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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) program – Call for Applications

The Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society has opened the application process for the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) program which gives an opportunity to socially-minded entrepreneurs to build sustainable, scalable organizations that solve problems for people living in poverty around the world.

The Program works with organizations that create value by lifting people out of poverty, utilizing self-sustaining community practices, and developing low-cost solutions. The GSBI is a combination of online, experiential, and skill-building offerings in a ten-month program. It also collaborates with a diverse group of partners including successful Silicon Valley executives, academic leaders, and the network of Jesuit universities.

Read more http://www.yipekenya.org/GSBI.htm

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Why Your Company Should Be Taking Social Media Steroids!

By Jessica Schow

Millions of people sign in to social media websites every single day. And, as many people use Facebook, Twitter as well as other platforms, we find new purposes for using them. Currently, these media channels are not only utilized to share pictures, but to also tell a particular moment in your life. Social websites can also bring success to your new venture. Social networking has been utilized by people to be connected and this “connection” continues to be exploited by organizations to be successful.

Big and secure corporations are beginning to take note of the benefits that social media brings but it is more interesting to notice that this medium (social media) can give you even more for a startup company. The very nature to be smaller gives startup corporations the ability to focus clear without having to break down an objective into simpler plus more direct objectives. A larger business might have more channels but as time passes by, these channels suffer from insufficient updates and eventually become empty.

To completely increase the benefits brought by social media for your expanding company, it would be helpful to consider a few things.

Read more http://www.yipekenya.org/Schow.htm

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Genesis Consult Entrepreneurship Training for Kenya & Tanzania

Do you want to develop your Business Idea?

Or, are you interested in developing your Business Plan for your Idea?

As a Partner Organization to International Labor Organization (ILO), Genesis Consult embarks on training potential and existing entrepreneurs for Generate Your Business Idea (GYBI) and Start Your Business (SYB) Programme, which will assist to harness your entrepreneurial spirit by implementing your Business Model.

Generate Your Business Idea (GYBI) targets potential and existing entrepreneurs’ who have various business ideas that they want to develop and implement. The programme uses a ILO methodology to scan idea competitiveness and potential.

Genesis Consult Entrepreneurship Training for Kenya & Tanzania

Monday, December 5, 2011

2012 Thiel Fellowships for Youth Innovators – Call for Applications

The future will not take care of itself. Global prosperity is not inevitable. The world will only get better if visionary people are creative and relentless about solving hard problems.

The 2011 class of Thiel Fellows includes 24 people who are tackling breakthroughs in hardware and robotics, making energy plentiful, making markets more effective, challenging the notion that there is only one way to get an education, and extending the human lifespan. Several of them have already launched companies, secured financing, and won prestigious awards. As they're demonstrating, you don't need college to invent the future.

If you're under twenty and love science or technology, consider joining the 2012 class of fellows.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Dubai International Award for Best Practices – Call for Nominations

Nominations are currently being invited for 2012 Dubai International Award for Best Practices.

The Dubai International Award for Best Practices (DIABP) was started during the United Nations International Conference that was held in Dubai in 1995. Late Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum played an important role in establishing this award, which reflects the commitment of the Dubai Government and the United Arab Emirates towards sustainable development of human settlements through mutual international cooperation.

This award aims to recognize the best practices with positive impact on improving the living environment. The governments of Dubai and UAE administer the award jointly with UN-HABITAT.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Strengthening Youth Entrepreneurship Support in Tanzania and Uganda - Request For Proposals

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is for a feasibility study to design appropriate youth entrepreneurship support interventions for the PPA Consortium in Tanzania and Uganda.

The study will involve:

• Analysis of Consortium partner approaches and future plans for target countries
• Analysis of youth entrepreneurship sector and key players in target countries
• Design of joint or mutually reinforcing interventions for the Consortium

The feasibility study will enable Consortium partners to determine suitable allocation of resources towards youth entrepreneurship interventions in Tanzania and/or Uganda in year two of the PPA. The project will be delivered by an external organisation or individual over 8 weeks starting January and concluding end March 2012.

The deadline for applications is: 9am Monday 5th December 2011.