Developing, promoting, applying, and sharing innovations for scaling impact
Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net)
GAN-Net is a growing community of GAN leaders, researchers, funders and other stakeholders who are committed to developing global action networks that serve the public good. Participants learn and work together to build the capacity of GANs to cultivate partnerships, steward initiatives, and achieve results. GAN-Net participants also collaborate to advance the collective influence of global networks to improve social, economic, and environmental outcomes worldwide.
The Mission of GAN-Net
GAN-Net's mission is to strengthen the capacity and increase the legitimacy of multi-sector, global network to address urgent sustainability and security issues: social, economic, political and environmental.
Our strategy is to do this by coordinating events that connect leaders in the field and promote learning, innovation, and attention to what GANs are accomplishing worldwide on a range of crucial issues. GAN-Net works with GANs to increase their legitimacy, improve their results and build their capacity.
The GAN-Net Council
Council is the primary planning body for GAN-Net. Its responsibilities are to:
- Cultivate relationships with non-participating GANs
- Exercise primary responsibility in strategic development, in consultation with the Board and GAN-Net Global
- Serve as a key voice and face of GAN-Net, liaising with core constituencies, and serving as GAN-Net ambassadors in helping to build the organization's profile, credibility and impact
- Identify needs/opportunities for new GAN formation
- Represent GAN-Net in relevant professional and issue-based forums
- Appoint half the Board
- Support GAN-Net Global in executing its responsibilities
- Establish rules and procedures for executing its responsibilities
GAN-Net's Council comprises of up to 18 Councillors with a majority being from GANs. The remainder are drawn either from geographies and issue areas in which GAN-Net is working, or may work, in the future, as well as other qualified individuals. The GAN-Net Board is constituting the initial Council; thereafter Council will select its own membership. The Council will meet at minimum annually in-person for two days.
