Partnership exceeds expectations in the training and development of social leaders
With the goal of empowering and training social leaders to increase their impact in the favelas where they work, offering education, economic development, and income generation services, the commitment made between the Bem Maior Movement and Gerando Falcões helped boost the results of the NGO led by Edu Lyra. The initial plan was to train 90 leaders; 102 were trained by the end of 2020. The expectation was to be present in 160 favelas; today, the organization is in approximately 720, across 19 states, with 73 NGOs in the Gerando Falcões ecosystem, including 26 units accelerated by the institution.
The partnership contributed to strengthening the NGO, enabling it to accelerate various local empowerment initiatives through a networked social impact ecosystem. This allowed the accelerated institutions to expand their activities and increase their impact, breaking the cycle of poverty in their communities.
“The results of the work, reflected in current numbers of leaders trained, favelas impacted, and units inaugurated, prove the success of our partnership and the power of strengthening organizations, such as Gerando Falcões, in joining forces to mobilize, coordinate, and direct resources,” declares Carola Matarazzo, executive director of the Bem Maior Movement.
Born in the favela for the favela, Falcons University is a talent accelerator with innovative and technological initiatives, focused on developing leaders from the favelas to be tools and channels for solving the country's biggest problems.
By the end of 2020, Gerando Falcões had trained 102 new leaders through its university, and 11 new accelerated units were inaugurated, totaling 21 units in the Gerando Falcões Network. These leaders, trained by the university, are the bridge to fulfilling the NGO's mission of bringing poverty from the favela to the museum. As a goal for 2023, the Gerando Falcões Network aims to train more than 1,000 leaders, have 100 accelerated units, and be present in more than 2,980 favelas.
We believe that empowering and strengthening social leadership is key to ensuring the development of the most vulnerable regions of this country. The partnership with Gerando Falcões, and other co-investors, aims to generate a systemic impact in this area, bringing prosperity, hope, and building bridges,” says Carola Matarazzo.
“The Bem Maior Movement is a great partner of Gerando Falcões, through its work with Falcons University, and consequently in our mission to bring the poverty of the favela to the museum. Through this support, we are able to train and empower more and more leaders who work daily to break the cycle of poverty throughout Brazil,” says Edu Lyra, CEO and founder of Gerando Falcões.
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