Who We Are
tGELF seeks to nurture 21st century leadership and entrepreneurship skills based on ethics, altruism, and a bias for action in young individuals through a unique curriculum developed in collaboration with the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University and Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. This long term and sustained leadership curriculum called SKILLD (Skilling & Know How Initiative for Lifelong Leadership Development) is being deployed in rural and urban schools across India and is open for all students in the class. tGELF has partnered with 3,000 schools across 14 countries to deliver our leadership curriculum through a network of 70,000 teachers to more than 3 million students.
VISION
Building a community of ethical, altruistic leaders who work together to improve the state of the world.
Mission
To identify, select, support, monitor, mentor, evaluate, connect and empower ethical and altruistic leaders through partnership with communities and organizations at all levels committed to improving the inner and outer state of the world.
In Focus
Check out our core projects & initiatives.
Entrepreneurship Sports Generation
Entrepreneurship Sports Generation (ESG) is a global, sportified entrepreneurship tournament. ESG seeks to provide the most promising startups, working along the ideals of conscious entrepreneurship, with a platform to unleash their potential and achieve global scale.
Global Citizen India
Global Citizen India (GCI) is a movement created by a partnership between Global Citizen and tGELF that seeks to unite policymakers, corporate leaders, pop culture icons, spiritual leaders and citizens at large for an ambitious goal: to end extreme poverty by 2030. Global Citizen Festival India catalysed over 2.1 million digital and physical social actions taken by over 500,000 Global Citizens, and raised USD 6.38 billion in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Entrepreneurship World Cup
The Entrepreneurship World Cup started out as an idea -- and has supported more than 300,000 entrepreneurs in 200 countries. It is made possible by three co-host organisations -- Misk Global Forum, Global Entrepreneurship Network and The Global Education & Leadership Foundation. The Entrepreneurship World Cup is more than just a pitch competition.
tGELF/JA India
In 2017, JA Worldwide formed a partnership with The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF) in a mutual endeavor to innovate and revolutionize the global education space together and fulfil their missions through shared technology and scale. JA Worldwide and tGELF have aligned their efforts to reach more youth to become entrepreneurial leaders who are ethical, inclusive, and altruistic. We collectively aim to bring tGELF programmes and JA programmes to impact a greater number of young people globally.