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Number of employeeS

53

Year of Registration

2007

Number of Followers

2

Annual income

US$ 4.75 million

Category of SGO

Non-profit

Country

Jordan

Chief Executive Officer

Generations For Peace’s CEO, Mark Clark, Reflects on the Constant Nurturing of his Organization

"We’ve Gone Through Proof of Concept in Very Diverse Conflict Contexts"

By The [.] Newsroom From thedotgood's Editorial Desk
March 8, 2018
thedotgood's take
What's so special with that SGO.
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There are few iconic social good organizations (SGOs) that truly capture the success of the nonprofit sphere. Despite its young age, Generations For Peace just may be one of them. At first glance, its grassroots peace-building mission seems nearly impossible. Asking youths rather than governments to bring about peace may sound a bit naïve. But when you face GFP’s army of young, articulate, peace-pushing volunteers, then you understand that something big is going on here. There seems to be no limit to the organization’s ambition and discipline. What began as a peace-through-sport initiative of the Jordan Olympic Committee has now trained nearly 9,000 peace-building volunteers in 50 countries, with such tools as Arts, Advocacy, Empowerment, and Dialogue for Peace augmenting the original Sport For Peace approach, delivering sustainable impact.

In conflict zones, communities often reject other communities, particularly those perceived...

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There are few iconic social good organizations (SGOs) that truly capture the success of the nonprofit sphere. Despite its young age, Generations For Peace just may be one of them. At first glance, its grassroots peace-building mission seems nearly impossible. Asking youths rather than governments to bring about peace may sound a bit naïve. But when you face GFP’s army of young, articulate, peace-pushing volunteers, then you understand that something big is going on here. There seems to be no limit to the organization’s ambition and discipline. What began as a peace-through-sport initiative of the Jordan Olympic Committee has now trained nearly 9,000 peace-building volunteers in 50 countries, with such tools as Arts, Advocacy, Empowerment, and Dialogue for Peace augmenting the original Sport For Peace approach, delivering sustainable impact.

In conflict zones, communities often reject other communities, particularly those perceived as different. This is where Generations For Peace makes a difference: the organization mentors young people to bring about powerful and desperately needed social change by building mutual respect, tolerance, and trust through dialogue. Further, GFP recognizes the importance of reflecting deeply on its own work and the many projects it conducts. The organization is constantly innovating, experimenting, evaluating, and then scaling up the projects that work. For instance, the organization is currently growing its programs in response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis by 263%.

Generations For Peace brings its multi-pronged model to bear on all key scoring criteria. In 2015, GFP climbed up the ladder from rank #94 to #32, at a time when many other organizations saw their rank drop or stagnate. To deliver impact as well as innovation at the grassroots level requires dedication to developing a new culture around peace, not to mention a great sense of motivation. Perhaps some of GFP’s drive comes from its CEO, Mark Clark, who has brought passion and discipline to the organization over the last 10 years.

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Mission statement
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To empower youth to lead and cascade sustainable change in communities experiencing conflict through world-class free education in conflict transformation and the use of sport, art, advocacy, dialogue, empowerment, and media for peacebuilding.

We are a global community. We are Generations for Peace. Please… Pass it on! 

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To empower youth to lead and cascade sustainable change in communities experiencing conflict through world-class free education in conflict transformation and the use of sport, art, advocacy, dialogue, empowerment, and media for peacebuilding.

We are a global community. We are Generations for Peace. Please… Pass it on! 

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Impact

LATEST ANNUAL INCOME
US$ 4.75 million
Previous Annual Income
US$ 3.89 million
Latest Surplus/Deficit
US$ 57,974
Latest Net Assets
US$ 1.72 million
Name of Auditing Firm

Price water house coopers PWC

LATEST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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COUNTRY (OR COUNTRIES) WHERE ACTIVE
Jordan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, USA, Pakistan, Nigeria and 46 other countries
Latest ANNUAL REPORT
TAX YEAR END
December 31

Governance

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Chief Executive Officer
Lama Hattab
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Lama brings over 17 years of experience in designing and implementing programmes to address issues of violence, systemic bias, and hatred across Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She holds a master’s degree in Social Cohesion and Conflict Resolution from the Open University of Catalonia in Spain. Lama has held leadership roles in prominent international NGOs, including Head of Delegation at Terre des Hommes in Lebanon and Deputy Country Director Head of Programmes at DanChurchAid in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Lama worked at GFP’s Amman, Jordan, headquarters from 2008 to 2020 as Programmes Director, where she played a vital role in establishing and developing the Programmes Department and overseeing the successful implementation of over 35 local and international programmes. Dedicated to improving the quality of life for children and marginalised groups, Lama is an avid advocate for women and youth empowerment through sports. She also serves as a board member of the Free to Run organisation.
Has Held position since
2024
Board Gender balance
4 f / 4 m (50% f / 50% m)
Number of Employees
53
Number of Volunteers
22,626

History

Since 2007, when Generations for Peace (GFP) was founded as a peace-through-sport initiative of the Jordan Olympic Committee, our journey has been a quest to turn passion into impact. We have always focused on supporting people to implement grassroots peacebuilding activities in their communities to address burning issues of hatred, intolerance, exclusion, inequality, and violence, which they are passionate about changing. Our quest to ensure their passion and effort secure ever-greater impact has driven the continuous evolution of our approach and our organisation over the last 15 years.

From our initial focus on sport as a vehicle for youth engagement and behaviour change, and as we grew, we have learnt from failures and successes in diverse conflict contexts and evaluated, adapted, and refined our approach to include six tools: sport, arts, advocacy, dialogue, empowerment, and media. Our peacebuilding toolkit has allowed us to easily tailor...

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Since 2007, when Generations for Peace (GFP) was founded as a peace-through-sport initiative of the Jordan Olympic Committee, our journey has been a quest to turn passion into impact. We have always focused on supporting people to implement grassroots peacebuilding activities in their communities to address burning issues of hatred, intolerance, exclusion, inequality, and violence, which they are passionate about changing. Our quest to ensure their passion and effort secure ever-greater impact has driven the continuous evolution of our approach and our organisation over the last 15 years.

From our initial focus on sport as a vehicle for youth engagement and behaviour change, and as we grew, we have learnt from failures and successes in diverse conflict contexts and evaluated, adapted, and refined our approach to include six tools: sport, arts, advocacy, dialogue, empowerment, and media. Our peacebuilding toolkit has allowed us to easily tailor and adapt activities to local situations and target groups, and our programmes often now use a combination of these tools. We have trained over 22,626 volunteers and reached 1,449,208 children, youth, and adults in 52 countries across the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Through all the changes and adaptations, key elements have remained constant along this incredible journey. All our programmes promote four values: youth leadership, community empowerment, active tolerance, and responsible citizenship. In all our work, we focus on four drivers of change:  innovation, quality, impact, and sustainability. Amidst the recent upsurge of hate speech, prejudice, and violent extremism; economic drivers of fragility; persistent barriers to participation for youth, for refugees for girls and women, and those with disabilities; and climate change impacts increasing vulnerabilities, displacement, and conflict risks, we feel the urgency of our mission and growing demand for our support to turn passion to impact. The quest goes on! 

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Legal Status
Tax-exempt charitable non-profit registered in Jordan; Tax-exempt charitable non-profit 501(c)(3) registered in the U.S.; Local NGO registrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Sudan. Local NGO registration is currently in progress in Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Republic of North Macedonia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Rwanda.
Year of registration
2007
BYLAWS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
Yes
BYLAWS PROVIDED ON REQUEST
Yes

Contact

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HQ LOCATION ADDRESS
Al Hussein Youth and Sport City
Amman 11196
Jordan
SOCIAL NETWORKS
WEBSITE
MAIN CONTACT EMAIL
info@gfp.ngo
+962 6 500 4600