We deliver programs and opportunities that prepare the next generation of leaders to amplify their voices in decision-making spaces.
Since 2009, Fora (formerly G(irls)20), has been investing in young changemakers experiencing gender-based discrimination, and working to make decision-making spaces more inclusive and equitable. Through renowned leadership, advocacy, and community-building programs, we help young trailblazers gain new skills, confidence, supportive networks, and opportunities to build gender equity movements, advance in their career trajectories and change the status quo.
These young leaders aren’t waiting on the sidelines for their moment to make their impact on the world — they are already making change. We’re there to help them do it.
SIGNATURE Programs
Fora's Rise on Boards program is building more equitable and inclusive boardrooms across Canada. By training and placing emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds at the board table for the first time, Rise on Boards is reimagining decision-making spaces.
The Global Summit takes global action to advance gender equity. As Fora’s biggest gender equity program, the Global Summit brings together accomplished leaders ages 18-25 from around the world for a year of leadership development, advocacy, and policy-creation training.
We want to ensure all spaces of power feel incomplete without young women, and everyone marginalized by their gender, in the room. Through research and connecting young leaders with opportunities to make their voices heard, we’re addressing root causes of gender inequity, and reimagining who leadership is for.
12
GLOBAL SUMMITS HOSTED
50+
COUNTRIES WITH COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS
170
Young Directors placed on boards across Canada
110
partnering boards across Canada
200K+
engaged community members
Our Recent Evolution
In recent years, we have seen a seismic shift in calls for justice and equity around the world, with our community rightly demanding more from the equity movement. In 2020, our program participants, partners, staff, board, and broader community helped inform our new strategy: one that’s participant-informed and uses an intersectional lens that especially centers the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and racialized community members, the diversity of genders, and the lived experiences of youth around the world.
What emerged was a natural shift in the presentation of our organization, and G(irls)20 evolved to Fora.
Fora is the plural of Forum and is defined as a meeting place of ideas. This is the space we try to create as we continue to work with young leaders and established institutions to advocate for gender equity.
Learn more about our story here.
