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PARTNER insights
108.4 million
people worldwide are forcibly displaced
76%
of forcibly displaced peoples are hosted by low- and middle-income countries
70%
of our partner organizations are women-led
100%
of our partner organizations have teams of less than 50
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05/22/2024
Film Screening: What Is Belonging?
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27/6/2025
World Leadership School: Salmon River for School Heads
8/7/2025
World Leadership School: EmpowHER
5/2/2025
World Leadership School Educator Travel: Azrou, Morocco
5/2/2025
World Leadership School Educator Travel: El Paso / Borderland
30/6/2025
In-Sight Collaborative Mentorship Program (6-week)
27/1/2025
In-Sight Collaborative Mentorship Program (10-Week)
Building Trust: Insights from the 2024 National GEO Conference
History of EMA: Chapter 1
Introducing rhizōma: Where Empathy and Education Lead to Action

Stories of Impact

Explore diverse voices from across our impact network.

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Kara Grace Hess
September 5, 2024
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Young people make up about 75% of EMA’s team. They share their experiences working in the organization and how it has made a difference in their lives.

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Kara Grace Hess
September 6, 2024
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EMA’s Devon Davey, Director of Partner & Organizational Thriving, discusses how she strives to unlock the potential of individuals and organizations through consulting and coaching work with our team and our partners.

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Kara Grace Hess
August 5, 2024
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In-Sight Collaborative’s Mentorship Program provides a safe and welcoming introduction to leadership in the humanitarian sector with opportunities to refine key skills and learn how to better address inequity.

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Upcoming Events

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VIRTUAL

In-Sight Collaborative Mentorship Program (10-Week)

This 10-week virtual mentorship program is designed to provide training and experience in the nonprofit sector as it relates to humanitarianism and development.
In-Sight Collaborative
January 27, 2025
5 min read
Coming Soon

This mentorship program from In-Sight Collaborative is designed to provide training and experience in the nonprofit sector as it relates to humanitarianism and development. The program is designed to be accessible to people who may not have access to humanitarian training otherwise. 

Program dates:
January 27 - April 7, 2025

This program will be available in English only.

Participants will be given the opportunity to: 

  • discover a better sense of self and community as humanitarians
  • imagine and conceptualize interventions rooted in empathetic system design and accompaniment
  • increase their network and knowledge to contribute to the paradigm shift in forced displacement and larger humanitarian sector towards equity 

Since its inception in 2020, the mentorship program has been attended by hundreds of participants from over 35 countries around the world. We believe that anyone with the right mindset and a willingness to engage can be an effective part of the humanitarian response from any background, profession, or sector. It is one of our goals to help inspire future humanitarian leaders and give them the tools and resources they need to participate in a meaningful way.

Throughout the program, participants will be given the opportunity to explore the following areas of the non-profit and humanitarian sector:

  • History of the humanitarian sector, humanitarian principles, and current trends
  • Planning, assessment, implementation, and evaluation of humanitarian interventions
  • Strategic planning within the non-profit industrial complex and other structural challenges
  • Ethical fundraising and advocacy initiatives
  • Community-based research
  • Human-centered leadership
  • Power of narratives and storytelling
  • Wellness and community care for humanitarians

Click here for more information and to apply.

About In-Sight Collaborative

In-Sight Collaborative is a humanitarian NGO founded in 2016 by a group of friends volunteering in refugee camps in Northern Greece. In an acute humanitarian crisis spanning acres and acres of farm fields, train tracks, gas station parking lots, and abandoned hotels, our founding members recognized that the current lens we had grown up with to view the world was dangerously misleading. We saw a need for more collaboration, for more championing of the agency of the people who call these camps home.

In-Sight Collaborative is a facilitator to those in the humanitarian sector who recognize that cultivating an equitable aid system starts with oneself. Moving from its direct aid model, In-Sight Collaborative now works to embody the accompaniment model. We educate humanitarians to be intentional and empowered to cultivate a more equitable system by providing educational tools, programs, and platforms to address harmful policies and practices.

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World Leadership School Educator Travel: El Paso / Borderland

During this immersive visit to the Borderland Region, educators will learn about the complexity of immigration and to gather tools, resources, and perspectives to enhance pedagogy..
World Leadership School
February 5, 2025
5 min read
Coming Soon

Each year, World Leadership School runs life- and career-changing travel programs for educators, which allow them to be students again and reimagine their practice. Their educator programs include working with local NGOs, interviews with local leaders, and an active and open investigation into local cultures. Along the way, they leverage the group’s wisdom and experience for deep reflections around personal and professional growth.

These programs allow educators to reconnect, recenter, and reimagine. Educators reconnect with their original passion for teaching; they recenter themselves in a supportive and safe community of educators; and they reimagine their teaching practice through World Leadership School’s suite of Purpose Learning tools.

During this immersive visit to the Borderland Region, educators will use the area around El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico to learn about the complexity of immigration and to gather tools, resources, and perspectives to enhance pedagogy. The goal of this program is to allow participants to experience all the perspectives around this complex issue to return to school with new ideas, tools, and resources for teaching immigration.

For more detailed program information, please click HERE.

Questions? Please email jessica@worldleadershipschool.com

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World Leadership School Educator Travel: Azrou, Morocco

This 8-day immersive program provides a unique opportunity for educators to immerse themselves in a new culture and bring new concepts and perspectives back into their classrooms.
World Leadership School
February 5, 2025
5 min read
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Each year, World Leadership School runs life- and career-changing travel programs for educators, which allow them to be students again and reimagine their practice. Their educator programs include working with local NGOs, interviews with local leaders, and an active and open investigation into local cultures. Along the way, they leverage the group’s wisdom and experience for deep reflections around personal and professional growth.

These programs allow educators to reconnect, recenter, and reimagine. Educators reconnect with their original passion for teaching; they recenter themselves in a supportive and safe community of educators; and they reimagine their teaching practice through World Leadership School’s suite of Purpose Learning tools.

This exciting 8-day program immerses participants in the regional cultural uniquities of our host community in Azrou, Morocco. Azrou is a small city in the heart of the Middle Atlas Mountains known for its pine and cedar forests. Throughout this engaging program, participants will explore ideas around gender, religion, post-colonial identity, indigenous culture, and more. This program provides a unique opportunity for educators to immerse themselves in a new culture and bring new concepts and perspectives back into their classrooms.

For more detailed program information, please click HERE.

Questions? Please email jessica@worldleadershipschool.com

IN PERSON

World Leadership School: Salmon River for School Heads

This yearlong leadership development program for school heads includes a 5-day rafting adventure followed by six virtual peer coaching sessions over the course of the school year.
World Leadership School
June 27, 2025
5 min read
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June 27 - July 2, 2025

For current or entering Heads of School, limit of 24 per program, including facilitators

The Salmon River Program is a year-long leadership development program that launches with a rafting experience. We build a tight community on the river. During the school year, we support each other in a series of peer coaching sessions as we grapple with the challenges and dilemmas of leading a school. These conversations are trusted spaces where leaders can bring their true selves, share inspiration, and engage in critical conversations.

Now in its fourth year, this unique program for school heads on Idaho’s iconic Salmon River creates a deep space for heads to build community, gather energy for the year ahead, and explore game-changing ideas. We explore critical questions in small groups each morning on the river after a delicious breakfast. Then, we board rafts or inflatable kayaks while exploring Class III rapids on the “River of No Return.” Afternoons are for fly fishing and hiking, and evenings are for delicious dinners and campfire discussion. Along the way, we connect, renew, and reflect as we travel down the longest free-flowing river in the continental USA.

We meet six times virtually during the 2025-26 school year to create a “peer coaching” space that deepens our relationships and learning. This challenging year-long learning program is designed for personal and professional renewal and growth, and all leaders enter with stated learning goals.

Click here for more information and registration details.

VIRTUAL

In-Sight Collaborative Mentorship Program (6-week)

This 6-week virtual mentorship program is designed to provide training and experience in the nonprofit sector as it relates to humanitarianism and development.
In-Sight Collaborative
June 30, 2025
5 min read
Coming Soon

This mentorship program from In-Sight Collaborative is designed to provide training and experience in the nonprofit sector as it relates to humanitarianism and development. The program is designed to be accessible to people who may not have access to humanitarian training otherwise. 

Program dates:
June 30 - August 11, 2025

This program will be available in English, Spanish, or Arabic.

Participants will be given the opportunity to: 

  • discover a better sense of self and community as humanitarians
  • imagine and conceptualize interventions rooted in empathetic system design and accompaniment
  • increase their network and knowledge to contribute to the paradigm shift in forced displacement and larger humanitarian sector towards equity 

Since its inception in 2020, the mentorship program has been attended by hundreds of participants from over 35 countries around the world. We believe that anyone with the right mindset and a willingness to engage can be an effective part of the humanitarian response from any background, profession, or sector. It is one of our goals to help inspire future humanitarian leaders and give them the tools and resources they need to participate in a meaningful way.

Throughout the program, participants will be given the opportunity to explore the following areas of the non-profit and humanitarian sector:

  • History of the humanitarian sector, humanitarian principles, and current trends
  • Planning, assessment, implementation, and evaluation of humanitarian interventions
  • Strategic planning within the non-profit industrial complex and other structural challenges
  • Ethical fundraising and advocacy initiatives
  • Community-based research
  • Human-centered leadership
  • Power of narratives and storytelling
  • Wellness and community care for humanitarians

Click here for more information and to apply.

About In-Sight Collaborative

In-Sight Collaborative is a humanitarian NGO founded in 2016 by a group of friends volunteering in refugee camps in Northern Greece. In an acute humanitarian crisis spanning acres and acres of farm fields, train tracks, gas station parking lots, and abandoned hotels, our founding members recognized that the current lens we had grown up with to view the world was dangerously misleading. We saw a need for more collaboration, for more championing of the agency of the people who call these camps home.

In-Sight Collaborative is a facilitator to those in the humanitarian sector who recognize that cultivating an equitable aid system starts with oneself. Moving from its direct aid model, In-Sight Collaborative now works to embody the accompaniment model. We educate humanitarians to be intentional and empowered to cultivate a more equitable system by providing educational tools, programs, and platforms to address harmful policies and practices.

IN PERSON

World Leadership School: EmpowHER

This annual summit for female-​identifying educators is designed to create ​community, champion the female voice, and provide ​a vital space to reenergize personal and ​professional purpose.
World Leadership School
July 8, 2025
5 min read
Coming Soon

July 8 - July 11, 2025
Horse Shoe Farm, Hendersonville, North Carolina (near Asheville)

This annual summit is based on World Leadership School's foundational ​experience in both travel and professional ​learning. It is designed with the needs of female-​identifying educators in mind. It aims to create ​community, champion the female voice, provide ​a vital space to reenergize personal and ​professional purpose… and simply empowHER!

This 2nd annual empowHER summit will be held over 3 nights ​at the beautiful Horse Shoe Farm near Asheville, North Carolina. This ​incredible location provides us with space to explore, connect with ​nature, and learn from local female leaders as we seek to explore the ​threads of purpose, crossroads and gender and their impact on the ​following questions:

  • What empowers you as a female leader?
  • How can you empower other females in your ​school community?
  • What are other female leaders doing to thrive ​in their own community?

Click here for more information and registration details.

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