Global Knowledge Initiative

“The Organization did not have committees.”

“The 990 is reviewed by the full board prior to its filing.”

“A copy of the conflict of interest policy is circulated to all members of the governing body (directors) and is referenced in determining actions to be taken for which a potential conflict of interest may arise. In such instances, the language of the policy is invoked and the actions to be taken are governed by the protocol to eliminate such conflicts of interest as described in the policy.”

“The CEOs salary is benchmarked using The Washington DC Not- for-Profit salary survey to determine the appropriate compensation structure by comparing available data. Compensation decisions, including pay increases are kept parsimonious with local market standard conditions for similarly sized Not- for-Profit organizations.In October 2018, Board approved a performance incentive policy for executive and high performing staff based on organizational growth and impact metrics.”

“Pay bands at GKI are determined by their ability to meet the requirements of the position. The basis for the GKI pay bands is benchmarked off of market comparables (using Guidestar and Glassdoor) of similar roles and experience levels of nonprofit and for-profit organizations offering design, strategy, and innovation support within the development and social impact sector. To ensure that employees receive formal feedback and a transparent evaluation and determination of salary increases and promotions, GKI supervisors conduct an Annual Performance Evaluations for all full-time and part-time GKI Staff and promotions and pay increases are linked to Years of Experience, performance and alignment with the roles and responsibilities.”

“Copies of other documents in addition to the conflict of interest policy and financial statements are kept in the GKI offices, as well as in electronic formats. These include Articles of Incorporation, Corporate By-laws, minutes and other records such as written communications and financial statements within the past 3 years. In addition, a list of names and business addresses of current officers and directors and the most recent biennial report filed with DC are available. These documents can be shared upon receipt of a written request.”

“Other Fees for Services Direct Consultants: $517,649Indirect Consultants: $32,668Other: $20,817”

“Part III - Line 4: Program Service Accomplishments - ConsultingCGIAR Gender Learning Agenda: GKI supported CGIARs GENDER Platforms Evidence Module to facilitate the development of a Collaborative Learning Agenda (LA) on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) to improve gender equality and womens empowerment across CGIAR programs and invesentments. In this process, GKIco-created, consolidated, and shared robust evidence, working with stakeholders to identify emergent issues, and close data gaps in the area of gender in agriculture and food systems, and identified potential learning activities, capacity needs and communication products to activate stakeholders to work collectively to address the identified knowledge gaps. Part III - Line 4: Program Service Accomplishments - LabsGKI facilitated private sector and humanitarian actors across the Eastern Caribbean archipelago to collectively map the dynamics of the system, clarify the future state envisioned, and identified strategic opportunities for systems transformation and launch 2 critical initiatives; strengthening a network coalition to foster long-term, value-driven partnerships between the private sector and humanitarian actors, and a resource coordination platform to harness donations and aid resources from the private sector to actors in the field. AI4R: Accelerating Innovation for Resilience (AI4R) designed and managed by GKI, is a systems-informed, stakeholder-led, action-oriented program that brings diverse actors together to identify, develop and scale innovative, sustainable solutions to strengthen the humanitarian innovation ecosystem around disaster response and resilience. AI4Resilience works in accompaniment with a broad range of potential innovation ecosystems stakeholders such as government agencies, humanitarian organizations innovation departments, corporate partners, entrepreneurship incubators, accelerators, and a broad range of investors and activates these intermediaries through a highly participatory incentive challenge, designed to support local innovation, leadership, and collaboration around solutions to emerge while building connective tissue across the network. The program was piloted in Bangladesh. Part III - Line 4: Program Service Accomplishments - ResearchGKI conducted KIIs to determine how different stakeholders in different contexts define resilience. visually represented how BHCs impacted the city to prepare and respond to future shocks. The team also identified contextual factors, via surveys and KIIs that have either facilitated or hindered the effective implementation of the BHC model and analyzed survey and interview responses to identify enabling conditions for BHC to better understand the validity of the BHC theory of change to inform future program design.”

“Mission Statement Continuation:At GKI, our mission is to activate collaborative networks to deliver the innovative solutions needed to build more resilient systems.”