Education United States Project #40986

Atlas Corps: Celebrate Diversity & Inclusion

by Atlas Corps

Project Report | Oct 5, 2022
Join us in celebrating our Global Community...

By Abby Robinson | Chief Strategy Officer | Alumna Class 2 (USA)

Hello!

How are you doing? I have some exciting news to share with you—Atlas Corps is now an official Open Gov Hub (OGH) Member! This opportunity will allow us to continue to build upon our partnership with Open Gov Hub, who has also been an amazing Host Organization over the years and further connect with their Global Affiliate Hubs, including the three that are run by Atlas Corps Alumni: Albania, Liberia, and Tunisia. Also, if you have not already done so, we encourage you to update your records with our new address:

Atlas Corps

c/o Open Gov Hub

1100 13th Street NW, Suite 800

Washington, D.C. 20005-4281

The Atlas Corps Community cannot thank you enough for your impact. 2022 Hilton Prize Scholar, Edrisa (The Gambia) shares how you are contributing towards diversity:

“I want to recommend Atlas Corps to my colleagues because this is one of the most outstanding, impactful, practical, skills i have earned through learning the realities of the Global World of diverse people, skills, experiences with excellent leadership journeys that every emerging leader should have.”

As a special thank you for your support in helping us make 2022 an unforgettable year, I invite you to join us on October 18 at 12pm ET for our Fall Celebration of Service! We will be featuring all of our Fellows, Scholars, and Alumni that have began and/or completed their service in the last few months.

Here are a few recent highlights that are worth celebrating…

We welcome new leaders into our Global Community and Atlas Corps Team, and congratulate those that completed their service:

Congratulations 2022 Cohort of Hilton Prize Scholars: Last we spoke in June, we welcomed them into our Global Community, and now, thanks to your support, we will be celebrating their graduation! Meet them here.
Welcome Cohort 10 Scholars: These dynamic leaders from Russia and the United States will be participating in our Virtual Leadership Institute, “Leadership in Times of Change.” Meet some of them here.
Meet our newest Team Members at Atlas Corps, Aymen Bouazizi, our Community Solutions Program Fellow from Tunisia; Beverly Hsu, our Partnerships Associate; Katherine Kane, our Strategic Partnerships Manager; and Moulika Mehta, our Talent Acquisition Manager. You can meet them all here.

Thanks to your support, we can continue to expand our Global Community through these special initiatives:

Virtual Leadership Institute Recruitment: Atlas Corps recently launched the recruitment campaigns for professionals in Nicaragua and climate change leaders in Spain. You are welcome to share amongst your professional networks using our social media toolkits (Nicaragua and Spain).
Please feel free to share amongst your professional networks!

Most of all, thank YOU for being an amazing friend of Atlas Corps!

Cheers-

Abby

P.S. I encourage you to visit and follow the Atlas Corps LinkedIn page, where we will continue to update on all of these exciting events!

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Jun 11, 2022
Moving forward: An exciting time for Atlas Corps!

By Abby Robinson | Chief Strategy Officer | Alumna Class 2 (USA)

Hello!

2022 is both a busy and unforgettable year. Since announcing our #AtlasCorps2025 strategy earlier this year, we introduced new and exciting opportunities to help us grow into a more diverse and inclusive Community. Now, as we made it to the second half of 2022, I want to take a moment to thank you for all you have done for the Atlas Corps Community. Thank you for inspiring our Community of 1,400+ social change leaders from 115 countries, and for supporting the Atlas Corps Team’s organizational learning and capacity as we make our exciting transition into the future. And most of all, thank you for your ongoing support during these past two years of uncertainty and unexpected activity.

Here are some of our highlights since we launched the #AtlasCorps2025 strategy….

Global Community - We welcome new Fellows, Scholars, and Atlas Corps Team Members into our growing Community.

In May, we welcomed our second year of 50 Hilton Prize Scholars from 31 countries, which includes the three new countries of Lesotho, New Zealand, and Portugal. We are thrilled to continue our collaboration with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Learn more at 2022 Hilton Humanitarian Prize Laureate Leadership Institute.
In April, we welcomed Class 45, which includes 7 Fellows from India, Nigeria, El Salvador, Indonesia, and Rwanda.
Meet our new Team Members at Atlas Corps, Sabrina Khan, our new Operations Manager, and Nada Nassereddin, our new Program Associate, at: https://atlascorps.org/our-leadership/

Opportunities - Learn more and SHARE!

Atlas Corps is hiring! - We seek Development Manager, Individuals & Events - Partnerships Senior Manager -Talent Acquisition Manager. Learn more at (and SHARE!) at https://atlascorps.org/join-the-team/
Fellow Recruitment - Our deadline is June 22, 2022, to apply for the Atlas Corps Fellowship. Please find the posting materials here.

Blog Highlight - Fellow writes a “Call to Action” in a blog post

Fellow Brighton (Class 41, Zimbabwe) opens a discussion about DEI as a transformative process that centers on human impact, rather than policies and numbers: "The post pandemic era requires a point of convergence that is going to change the trajectory of human history especially when it comes to diversity and inclusion. This is an opportunity that calls for transformative leaders to inspire their spheres of influence."
Click here to read his blog post in full.

Event Highlights - Atlas Corps launches the “Atlas Corps learns from” series

In March, our CEO Bidjan Nashat launched the “Atlas Corps learns from,” a series of conversations with global leaders on the best hiring practices for finding and retaining diverse and talented individuals
In his most recent conversation, Bidjan speaks with Tulaine Montgomery, Co-CEO of New Profit, about creating a lasting legacy and impact: “the challenge with ‘show and prove’ as your engine is that when you are busy showing and proving, you’re not doing a lot of listening and learning. So I think it’s important advice for folks early in their career to practice humility, to be curious, and take responsibility.” Click here to watch the full interview.

I truly cannot express enough the impact your ongoing support has on our Community, and we are happy to have you by our side as we move forward into the future!

Cheers-

Abby

P.S. Save the Date! July 20 is Bonus Day and Celebration of Service! Donations to Atlas Corps will be matched AND we will host a special virtual celebration at 12:00 PM ET. Details here!

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Feb 10, 2022
Did you hear? #AtlasCorps2025 is in process

By Abby Robinson | Chief Strategy Officer | Alumna Class 2 (USA)

Greetings!

How is your start to 2022? While it has been unexpected in many ways, we are proud to announce that we welcomed Atlas Corps Class 44 in January AND we are preparing to launch Atlas Corps Virtual Leadership Institute Cohort 8 this month!

Thank you for the ongoing support! You continue to inspire Atlas Corps and our global community of 1,200 leaders from 112 countries! Yes, we continue to expand and welcome two new countries in 2022: Ivory Coast and Singapore!

In addition, 2022 is an extra exciting year for Atlas Corps. We are launching #AtlasCorps2025 - a strategy process to create our path forward. Below, I shared an update from our CEO Bidjan.

We look forward to getting YOU involved! We invite you to stay tuned for the latest updates on the Atlas Corps Blog. You can also follow #AtlasCorps2025.

Cheers-

Abby

P.S. Atlas Corps is hiring! We have 3 positions: Programs Associate, Operations Manager, and Senior Development Manager. Learn more AND SHARE: atlascorps.org/join-the-team/

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Here are highlights from the blog post and video shared by our CEO Bidjan:

Three Reasons I Am Excited to Launch our #AtlasCorps2025 Strategy
Click here to read the full post

Based on my first few months getting to know Atlas Corps, I want to share with you the three reasons why I’m excited and energized to kick off the #AtlasCorps2025 strategy process in February:

There is a huge sense of urgency for us to do more for young people
We have a unique window to create opportunities regardless of location and background
We are bringing a great team of people and organizations together for this journey

Now is an opportunity for more equity in making skills and leadership potential, rather than location, the decisive factor in hiring young talent. And we are only scratching the surface of the iceberg of talent if the Atlas Corps Alumni and the thousands of annual applicants are any indicator.

Our great team will bring their experience from the first 15 years into this process. We will work with Jesse as a coach....We are also grateful to receive the pro-bono Board Fellow advice from the Boston Consulting Group‘s Steffyn and Rifaiyat....Our Atlas Corps Board members....And Adi, a MBA students at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business...More partners are joining soon and we will challenge ourselves every single day to be curious and think about scaling opportunities for talented young people across the globe to lead.

Links:

Watch Bidjan Discuss #AtlasCorps2025

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