Jennifer Corriero

Responsible for cultivating leadership across the organization to meet organizational vision and objectives while fundraising and managing multimillion annual budget. Design and facilitation of Education for Social Innovation Professional Learning course. Responsibilities also include strategic planning, capacity building among team members, project, project management, partnership development, advisor and board relations. TakingITGlobal has been honored with various awards including the Tech Museum Award in the Education Category, the 2005 Canadian Awards for International Cooperation, the Global Youth Talent Award by the Government of Extremadura, Spain and the 2013 Intercultural Innovation Award (UNAOC & BMW Group). Our innovative approaches have also led to the 2020 Humanitarian Award by the Psychology Association of Canada. We have worked with youth as experts as well as industry experts across legal, accounting, technology and social innovation sectors to develop comprehensive application and grantee management systems and processes to build skills and capacity of youth participants as well as manage a high volume of payment processing. Our organization has been a primary delivery partner organization of the micro-grants as part of Canada Service Corps between 2017-2022. TakingITGlobal has provided over 7,000 youth with micro-grants to implement community-based projects with a total granting allocation of close to 7.8 million during the 5 years of operating. 98% of youth feel they have developed new leadership skills. This experience with CSC is built upon over 15 years of organizational experience in offering grants for youth-led projects globally, and across sectors, including with the Library of Alexandria (Egypt), Pearson Education, the Government of Ontario, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, RBC, CIBC, Scotiabank, Intel, the Government of Nunavut, 8 family foundations and 5 federal government departments as funding partners in 2021.