Partnership exceeds expectations in the training and training of social leaders
With the aim of training and training social leaders to increase the impact in the favelas in which they operate, offering education, economic development and income generation services, the commitment made between Movimento Bem Maior and Gerando Falcões helped to boost the NGO's results commanded by Edu Lyra. It was planned to train 90 leaders, 102 were trained by the end of 2020. Expected to be in 160 favelas, today it is in approximately 720, in 19 states and with 73 NGOs in the Gerando Falcões ecosystem, among these 26 units accelerated by the institution.
The partnership contributed to strengthening the NGO's ability to accelerate various local strengthening initiatives, through a social impact ecosystem that operates as a network, so that accelerated institutions were able to expand their activities and increase impact to interrupt the cycle of poverty in their localities. .
“The results of the work, reflected in the current numbers of leaders trained, favelas impacted and units opened, prove the success of our partnership and the power of strengthening organizations, such as Gerando Falcões, in joining forces to mobilize, articulate and direct resources ”, declares Carola Matarazzo, executive director of Movimento Bem Maior.
Born in the favela for the favela, Falcons University is a talent accelerator with innovative and technological initiatives, with deep human experiences, which focuses on developing favela leaders to be tools and a channel for solutions to the country's biggest problems.
By the end of 2020, Gerando Falcões trained 102 new leaders through its university, and 11 new accelerated units were opened, totaling 21 units in the Gerando Falcões Network. These university-trained leaders are the bridge to fulfill the NGO's mission of taking poverty from the favela to the museum. As a goal for 2023, Rede Gerando Falcões seeks to train more than 1000 leaders, have 100 accelerated units and be present in more than 2,980 favelas.
We believe that training and strengthening social leaders is to guarantee the development of the most vulnerable regions of this country. The partnership with Gerando Falcões, and other co-investors, aims to generate systemic impact in this universe, bringing prosperity, hope and building bridges”, says Carola Matarazzo.
“Movimento Bem Maior is a great partner of Gerando Falcões, through its work with Falcons University, and consequently in our mission of taking poverty from the favela to the museum. Through this support, we were able to train and train more and more leaders who work daily to interrupt the cycle of poverty throughout Brazil”, says Edu Lyra, CEO and founder of Gerando Falcões.
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