Social Business and Microeconomic Opportunities for Youth
March 12-14, 2008 Denver, Colorado
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Regis University educates men and women of
all ages to take leadership roles and to make a positive
impact in a changing society. Standing within the Catholic
and United States traditions, we are inspired by the
particular Jesuit vision of Ignatius Loyola. This vision
challenges us to attain the inner freedom to make
intelligent choices. We seek to provide value-centered
undergraduate and graduate education, as well as to
strengthen commitment to community service. We nurture the
life of the mind and the pursuit of truth within an
environment conducive to effective teaching, learning and
personal development.
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The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) is an organization that links 55,000 business, professional and entrepreneurial women and their associations in order to provide a global voice for women’s advancement. We are committed to using our diverse voices, economic resources, professional and technical capabilities, and social and political influence to empower women in developing countries. TIAW was the first to adopt a comprehensive strategy supporting microenterprise development around the world. TIAW’s Microenterprise Development Program empowers women in very poor areas by providing them with access to working capital that enables them to create and sustain income-generating microenterprises. By becoming self-sufficient, these women can help lift their families out of poverty. As their businesses grow, others in the community can also be employed, helping even more families to escape the hopelessness of poverty and build strong village economies. |
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Making Cents International is committed to creating a legacy of improved skills and economic opportunities at the individual, community, and global levels. It is a specialized consulting and training firm based in Washington, D.C. that equips youth and adults with the vision, confidence, and skills to create and grow their own businesses. Making Cents is also a leader in building the youth microenterprise sector. Through the organization of learning opportunities and networks, Making Cents inspires youth, practitioners, policy makers, and funders to more effectively share and develop partnerships, programs, and policies that support youth entrepreneurs. Since our founding in 1999, Making Cents has provided technical assistance to over 4,000 business service providers in 43 countries to reinforce their capacity to offer quality and targeted services to youth and adults. |
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Colorado Enterprise Fund is a non-profit community development financial institution founded in 1976. We help people start or expand their small businesses. We make loans to businesses that can’t get financing from traditional sources. More importantly, we also provide management assistance to help entrepreneurs improve their business skills and knowledge. Our loan programs bridge the gap for businesses that might qualify for a bank loan someday, but need more time before they’re ready. For over 30 years, we have been making loans that make a difference. Our goal is to help small business owners – including women, minorities and low-income people – achieve their dream to won their own business and be their own boss. |
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Friendship Bridge is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides microcredit and educational programs so women and their families can create their own solutions to poverty. The Friendship Bridge blends the short-term economic development needs of women through access to credit and education, and the long-term goal of breaking the generational cycle of poverty by providing educational opportunities for their children. Friendship Bridge has affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of rural people by investing in women entrepreneurs, first in Vietnam and now in rural Guatemala. – women who become leaders and agents of change for themselves, their families and communities. |
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Micro Business Development is a Colorado non-profit organization whose mission is to shatter the grip of poverty and benefit all of Colorado by using microfinancing and business skill development to transform Colorado’s underserved populations – which includes minorities, women, youth, the disabled and disadvantaged – into drivers of economic growth.
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The mission of RESULTS is to create the political will to end hunger and severe poverty and to empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power. To this end RESULTS was formed in 1980 as a grassroots citizens advocacy organization comprised of citizens in more than 100 communities across the United States who lobby members of Congress for effective solutions to hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad. Strongly supported by RESULTS volunteers, Sam Daley-Harris, founder of RESULTS, worked for over 20 years with Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank and John Hatch of FINCA to create the microfinance movement that has now succeeded at reaching 100 million of the world’s poorest families with microloans to start businesses and to work their way out of poverty. |
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Capital Sisters International raises loan capital for microfinance institutions that serve impoverished women in developing countries who want to start or grow a business.
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| Triple Bottom Line Partners |
Triple Bottom Line Partnerships is a nonprofit entity that provides consulting, support and training in the development, management, monitoring and evaluation of partnership-driven programs whereby the collective interests and resources between and among private, nonprofit and public sector organizations are leveraged to achieving significant economic, social and environmental benefits in a sustainable manner. |
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