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Global Potential (GP) is a volunteer-based, educational, social entrepreneurial, ''{organizational status : "non-profit"? "international non-profit"? "NGO"}'' that provides youth and communities the leadership and entrepreneurial skills to createrenewed life perspectives to affect positive change locally and globally.

Mission
Global Potential’s mission is to empower youth and communities around the world to energize each other through education, international service learning, social entrepreneurship and cultural exchange.

Program
Each year, Global Potential trains 500 youth aged between 15 to 23. These youth have high potential and self-vision to become leaders, changemakers and social entrepreneurs in their urban and rural low-income communities around the world. Most GP participants are first generation immigrant youth and originate from dozens of countries. Global Potential provides youth and communities the leadership and entrepreneurial skills to create renewed life perspectives to affect positive change locally and globally. GP employs an holistic year and a half methodology that trains youth to become leaders through


 * media advocacy;
 * social entrepreneurship;
 * global awareness;
 * community development and,
 * service-learning.

GP empowers hundreds of passionate and dedicated volunteers to impart the GP programs.

Northern Hemisphere Global Potential operates out of 16 high schools and GED programs in the US, France, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua. GP’s central headquarters are located New York City, with considerable work carried out in Brooklyn, Bronx, Harlem, Queens and Washington Heights. GP Boston supports students living in Roxbury, Fenway Dorchester and East Boston. GP France is located in Paris, and works with youth from La Courneuve and Le Blanc Mesnil.

Southern Hemisphere Global Potential carefully selects rural villages to welcome GP youth for 45 days of international cultural exchange and community projects during the months of July and August. GP actively works in marginalized rural villages in the southwest Dominican Republic (Batey 1, Batey 7, Batey 8, Batey 9, Batey Cuchilla and Los Blocks de Mena); in Haiti, (Cité Soleil, Terre Froide and Bas Gormand); and Nicaragua (El Hatillo and Las Minas, in Matagalpa Department).

The weekly workshops occur in partner schools and GP offices.

Brief History
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"for-social-profit"
GP attaches itself to a growing movement to redefine the non-profit or non-governmental organization field in positive terms by re-branding itself as “for-social-profit” organizations. Rather than define itself with a negative term (“not-for-financial-profit”) GP prefer affirmative definitions, as generating “Social-profit.” The for-social-profit movement is also closely linked to the concept of the “Triple Bottom Line,” recognizing the Economic, Environmental, and Social profit that all organizations and companies can theoretically produce.