AIESEC in Colombia | Electrolux Excellence Awards 2014 Our Story: In the middle of a country with a 60 years-old armed conflict that nowadays has an emergent possibility of reaching a peace agreement, AIESEC took a stand in Colombia by a strong belief to impact our nation, by developing global minded leaders that connect their everyday actions towards achieving peace and fulfillment of human-kind’s potential by enabling more and better leadership and exchanges experiences. We had the ambition to show it is possible to grow like never before in all of our programs, to evolve our organizational development model and also to aim on strengthening our legal and financial perspectives; this was a year of bold stands, we invested a lot, mainly on challenging our Nation’s memory and what the world remembers, it has been more than 20 years since our drug lords were famous enough to occasionally name us after them when we go abroad, our Country is still feared, it is still suffering from corruption in our public sector but four us, that is enough reason to continue to do what we do, that is our main motivation, to show the world we are a Country of kind people, coffee, flowers, entrepreneur-friendly policies, an emerging economy, passionate athletes and empowered AIESECers. This was not an easy task, neither did want it to be; we knew it was our generation the one called for a big stand. During this year, we brought clarity on how to connect our Country’s necessities, our organization with the world, and how each action of each of our members was contributing to develop themselves and therefore, contributing to develop better citizens for our Country. Colombia had always being pointed for our bloody past, today we are proud to say: The Answer is Colombia! Our more than 2.500 young nationals looking for a better version of their country, woke up every morning for the past 365 Days to directly change 2651 lives and indirectly countless Colombian families and communities. We took a stand in our most critical issues, we started with the education system in our country’s public schools, we partnered with the government to have the possibility to reach 100 schools in our Capital State with a total student population of 20.000! We partnered to execute a 30-TN project in our first semester, then to scale it to a 100-TN Project for our second semester and we closed a 200-TN Project for generation 14.15 to start with. For the first time we achieved a 1 Million USD contract with the government, but this was only the beginning, now we have reached other three states and we are providing these kids the key to the world, the English language. We united our network, not only our LCs but also our country partners with this vision; we are thankful to all of them for not only believing in our ambition but because of their persistence while achieving this dream; that is how we made it, by working together with humility, by aligning our promise inside and outside of AIESEC. This year, we went from being a global TOP7 to being a global TOP4, with a relative growth of 92% in IGIP, ending as TOP2 globally in OGIP and with a relative growth of 40% in both IGCDP and OGCDP. For the first time, our Business Development incomes had a relative growth of 256% by achieving its goal twice and by consolidating more than 30 national partners. We saved more than 100millions because of newly implemented Public Relations Strategy and its 12 new national partners. Finally, in this term we got the sustainability certification and the legal recognition by AIESEC’s Global Finance & Legal Board.
IGCDP
OGCDP
IGIP
OGIP
TOTAL
ABS GROWTH
REL GROWTH
13.14
925
1095
277
354
2651
783
42%
12.13
659
785
145
279
1868
499
36%
91% Growth
MC 12.13
% Growth
Growth in $
$390.201.546
345%
$277.121.161
$122.807.204
$198.926.886
162%
$76.119.682
$51.372.512
$91.428.591
178%
$40.056.079
$16.202.674
$127.458.395
787%
$111.255.721
$303.462.775
$808.015.418
266%
$504.552.643
Operative Fund
$113.080.385
Reserves Fund National Fund Expansion Fund TOTAL
MC 13.14
NPS 45