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Meet the man empowering young leaders by starting with their computer repairs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. Providing five-minute tips and tricks about what to do and not to do with your computer during these sessions allowed me an easy way to start educating my community as well.

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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Inspired by her inclusive mission, the YLAI Network team asked her a few questions about how she advocates for and empowers members of her community and how she recommends you become an agent of change. These include single mothers, deaf-mute women, former prisoners, and women living in vulnerable communities in our country.

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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

What is the role that ThrivingDollars plays within your community? At the beginning of 2015, I started a “figure-it-out fund” and used a percentage of Accessories & Essentials’ sales over the next few months to finance it. Create community. Entrepreneurship can be isolating and lonely, especially when you work mostly solo.

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Empowering millennials in Peru to take action volunteering

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement , didn’t look to be labeled as an entrepreneur and a leader in her community when she began her small social media movement promoting youth volunteerism in 2013. By Jewelle Saunders. She was just focused on doing the work. government.

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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. This revealed a much larger problem in Cinthya’s community and country: “clothing is the second-most environmentally-harmful industry, right after oil,” says Cinthya. Identify the needs facing your community, what do they need help with the most?

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Why there are so few women in tech (and what you can do about it!)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Although women make up 47% of the US workforce, in 2015, they held only 25% of computing jobs — in a time when tech is booming and has been for decades. You could even pursue a leadership role. A lack of strong female representation creates a vicious circle that maintains the status quo. Career progression. Something for everyone.

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