United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) Grant Program supporting innovative peacebuilding projects

United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) Grant Program increases the breadth and depth of the Institute’s work by supporting peacebuilding projects managed by non-profit organizations including educational institutions, research institutions, and civil society organizations.

The Annual Grant Competition supports innovative peacebuilding projects involving research, the identification of promising models and effective practices, the development of practitioner resources and tools, the development and delivery of education, training and dialogue programs, and the production of films, radio programs, and other media.

The Grant Program funds projects focused on preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peacebuilding in settings outside the borders of the U.S.

For more information, visit http://www.yipekenya.org/United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Grant Program.htm

2011 Chase Bank Enablis ILO Business Launchpad competition

The Enablis Entrepreneurial Network East Africa, Chase Bank and the International Labour Organization launched the annual business plan competition aimed at supporting emerging and existing entrepreneurs on July 5th 2011.

The 2011 competition got a boost when the ILO’s Youth Entrepreneurship Facility generously increased their sponsorship to share the title sponsorship with Chase Bank.

The competition is also supported by Inoorero University, Business Daily, Safaricom Foundation, MobiKash, Rhino Special Products and the Kenya ICT Board.

The competition is a platform for Kenyans with business ideas to realize their dreams.

For further information, visit http://www.yipekenya.org/2011 Chase Bank Enablis ILO Business Launchpad.htm

Business Opportunities on Yipe!

Yipe gives you the opportunity to advertise your business opportunities. For information on how to post free ads visit http://www.yipekenya.org/Business opportunities.htm

Ideas before their time

For many entrepreneurs who are visionaries, some of their ideas have been viewed as verging on heresy and madness. Entrepreneurs being who they are question the status quo, sometimes to the detriment of perceptions of even their sanity.

In a Huffington Post article Susan Wilson Solovic writes of her former husband Rich Pisani, an entrepreneur who ran for public office in the early 90s on the sole platform of bringing high-speed rail to Missouri. That idea at the time was seen as verging on radical.

Solovic writes that nearly two decades later, Barack Obama proclaimed the need for high-speed rail; an idea that has not caused the uproar it did for Pisani.  She concludes that “timing is important for every entrepreneur, but sometimes it's simply a matter of waiting for your day to come”.

Read For Entrepreneurs Timing is Everything