David C Burke

Global Citizen Year is launching a new generation with the perspectives, skills and networks to solve humanity’s most urgent challenges. Each year we recruit a diverse corps of talented young people from across the globe. Using the formative transition into adulthood, we help them shape their values, identity, and purpose in ways that classroom learning alone cannot. Ultimately — in partnership with colleges, companies, and communities — we are unleashing a critical mass to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. Our current program offering is a gap semester abroad called Take Action Lab. While immersing in a new culture, Take Action Lab students apprentice with experienced changemakers addressing global challenges. Students learn to tackle global issues from the ground up by working alongside local experts advancing human rights, sustainability, and more. Through TAL, students expand their awareness of both global issues and their own sense of purpose, ultimately fueling a future of positive impact. Early impact data shows that our experiences shape lives in ways that traditional schooling does not. Our 1900+ alumni are thriving in college and careers. Investments from funders and partners support our commitment to equity and inclusion: >80% of participants receive need-based financial aid, >50% self-identify as BIPOC and >50% come from outside the U.S. We've built a talented global team, advisory council, & board of directors and in 2021 were named the #1 place to work in the U.S. by Outside Magazine. Our work has been featured in forums from PBS, NBC and The Chronicle of Higher Education and by thought leaders including Katie Couric and Nicholas Kristof. In 2021, in recognition of our progress and potential, we received a $12 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. Today, we’re scaling our model to the size of what’s needed: a new rite of passage that equips the next generation with the curiosity, conviction & courage our world needs now.

Global Citizen Year is launching a new generation with the perspectives, skills and networks to solve humanity’s most urgent challenges. Each year we recruit a diverse corps of talented young people from across the globe. Using the formative transition into adulthood, we help them shape their values, identity, and purpose in ways that classroom learning alone cannot. Ultimately — in partnership with colleges, companies, and communities — we are unleashing a critical mass to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. Our current program offering is a gap semester abroad called Take Action Lab. While immersing in a new culture, Take Action Lab students apprentice with experienced changemakers addressing global challenges. Students learn to tackle global issues from the ground up by working alongside local experts advancing human rights, sustainability, and more. Through TAL, students expand their awareness of both global issues and their own sense of purpose, ultimately fueling a future of positive impact. Early impact data shows that our experiences shape lives in ways that traditional schooling does not. Our 1900+ alumni are thriving in college and careers. Investments from funders and partners support our commitment to equity and inclusion: >80% of participants receive need-based financial aid, >50% self-identify as BIPOC and >50% come from outside the U.S. We've built a talented global team, advisory council, & board of directors and in 2021 were named the #1 place to work in the U.S. by Outside Magazine. Our work has been featured in forums from PBS, NBC and The Chronicle of Higher Education and by thought leaders including Katie Couric and Nicholas Kristof. In 2021, in recognition of our progress and potential, we received a $12 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. Today, we’re scaling our model to the size of what’s needed: a new rite of passage that equips the next generation with the curiosity, conviction & courage our world needs now.

Makena Capital Management, LLC was formed in 2005 by senior executives from the Stanford Management Company and leading practitioners from elite North American endowments and foundations. We provide investment expertise, scale, and premier investment access to our client base of multigenerational pools of capital, including endowments, foundations, family offices, pensions and sovereign wealth funds. Alternative and private asset investing lies at the core of our investment process; we believe alternative and private assets play a key role in preserving and growing capital over a long time horizon by diversifying risk and return streams. We offer access to these selective investment opportunities through our discretionary, commingled vehicles: a multi-asset class, endowment portfolio, and single-asset class portfolios providing targeted exposure designed to complement a broad portfolio. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley in Menlo Park, California, our nearly 75-person team is solely focused on providing superior risk-adjusted returns and world class service to our clients.

Makena Capital Management, LLC was formed in 2005 by senior executives from the Stanford Management Company and leading practitioners from elite North American endowments and foundations. We provide investment expertise, scale, and premier investment access to our client base of multigenerational pools of capital, including endowments, foundations, family offices, pensions and sovereign wealth funds. Alternative and private asset investing lies at the core of our investment process; we believe alternative and private assets play a key role in preserving and growing capital over a long time horizon by diversifying risk and return streams. We offer access to these selective investment opportunities through our discretionary, commingled vehicles: a multi-asset class, endowment portfolio, and single-asset class portfolios providing targeted exposure designed to complement a broad portfolio. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley in Menlo Park, California, our nearly 75-person team is solely focused on providing superior risk-adjusted returns and world class service to our clients.

Stanford Management Company (SMC) is the office within Stanford University that invests the Endowment and other financial assets to provide long-term support to the University. The Endowment and other gifts to the University support the academic mission. These financial resources provide vital support to the University’s mission by advancing pioneering research, supporting a world-class faculty, and funding student financial aid. SMC provides expert investment management and stewardship of the Merged Pool, which includes substantially all of Stanford’s investable endowment assets.