Fora: Network for Change is a 4-star charity with a good results reporting grade. It is financially transparent and its overhead costs are within Ci's reasonable range for overhead spending. 

Founded in 2009, Fora: Network for Change, formerly known as G(irls) 20, aims to promote women and gender-diverse young people by training them in leadership skills and placing them in positions of power. Its two programs are its global summit and its Girls on Boards Program. 

Its global summit started as a way for young women to speak directly to G20 leaders before the G20 summit. Fora gives its delegates a week of leadership training before its 1-day summit. The delegates write a communique together and present it to G20 leaders at the summit. In F2020, it selected 27 delegates, and an additional 900 people attended the summit. In total 47 countries were represented.  

Fora's Girls on Boards program takes 30 young women, gives them 3 days of leadership training, and then matches them to non-profits where they serve as a voting board member for a year. F2020 was the first year in which all 30 participants were successfully matched to boards. In addition to the 30 women in the program, 180 other people attended the leadership training conference.

Fora is a small charity. In F2020, it received $425k in donations. It also received $269k in government funding, making up 39% of total revenues. Administrative costs were 18% of revenues and fundraising costs were 10% of donations. This results in total overhead spending of 28%. For every dollar donated, 72 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.  

Fora has $461k in funding reserves which could cover 1.3 years of annual program costs. 

This charity report is an update that has been sent to Fora: Network for Change for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.  

Updated August 26, 2021 by Asha McMullin.