Thank you to all the amazing partners of the Global Innovation Exchange!

We are thrilled that you are interested in becoming an official partner of the Exchange, and thank you in advance for your collaboration, thought-leadership, and pioneering work in innovation and development that have helped create the opportunity for the Exchange.

The Exchange Partner

As a partner of the Exchange your organization supports the Global Innovation Exchange’s vision to modernize the international development industry through an online marketplace that connects innovators with funders and on-the-ground organizations to test, improve, and scale up the innovations that address humanity’s greatest challenges. As well as to highlight and inform the world of what great programs, activities, organizations, innovations, conversations, etc. are already occurring and engage the world with those activities.

What it means to be a Partner

Partnering with the Exchange is easy, it isn’t about contracts, or paperwork, it is about sharing values and vision.

We ask partners to believe and embrace these values:

1. That we all must work together, share information, and data so that the right innovation and solution can be accessed by those in need.
2. We believe in democratizing development so that we increase the access and impact that the average person around the world can have in tackling humanities greatest challenges.
3. We are innovation agnostic and we respect that good innovation should be considered across all sources.

Partner Responsibilities

We believe that each person has the power to change the world, and we believe the Exchange can help. As a partner of the Exchange, your responsibilities include (as appropriate to your organization):

1. Provide your organizations name and logo to be represented as one of the thought-leadership partners and contributors to the Exchange on the website and related materials.
2. Encourage your staff, experts, and other relevant audiences to use the Exchange, as appropriate to your activities and aligned with your strategic objectives.
3. Share relevant innovations by posting them or facilitating their addition to the Exchange, which will connect the innovations with additional resources and support.
4. Maintain program and organization pages on the Exchange where visitors can learn more about your organization and innovative programs.
5. Post your “Calls to action” and funding opportunities on the Exchange so solvers and innovators can find and participate with them.
6. Provide feedback and ideas on how the Exchange can be improved to add value to its users.
7. Use other aspects of the Exchange as relevant to your organization.

Partner Leadership

Many partners will have a “special sauce” that is unique to them, and the Exchange should leverage that. So in addition to the principles above, your organization can take a more specific role and lead in the Exchange, examples include:

1. Reviewing and responding to “solutions sought” posted in the Exchange
2. Provide content or newstream to the Exchange
3. Serve as the transaction engine for direct funding to innovators
4. Provide back-end functionality to the Exchange
5. Testing innovations highlighted on the exchange in the field and providing feedback.
6. Serving as an advisor on how to evaluate and vet innovations in the Exchange.
7. Becoming a governance level partner
8. Provide feedback and recommendations for future exchange functionality.
9. Curate a community around innovation evaluation (for example)
10. And others for you to suggest..

Partner Benefits

Whats the benefit to being a partner?

1. Be a part of the evolution and modernization of the development industry through the Exchange.
2. Help determine future functionality, changes, etc. see and influence the “inner-workings” of the Exchange.
3. Be an advocate for your organization and the type of Exchange user your organization represents.
4. Use the Exchange to highlight your organizations work, as appropriate.
5. Post relevant events of the Exchange where you seek public participation, so the Exchange can drive people to those events and amplify them.
6. Post resources (e.g. tools, training materials, etc.) that could be of value to the Exchange innovation community thereby demonstrating your organizations thought leadership.
7. Post any evaluations/reviews that you have conducted of innovations in the Exchange to contribute to the collective market intelligence.
8. When you are seeking an innovation, you can reference the Exchange for ideas.
9. Amplify calls, as well as work with the Exchange managers to source and drive information to relevant Exchange audiences who are interested in that topic/information.
10. Contribute to or even curate or co-curate a topic on the Exchange, that your organization has specific expertise in.
11. Access the Exchange to compare and contrast innovations, your currently fund, with others available in the space, consider the competitive landscape of innovations for innovations you are considering supporting.
12. Check the Exchange and innovations to see if there is already an entity that might be providing a similar or same solution, investigate additional value propositions proposed by other solvers and innovators.
13. Seek partners that are like-minded and working in complementary space.

We are excited to add you as a partner on the Global Innovation Exchange and look forward to our collaboration together.

Become a Partner

If you agree to the values, and the partner responsibilities then:

1. Email partners@globalinnovationexchange.com, Provide your name, basic org info, a good PNG file of your logo.
2. A Exchange rep will contact you and confirm and then walk you through the next steps to take.
3. If you want to offer up some “special sauce” (things your org does well that we could incorporate into the Exchange) discuss those with the Exchange rep.

Your done!

Governance Level Partnership: