
Annual Impact Report 2022
It is time now to take a few moments and rejoice in our collective Impact from 2022, a bonafide testament to our footprint as Global Citizens on the world.!
For 25+ years, the Melton Foundation has been enabling and promoting Global Citizenship through multiple domains, formats, platforms, and engagements. Our focus has been on impressing impact in the realms of an interconnected world and making Global Citizenship accessible at the grassroots.
Fostering Global Citizens – At the Melton Foundation, we are committed to supporting young leaders to realize their potential towards building an equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world by becoming drivers of social change. We’ve developed these parameters based on our definition of Global Citizenship as:
Acts of Global Citizenship – Every year, Melton Fellows and Global Citizens around the world embark on designing and executing their Acts of Global Citizenship. ‘Acts’ are anchored in local realities and rely on grassroots-based action. By employing design thinking and ethical leadership skills and leveraging their support network, they script tales of local impact which directly affect communities and bring about tangible changes.
Global and Local Events – Furthermore, we regularly host events in global and hub communities – Virtual Global Citizenship Week, Climathons, Ideathons, SDG Innovation Challenge to name a few – often yield practical solutions, many of which have advanced to achieve fruition and solve the problems they targeted. Our global outreach constitutes collaborations with like-minded partners and engaging with Global Citizenship advocates, SDG practitioners, and young changemakers to amplify and boost the visibility of our social impact.
Action Grants – Our endeavor to support transformative innovations does not end here. We extend aids, funds, and grants to impact projects – our effort of investing in a brighter future. With our grants, we encourage collaboration across domains, regions, and backgrounds in pursuit of leveraging Global Citizenship practice to advance the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
It is time now to take a few moments and rejoice in our collective Impact from 2022, a bonafide testament to our footprint as Global Citizens on the world.!
A leading proponent of global citizenship practice worldwide, the Melton Foundation celebrated 30 years of shaping young minds through experiential learning, skill development, and intercultural exposure in 2021! We have built a 500+ network of Fellows who carry out impact projects around the world, and our association with the 17 UN SDGs further acts as an impetus for our Fellows and partners to join hands and carve a better future together through actionable, and sustainable programs.
For us, 2020 was the time to rise to the challenges and use the presence of obstacles to create a positive impetus for action around Global Citizenship.
The Melton Foundation looks back at over 25 years of shaping young minds through experiential learning, skill development, and intercultural exposure. Join us as we walk you through all of the collaborative action, thought and ethical leadership initiatives, and transformative experiences that shaped 2019!
Since its ratification in 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become the hallmark of sustainable development in the modern era. In order to achieve these goals by 2030, however, organizations, governments, individuals, and civil society must engage with the SDGs beyond the business-as-usual practices. With the SDGs as a reference framework for global issues, a simple Act can change the world!
Our Global Citizenship Program is designed to give Melton Fellows the tools and skills they need to work together across boundaries to address the big challenges the world is facing. We recruit young social change leaders with great potential, who are looking for a chance to develop their skills, into a lifelong network.
We host multiple engagements throughout our annual calendar in diverse formats, panels, and audiences! An intercultural and multi-domain environment provides the ideal conditions for innovative, sustainable ideas to take root! From marathon events to roundtable conversations with experts, we aim to reach and associate with change agents and organizations far and wide.
Year-round, we offer grants to Melton Fellows based on an impact-oriented evaluation process to allocate funds that serve as a crucial financial backbone, while helping shape and refine the desired end result, which can be monitored and supported going forward.
Vernice Richards, USA
Vigneshwar Shankar, India
Francisca Cantos, Chile
The world needs more problem solvers who can work on common solutions across borders. Your donation will enable a new way of thinking and acting: a future generation of global citizens, working together to solve the world’s pressing challenges!