Students from Columbia Business School’s consulting group Pangea, worked pro-bono for a year to help Genesis develop and strengthen the tools to evaluate and measure our impact

Pangea is the pro-bono consulting group of the International Development Club at Columbia Business School. Every semester Pangea matches teams of 3-5 students with clients in different industries and parts of the world. The team completes a consulting assignment, advising the clients on innovative and impactful practices.

In an effort to start measuring more thoroughly our impact in the projects that we support in Colombia as well as our performance as an organization, in spring 2012, Genesis presented for the first time a project to Pangea to strengthen our metrics and generate a new evaluation tool. We started to work with a group of students to complete phase 1 of the project, which included a revision of our metrics and recommendations of a standardized measurement tool. The second phase continued with another group of students who helped us audit the current metrics developed in phase 1 and define the most pertinent metrics as well as a thorough evaluation tool.

After one year of working with Pangea, we culminated the process in April 2013 with a  new evaluation tool that will help us to improve the way in which we measure our impact as an organization as well as our impact in our projects in Colombia.

We want to thank these students for their hard work and commitment to Genesis and we will keep working to improve our everyday work.

For more information on Pangea http://www.pangeaadvisors.org/default.asp

 

Genesis is looking for a National Project Coordinator in Colombia

Para información en español haga click aquí

Genesis Foundation is looking for a National Project Coordinator in Colombia. The coordinator is in charge of monitoring and evaluating the projects in Colombia and has to give an added value to the interdisciplinary work carried out by the foundation in Colombia and in the U.S. 

Technical skills

• Coordinate some of the educational projects in our portfolio 
• Manage administrative, financial and all aspects related to the projects during their selection process and execution
• Maintain a close relation with operators and other private and public allies as well as with direct contact with beneficiaries of the projects
• Participate in technical and directive committees 
• Write reports with both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the projects for the donors 
• Position the projects in strategic spaces and facilitate the creation of alliances with other organizations from the public and private sectors
• Support the daily functioning of the foundation in Colombia and the US

Academic and other experience

• Professional in social science or administration, preferably with post graduate studies in Education and/or social development 
• 4 years of experience 
• Fluid english and spanish (both oral and written). English is a must since a lot of reports and other information required by donors is in English. 

Other

• Live in Colombia or is able to transfer to Colombia
• Availability to travel to the projects in Colombia

Send the CV to genesis@genesis-foundation.org with salary aspiration 

Deadline MAY 31, 2012

Palabrario & Numerario chosen to present its experience at Bogota's Book Fair

On April 24, 2013 within the framework of FILBo (Bogota's Book Fair), the Regional Portfolio of Reading and Writing Projects- PorLeer 2012 from CERLAC- was presented in Corferias in Bogotá. Our program in alliance with Fundación Corona, Palabrario & Numerario, was chosen to present its experience as it is considered to be a succesful initiative that is promoting reading and writing in Colombia.  

In representation of Palabrario & Numerario, Camila Ronderos from Fundación Corona, made a brief presentation of the program and spoke about its objectives, strategies, good practices, beneficiaries and operators through its 7 years of operation. 

The teacher Astrid Gomez from the educational institution Juan VI in Sopó, also spoke about her experience in the porgram and talked about the benefits that the program has brought to her life and to her classroom.

CERLAC has the objective of fostering language in order to meet the basic needs of the citizens to improve quality education and strenghthen our national identity. In 2012, a portfolio of projects from Brasil, Chile, México, Panamá, Colombia, Portugal  and  Venezuela were chosen. 

PorLeer opened a new call for 2014-2015 for those entities from the public and private sectors from Latin America that want to present their projects before September 30, 2013. PorLeer wants to identify and recognize those reading and writing projects that are having a high social impact in our region. 

We want to thank CERLAC and FILBo for opening this wonderful space to share and speak about our strategies and results which are allowing us to transform the lives of more than 400,000 children in Colombia through language and mathematical development. 

For further information visit http://www.cerlalc.org/convocatoria_porleer/

A commission of experts from Asia visited our program First Learning Steps

Last week a commission of 11 experts from Asian countries travelled to Colombia to learn about the country´s best practices on early childhood care and education.

One of the purposes of this visit was to promote actions of bilateral and regional cooperation between Colombia, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam  to improve social and economic conditions for the children in our countries.

As part of their agenda, the commission visited one of our First Learning Steps centers in Tucurinca- Zona Bananera in Magdalena as an example of a succesful initiative of the early education national strategy "De Cero a Siempre". This center currently attends 80 children, 75 famillies and 23 teachers. 

To learn more about FLS click http://www.genesis-foundation.org/first-learning-steps-macropro/

For news on the visit of this commission http://bit.ly/1249Px6

Two of Genesis' programs among the 20 innovative social initiatives chosen by ANSPE to overcome extreme poverty

On March 19, 2013  the catalogue “Social Innovation Initiatives to Overcome Extreme poverty” was officially launched in Bogotá.

Palabrario & Numerario, our program in alliance with Fundación Corona and Jóvenes Emprendedores, our program in alliance with Fundación Promigas and Actuar are 2 of the 20 initiaves chosen by ANSPE as programs that are helping to overcome extreme poverty in Colombia.

From our team, Natalia León was invited to speak during the event about Palabrario & Numerario, which was chosen along with other 4 initiatives in Cundinamarca. Natalia was joined by the teacher Astrid Emilse Gómez from the school Pablo VI in Sopó, Cundinamarca who shared her experience with Palabrario & Numerario and explained how she was able to support students with disabilities by using the program as an inclusion strategy in regular classrooms.

We are very glad to be able to contribute to a more equal society through our programs and we will keep on working to benefit more children with quality education. 

To see the catalogue online click here