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Educate, Empower, Support: EO Women Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Way

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WEDO Canada’s mission is to educate, empower and support future women entrepreneurs by granting $1 million in scholarships to deserving female post-secondary students across Canada,” Milena said. We’ve helped our portfolio companies with introductions with potential customers, board members, key employees, and advisors.”

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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To effectively support any entrepreneur, you must develop an infrastructure of resources in your community. Here are five tips to consider when engaging and supporting new business owners in your community—read on to learn more. Include resources that specialize in supporting new entrepreneurs.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. It''s an especially relevant question for me as I''ve recently joined the board of the Bronx Academy for Software Engineering , one of two software focused high schools in NYC. Don''t get me wrong--I think software literacy is extremely important.

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EO Hosts International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations in Support of UN Sustainable Development Goals

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On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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Mali Rising Foundation Works to Empower Youth Through Education

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The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. We asked Fred to share his experience in helping to increase literacy rates and access to education in Mali.

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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems

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They’re building campuses, districts, buildings, spaces, as well as running new educational efforts and contests—basically anything they can think of to foster the growth of new and innovative companies. but the connections are not being made to support the funds that are supposed to be funding all these local startups.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. Adam played a hands-on role in helping many of our last class through funding and even took some board seats and advisory roles. Can the community support them? So What is Different for Class Three?

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