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Donate to the Youth Participation Fund:
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Access Making Cents' Annual "State of the Field" Publications. A practical resource for promising practices, innovative ideas, and lessons learned shared at previous learning events:
Learn from a report Youth Business International (YBI) launched at the 2011 conference: "Youth Entrepreneurship- Closing the Gap" (downloadable at: http://www.youthbusiness.org/media/publications.aspx). "Closing the Gap" builds directly on the previous paper in YBI's series, 'Beyond Collateral' (2010), and complies nine case studies that each illustrate how the finance 'gap' can be closed for underserved entrepreneurs through providing non-financial support, such as training and mentoring. This integrated approach reduces the risk of lending, with banks or other financial institutions recognizing the value of the non-financial support, which substitutes for collateral and other types of guarantee. The report features three other leading organizations in our sector, International Youth Foundation (IYF), TechnoServe and Silatech.
Watch 2011 Conference Highlights. In partnership with Making Cents, Microlinks reported live from the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference. Check out the Enterprising Ideas blog to find plenary and session recaps, video interviews with selected presenters, photo slideshows, and more! Read blogs from Jonathan Ortmans, President of Entrepreneurship Week and Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, wrote on youth entrepreneurship and knowledge exchanged at the conference http://microlinks.kdid.org/learning-marketplace/blogs/microlinks-coverage-making-cents-global-youth-economic-opportunities-conf
Read blogs from Jonathan Ortmans, President of Entrepreneurship Week and Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, wrote on youth entrepreneurship and knowledge exchanged at the conference: http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/2011/September/Helping-the-Worlds-Future-Entrepreneurs.aspx and http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/2011/September/Looking-Past-the-Talk-on-International-Aid.aspx.
Additional recently released resources on youth economic opportunities: Extracted from the 2012 "State of the Field" Publication |
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