international development can produce innovative, holistic solutions for disadvantaged populations.
To learn more about what we mean when we talk about “effective” development work, take a look at our Bibliography of online resources, click here
—Check out this great film made by one of our Interns, Peter Brock, click here
—And to read about Globalhood’s Research work from 2007-9, click here
The work aimed to prove that collaborating holistically across perspectives, cultures, and professions results in improved achievements towards addressing local and global development challenges, and is therefore necessary in order to implement ethical, sustainable, and effective initiatives for traditionally marginalized populations. Through the study of 45 development projects, we developed several case studies and best practices, click here
Globalhood also worked on developing a Toolkits project in 2007, to make international development toolkits more accessible to practitioners, click here
Later, a more effective platform for this was developed by TakingITGlobal, an excellent youth-driven organization…definitely check out their awesome work, click here !
