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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

I gained a solid business background to support my creative side. Masshii’s objective is to create opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador who have little or no opportunity for proper education, training, or jobs. Our partners usually help with opportunities in education and mental health. government.

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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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. The level of engagement, passion and commitment demonstrated by attendees was beyond expectations. SDG 5 – Gender Equality. •

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

This is particularly acute in New York City, where you have several industries undergoing serious disruption, a critical mass of creativity from the cross pollination of ideas, and lots of capital. I like starting with the big goal, because it then naturally leads to the most critical questions: Are we talking about educating new developers?

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In Which We Pay Attention to Something Else

This is going to be BIG.

In the past year, I've seen a lot of rumblings around new areas of opportunity for innovation--marketplaces the move the atomic economic element from the corporation to the individual (Kickstarter, AirBnB, Taskrabbit), hardware creation (Makerbot, Pebble), education (Skillshare, General Assembly) and food supply (Brightfarms, Windowfarms).

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. "Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

Source Link

How can your programming be sustainable and live beyond this grant cycle? This approach has resulted in sustainable success for IASourceLink. Building collaborations can spark, spur, and sustain economic growth. With persistence and creativity, you can look for other funding opportunities to execute your well-developed plan.

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Inspiring energy efficiency in Bolivia and avoiding corruption

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology. Educating against waste management. From there, they founded EnerGea.

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