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One Session. Two Lives Transformed.

Coaching Leaders. Funding Futures for Children & Women.

We mobilize experienced executives to deliver high-impact executive coaching to rising leaders. Each leader selects one of our nonprofit partners to support, each advancing children's education or women's empowerment.

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How the money moves

The coaching is donated. The donation goes straight to a partner.

Two gifts, in one direction, with nothing in the middle.

  1. Step 1 An executive coach donates their time
  2. Step 2 An emerging leader receives the coaching
  3. Step 3 A nonprofit partner receives the donation directly
GrowForward never touches the money. 100% of your donation goes directly to the partner you choose. GrowForward never receives, holds, or processes these funds.

What we stand on

Four pillars

Each of these describes something the organization actually does, not something it aspires to.

Intellectual Philanthropy

Experienced executives give their hardest-won asset — judgment — for 5–10 hours a month.

Transformative Growth

Leaders gain a confidential thinking partner in a sitting senior executive.

Proven Methodology

Every coach trains on Dr. Martin Seldman's executive coaching curriculum.

Radical Transparency

Zero Dilution: every dollar a leader gives reaches the nonprofit they choose.

Read what each pillar means in practice

Where the donations go

Four nonprofit partners

You choose one. You give on their site, with their payment system, under their receipt. We never see the transaction.

  • Oakland Promise

    Region:United States Focus:Children's education

    A cradle-to-career initiative providing Oakland's children with college savings accounts, scholarships, and mentorship — building a path to postsecondary success and breaking cycles of inequity.

    Give Directly to Oakland Promise

    Opens www.classy.org in a new tab. You give on their site, not ours.

  • Light of Life Trust

    Region:India Focus:Children's education and women's empowerment

    Breaking the cycle of rural poverty through the Anando Project — delivering women's empowerment and children's education in underserved communities across rural India.

    Give Directly to Light of Life Trust

    Opens lightoflifetrust.org in a new tab. You give on their site, not ours.

  • World Neighbors

    Region:Oklahoma City, OK Focus:International development

    An Oklahoma City-based international development organization since 1951, partnering with remote, underserved communities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America — training and empowering families with sustainable solutions to hunger, poverty, and disease.

    Give Directly to World Neighbors

    Opens wn.org in a new tab. You give on their site, not ours.

  • Unbound Scholarship

    Region:Global Focus:Youth education and vocational training

    Funding tuition, books, and vocational training for aspiring young adults in poverty — so students stay in school, break the cycle of poverty, and become role models in their communities. 63% of 2024 recipients were women.

    Give Directly to Unbound Scholarship

    Opens unbound.org in a new tab. You give on their site, not ours.

Two different kinds of giving

Which one you are looking at, always

These are never mixed, and never described together in a single sentence. Here is each one on its own.

Donations to partners

From coaching recipients

  • Goes 100% to the partner you choose
  • GrowForward never receives, holds, or processes it
  • No payment system of ours is involved at any point

100% of your donation goes directly to the partner you choose. GrowForward never receives, holds, or processes these funds.

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The Operations Fund

From Founding Donors

  • Funds admin, legal, and technology
  • Received by GrowForward
  • Never mixed with partner donations

Founding Donors cover what it costs to run GrowForward — the software, the legal work, the administration — so that the coaching stays free and the partner donations stay whole.

One Session. Two Lives Transformed.

One executive gives an hour. One emerging leader grows. One child or woman is touched by a gift.

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