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Supporting democracy and entrepreneurship among Peru’s rural youth | Humanitarian News

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Daniel Cordova is currently the dean of the Graduate School at Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru), and President of Instituto Invertir.

The EmpredeAhora program was specifically designed by Instituto Invertir and CIPE as a response to a lack of confidence in democracy and the free market economy. The program provides an alternative to the negative image of the private sector and entrepreneurship among youth, especially those from low-income families located in the countryside. Instituto Invertir selects 100-200 students from a pool of applicants to attend three sessions of three days each at the Universidad del [...]

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Millennials Yawn While Nation Slips | Axis of Right

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Small Business and Entrepreneurship MBA | LPGEN 2 by Jonathan Van Clute

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Small Business and Entrepreneurship MBA

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If you have ever considered running your own business or possibly purchasing a fantastic franchise opportunity, how do you guarantee success, and prevent your

business from falling among the 50% of new businesses that fail in the first five years? The best way to court success is to arm yourself with the best

business tools available, and the most critical tool to have in your toolbox by far is the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Entrepreneurship.  

So what is the Entrepreneurship MBA? The MBA is a graduate level degree that can take anywhere from one to three years to complete, depending on the program

you choose. In order to qualify for the MBA, you must have an undergraduate degree (preferably in business or accounting), and you must have a excellent score on

the GMAT test. Today there are a wide variety of ways to earn your MBA degree, whether it is through an <a

rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.mbaschools.com/small-business-franchise-entrepreneurship-mba.aspx”>executive MBA program</a> that takes a year, to a standard two-year

program, to the many options available on the evenings and weekends and online. In order to specialize in Entrepreneurship, you will switch from general

business topics to more focused subjects such as entrepreneurial finance, leadership, global capitalism, and other subjects that are specific to those that

want to own their own businesses.

When considering starting your own small business, you need to be able to identify business concepts that will work, evaluate opportunities, make a

business plot, and reckon analytically. You will also need to know the basic precepts of management, financing, investing, organization, plotting,

cultivating successful relationships, and more. By far the fastest route to grasping all of these concepts is the Entrepreneurship MBA degree.

If you are thinking about building a successful business utilizing an already established structure, perhaps a excellent possibility for you is one of the many

brilliant franchise opportunities that are available today. From retail, to food, to service providers, to health care ventures, there are a vast myriad of

franchise opportunities out there today. With the Entrepreneurship MBA under your belt, you will have a far greater chance of both attracting initial

investment capital as well as guiding this franchise to incredible heights of success.

As you can see, whether you are considering launching your own small business or opening a new branch of a franchise, the very first thing you should do is

earn an MBA in Entrepreneurship. This way you can find your road the highway to success!

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Chat show puzzle pieces in play – Entertainment News, Business News, Media – Variety

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Inner Child Inspirational quote of the day. | Soul Hangout

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Have a Soulful and Playful day, you and your Inner Child!

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Inner Child Inspirational quote of the day.

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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

~Francis of Assisi~

Not either if you are a helpless child. You owe it to yourself to reclaim your integrity. Giving birth to your Inner Child is the way to reconnect with the wholeness of who you really are.

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Seth Godin, one of my heroes! On Tribes from SHO Tribe – Soul Hang Out

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From Soul Hangout Tribe! I love Seth Godin It is all about changing the language and the thinking.

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Heather Smith: Is Colorado the New Iowa? Young People Closing Midterm “Enthusiasm Gap”

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According to the news this week, the midterm elections will be characterized as any one of the following: The Economist predicts a disappointed indictment of President Obama by the left; the Washington Post warns that it will be a non sequitur speed bump that will have little bearing on 2012, and the New York Times says the race will be defined by the participation of older voters.

Absent from the discussion, however, is any serious insight regarding the continued implementation of exciting tactics from the 2008 race, in which for the most visible time in history candidates intentionally mobilized new (mostly young) voters using grassroots outreach and new technology. This will continue to play a factor this cycle.

For the past three election cycles, young voters have proven themselves to be a real force in the electorate, and this summer’s ballot box horoscopes are clearly old news. The real story these days is not how young voter turnout will compare to older voter turnout, but instead how even the slightest increase in the youth vote, created by investment in the proven tactics of voter registration and a combination of grassroots and digital outreach, can alter the election landscape.

Look no further than the burst of activity we saw in Colorado on Tuesday, logging record turnout in the state’s primary.

Rock the Vote’s on-the-ground State Coordinator, Kyle Hamm, who is registering young voters in conjunction with New Era Colorado in Denver, reports to our DC headquarters that many young people took advantage of the state’s mail-in ballot system and were highly energized by candidates who reached out to them. For example, young voters told Kyle that they loved the old green school bus Senate candidate Michael Bennet campaigned in while promoting his platform on education issues to young voters, a unique tactic that scored him street cred (and votes!) with his peers.

The Times and The Economist did note our efforts on the ground, Rock the Vote’s largest investment in a midterm election in our organization’s 20-year history, in their assessments of the Nov. 2 contests as a factor that could significantly mobilize young people this cycle. There’s more to the story, though.

As we announced last week, there is a colossal existing and new youth market emerging that savvy candidates who recognize the power of the Millennial generation will tap into. The key is extending them an invitation to participate.

This outreach is important because the Millennial generation is a tidal wave that is now a permanent force in politics, the biggest generation in American history. Millennials will make up 24 percent of the voting age population by 2012 and 36 percent by 2020**. With numbers like those, small percentage increases in turnout mean many more young people are participating in our democracy.

When those running for office target only older voters, which the NYT and other outlets like the Seattle Times fail to note is a perpetuating strategic choice, they ignore a demographic that will help to shape this country’s future in sheer numbers alone. It is not only reckless but irresponsible to ignore the vast voting bloc.

It is no coincidence that youth engagement reached record highs in 2008. The candidates recognized their power to swing an election and campaigned directly to them. Now in 2010, about one-third of registered young voters have moved since the historic 2008 election, and nearly 13,000 young people turn 18 every day, introducing 9 million new potential young voters this cycle. Engaging them in 2010 will take registration and re-registration efforts, as well as dedication by the campaigns to reach out to these voters. We know it works. These tactics were proven effective in 2004, 2006, and 2008 in increasing young voter turnout. And those increases mattered for candidates as well as the overall participation of this generation. Will we now ignore what has worked in the past?

When we step out of flawed conventional wisdom, we see that movement has happened in this space. In addition to the more than 120,000 young people we’ve already registered at Rock the Vote this year, the DNC has announced that young voters are their primary target demographic this season and are running campaigns using many of the best practices from the youth-vote community (online voter registration, pledge-to-vote commitments, and more), and just this week candidates like Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Corbett was making promises to young people that if elected he would work to provide them job opportunities so they don’t have to leave the state to find work. Likewise, young people want to vote, especially those who were not eligible during the ’08 fervor. Consider this post from Baruch college student Xue Yun Gao, who writes after his 18th birthday, “I have always wanted to vote and I regret not being able to vote in the 2008 election. I registered others to vote as my way of [involving] myself in the election.”

Just as many people who relied on conventional wisdom to predict inaccurate outcomes during the Iowa Caucuses and throughout the ’08 cycle were following the wrong storylines, it’s up to us to keep our eyes open and focused on the beginnings of another story that is not-so-subtly starting to spark in the circles of young Americans who are committed to leading their peers to the polls in 10 weeks. These young people, in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York and all around the country, may have changed addresses, but they’ve not had a change of heart on civic engagement. It is time we stop comparing young voter turnout to older voter turnout and recognize that even a small increase in young voter participation compared to 2006 could make a large difference in many close races, and in the future of our democracy.

**From the New Democratic Network’s 21st Century America Project (PDF)

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From the Medieval to the Millennials | Professor Mondo

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The folks at the Pope Center have provided the platform for Azusa Pacific medievalist Sarah Adams to make a case for the continuing relevance of the liberal arts curriculum. As teachers, we’re professional rhetors, and every good rhetor knows the value of understanding the audience — knowing audiences have their own values and purposes.

Here at Mondoville, my audience is made up primarily of traditional students. Generationally speaking, they’ve been dubbed the Millennials, a grouping of folks born from 1982 to 2000, a group that therefore also includes the Spawn of Mondo. Now every generation loves to decry the perceived flaws of its successors, and the Millennials are already coming in for their slating. Adams observes:

These are the “narcissists” according to San Diego State professor Jean Twenge and the “dumbest generation” according to Emory professor Mark Bauerlein. They are the children who played soccer without scores because scoring would make the losers feel bad and who received trophies simply for participating.

[...]As a Generation X-er myself, I was initially baffled when my students would protest a poor grade on the grounds that “I really, really tried.” More than one of my colleagues confirms that Millennials read “correction” as “personal rejection.”  They are hurt and confused by poor grades rather than challenged.

At the same time, these kids seem to “make life choices based on what will ‘help them to lead more purposeful and meaningful lives.’” It is here that our current system fails them, according to Adams:

[The job-skill based educational] model fails millennial students on two levels. First, they find it impersonal, bereft of the internal meaning and personal satisfaction that drives them. Second, it doesn’t actually prepare students for the real world. Employers have complained for over a decade that college graduates lack basic logic and communication skills. They also lack the ability to see connections between different areas of knowledge, perceptions that are necessary for innovative thinking.

Ironic as it may seem, the truly ancient view of the liberal arts may speak best and most deeply to the Millennials.

Now I’m not entirely sure how many of my students realize all this when they get to Mondoville. I’ve spoken before of the fact that many of my students are first-generation and view higher ed as a means to a stable career — a perfectly honorable goal. But while part of my job is to show them how and why the stuff I talk about matters in ways beyond the immediately utilitarian, Adams (like a good medievalist) uses the liberal arts as a scheme of meeting the Millennial desire for the Meaningful:

The first three disciplines, the Trivium, all deal with linguistic mastery because language allows vague impressions to be processed, articulated and communicated as complex ideas. Thus meaning cannot be accessed or shared without language. Grammar covers language’s mechanics, how to translate ideas into coherent words. Rhetoric deals with style, or the ability to make words eloquent and moving. And Dialectic is logic, the ability to parse competing claims and ideas so that eloquent rhetoric cannot hide poor ideas. The Trivium makes communication foundational to the process of finding meaning.

The Quadrivium is also grounded in the search for meaning. Though it divides the physical world into distinct subjects, each subject asks “Why is this information significant? What does it say about my role in the universe?”

These are the elements of an understanding that matters and an understanding of why it matters. It’s worth considering, and kudos to Prof. Adams for her eloquent rationale.

H/T: Phi Beta Cons

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Encouraging Entrepreneurship: Submit your Project Proposal and win US$ 15,000 EMRC-Rabobank Project Incubator Award 2010 « Database of Press Releases related to Africa

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Encouraging Entrepreneurship: Submit your Project Proposal and win US$ 15,000 EMRC-Rabobank Project Incubator Award 2010

 

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, August 13, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — What do a young fruit juice produce company in Uganda and a cashew nut cooperative in Côte d’Ivoire have in common? They are both past winners of the Project Incubator Award, an initiative of the Brussels-based non-governmental organisation EMRC with the goal of encouraging development, innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The call to entry for this year’s EMRC-Rabobank Project Incubator Award 2010 has gone out, the judges are calling for project proposals in the agro-food and rural development sectors that positively impact the local community.

Entrepreneur Derek Kwesiga entered his proposal to the 2009 Project Incubator Award contest at the Africa Finance and Investment Forum in December 2009 in Amsterdam. He hoped to be chosen for the shortlist to enable him present his vision of creating a world class food processing business in Uganda. “Starting a business project anywhere is very difficult, especially Africa. I saw the Project Incubator platform as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to present my small business ideas and goals to an eclectic audience of industry leaders -we received what we hoped for and more.” Derek Kwesiga, Derekorp. The US$ 15,000 Award was sponsored by the African Development Bank.

 

Designed to give a much-needed prop up to African entrepreneurs that typically struggle to find funding for their project proposals, Mathias Kouakou & Fabien Yao, directors of COOGES (Coopérative Générale de Sepingo), a cashew nut cooperative in Cote d’Ivoire, were delighted to be chosen as the winners of the US$15,000 EMRC-Rabobank Project Incubator Award. “We entered the competition mainly for the exposure it would bring us, because even if we hadn’t won, at least we would have got our name out there and been able to share our business model with potential partners and investors. When we won the award, the joy was immense and indescribable. We realised that we were not crazy for believing in this project, validated by industry experts,” explains Mathias Adou Kouakou from COOGES.

 

The contest is open to all participants of the AgriBusiness Forum 2010 to be held from the 3 – 6 October in Kampala, Uganda. Jointly organised by EMRC and the Government of Uganda, the forum is supported by a glowing number of partners including Rabobank, FAO, USAID, Novus International, Stanbic Bank, Syngenta Foundation, the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), KPMG, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), IFDC, ProInvest, the East African Community (EAC), the European Union and the World Food Program (WFP).

 

A shortlist of business proposals is drawn up from the submissions and presented to a room full of attentive delegates who get to hear about the innovative business ideas first hand. This year’s EMRC-Rabobank Project Incubator Award 2010 will be no exception with the judges calling for projects in the agro-food and rural development sectors that positively impact the local community. The Award will be presented at the gala evening of the AgriBusiness Forum on Monday 4th of October 2010 in Kampala.

 

EMRC looks forward to sharing the innovative project proposals with the few hundred delegates with the goal of galvanising small business growth across Africa. The cut-off date for entry is the 10th of September 2010 and entrants are urged to submit their ideas. “The award money we received was partly used to buy raw nuts in order to continue the operation of the plant for which we had no working capital. Another part was used to purchase machinery to increase the activity and complete the processing. Creating a sustainable business in Africa requires a sense of daring and a strong belief in what you do.” Mathias Adou Kouakou, COOGES.

 

For more information please visit www.emrc.be or email info@emrc.be

 

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Contest: EMRC-Rabobank Project Incubator Award

Award Event: AgriBusiness 2010, 3 – 6 October, Kampala, Uganda

Organiser: EMRC International http://www.emrc.be

 

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