Gonzalo Duarte, B.Ed., Mpnl Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Canada Area

After returning from working overseas, I found a professional home collaborating with 8 micro-teams to promote the development, growth, and efficacy of 450 individuals in 150 SMEs and optimized their organizations’ social impact.• Championed CSI’s strategic vision and organizational values in an energetic co-working space to create an optimal intersection of people and programs to connect and scale diverse types of social purpose enterprises.• Collaborated across 8 horizontal/vertical and internal/external facing business units to plan, execute, and continually improve operations and offerings at the emblematic coworking community called CSI Annex.• Provided day-to-day leadership and coordination between 8 cross-functional teams and 24 colleagues, such as: - Supervising animation staff to develop inclusive processes and content for efficient member onboarding, customer service excellence, and on-the-job training for 20 volunteers semi-annually. - Co-facilitating experiential learning, storytelling resources, and partnership development with program staff. - Organizing social innovation learning experiences with faculty, staff, and students from visiting institutions. - Implementing logistics with the event teams for meetings, summits, and town halls that gathered community intelligence, shared knowledge and inspiration, and marked rituals and celebrations. - Aligning with the communications team to engage internal and external stakeholders to promote the exchange of knowledge, skills, goods and services related to building the Next Economy and the 17 SDGs. - Participating in an org-wide digital platform consolidation project and change management process. - Designing with the facilities team a 5 storey, 100 year-old building that welcomes and fosters connections. - Strategizing with the leasing team to sell our vision and meet occupancy, retention, and revenue goals. - Projecting and monitoring with the finance team an annual budget of $1.7 million.

Managua, Nicaragua & Toronto, Canada

After finding my passion for experiential learning as a university and high school community outreach coordinator, I created an organization to facilitate service and awareness-raising experiences in bi-racial and cross-class settings.• 7 years leadership experience of a lean social purpose organization with 44 staff that engaged 1,500 Canadian participants in 200+ community projects with 15,000 beneficiaries and multiple public and private stakeholders.• Impact? We reduced barriers and increased access of marginalized families to housing, water, health, and education resources. We increased the capacity of local staff, community leaders, and cross-sector partnerships to achieve their goals. Canadians and Nicaraguans lifted their personal agency and sense of local and global citizenship.• Proven ability to envision, design, budget, plan, implement, and evaluate initiatives to produce positive financial and social results year after year. Brought culturally, socially, and economically diverse people together across borders to identify common interests and implement solutions within communities facing multiple challenges. • Oversight of legal and administrative affairs and hands-on organizational management and strategic planning. Skilled at asset mapping, gathering stakeholders, communicating a vision, engaging staff, recruiting volunteers, and building strong relationships between clients, communities, and business, faith-based, civic, and non-governmental agencies. • Effective application and balancing of social entrepreneurship, community development, and cross-cultural service learning knowledge, skills, and principles.• Proved that a private business can deliver public benefit by transforming the governance of a social enterprise that I founded in 2001 into a registered Canadian charity, Compañeros Partners, in 2018.

Kingston, Ontario

• Facilitated academic discovery workshops with supporting faculty and student learning activities.• Recruited 20 student mentors and 90 youth leadership participants from across Canada.• Facilitated 60+ small group learning events with faith-based organizations across Ontario.• Developed, marketed, budgeted, and coordinated 30-day student leadership program.• Co-chaired professional development committee for 50 peers in Lilly Endowment Inc network.

Master Of Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership, School Of Public Policy And Administration

Canada's first graduate program in this field. 12 courses in Foundations of Philanthropy, Policy & Legal Environment, Research Methods.

Bachelor Of Education - Bed, Education

Qualifications in junior to senior level geography, history, and world religions