About Us


What We Do

The Goldin Institute works to build grassroots partnerships for global change that are rooted in the power of communities coming together to build their own solutions and determine their own futures. We help communities achieve their goals through a combination of online and on the ground initiatives focused on addressing poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and conflict resolution.

We achieve our mission by promoting innovative, community-driven partnerships between a wide range of stakeholders and sectors of civil society, ensuring that often excluded voices have a seat at the table of any social change movement.    Through our work we have found that communities around the globe face similar sets of critical challenges to peace and sustainability. Effective, long-term solutions to these problems must be rooted in cooperative networks that engage all sectors of civil society. Through these networks, organizations can share critical knowledge, work, contacts, strategies and best practices for effective change.

The Goldin Institute works to foster and facilitate these networks by:

  • Goldin Institute Events:  The Goldin Institute works in cooperation with local partners around the world to host international gatherings on issues identified by members of our network.  The Institute and our local partners cooperatively invite teams to participate in these global gatherings to focus on challenges related to both the global and regional dimensions of each issue, as well as developing concrete and actionable plans within and across partnering communities.

  • Research and Consultative Support:  The Goldin Institute builds innovative global partnerships to address critical issues and design new tools and strategies on behalf of our international network.  Our research services, educational opportunities and consultative support directly serves communities, grassroots organiations, international agencies and the philanthropic sector to implement innovative and sustainable programming.

  • Goldin Institute Associates:  Our projects have convened outstanding grassroots leaders, organizers and activists from around the world who lead the local and regional initiatives of the network.  Consistent with our approach in building capacity in communities in which we work rather than in our home office, our staff includes a growing team of Goldin Institute Global Associates.  These Global Associates serve as "extention staff" and lead the facilitation of Goldin Institute programs in communities around the world.

  • Partner Network:  The Goldin Institute's Partner Network is comprised of groups from over 60 cities around the world.  This network provides the foundation for all of the work we do.  This exceptional network of leaders, activists, community organizers and government and NGO staff share a commitment to our core principals of building grassroots partnerships for global change.  This network guides, directs, facilitates and carries out the work of the Goldin Institute in each of their own communities.


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