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Disrupting Unemployment

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    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
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    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
      • Youth Employment Accelerator
      • Youth Unemployment Initiative
      • YouthActionNet

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Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2013 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Modification of scope: After building out digital capacity, the EMI will become an integrated assessment tool for real-time information about user experience in entrepreneurship education. After internal testing, assessment developer partner will pilot the index in external environments.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
Global

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
Approximately 40,000

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Degree of employee engagement and volunteerism
  • Visibility of sponsors and supporters

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2013 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Modification of scope: After building out digital capacity, the EMI will become an integrated assessment tool for real-time information about user experience in entrepreneurship education. After internal testing, assessment developer partner will pilot the index in external environments.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
Global

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
Approximately 40,000

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Degree of employee engagement and volunteerism
  • Visibility of sponsors and supporters

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Entrepreneurship Mindset Index

Submitted by Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Objective

To provide young people from low-income communities with entrepreneurship education that inspires them to stay in school, recognize business opportunities and plan for successful futures.

Overview and Main Activities

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) works with schools in low-income communities globally to provide entrepreneurship education programmes delivered in-classroom, summer “bizcamps,” tech programmes and online learning. The programmes teach a curriculum conveying the importance of career-readiness skills in the context of building a business plan, enabling students to not only learn the ABCs of a business start-up, but also to acquire an entrepreneurial mindset.

By teaching the entrepreneurial mindset, NFTE provides young people with tools and attitudes to overcome adversity and address future personal, economic, community and global challenges.

Entrepreneurship Mindset Index (EMI) survey:

Before and after students participate in a NFTE programme, most students take the EMI survey that measures how much and in what ways the programme has had an impact on the their mindsets. The survey measures students’ non-cognitive abilities (e.g. initiative and self-direction, risk-taking, flexibility and adaptability, creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving) as they relate to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial action. Survey results provide them with:

  1. Personal measure of the skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur
  2. An indicator of their skills necessary for success in future study and work
  3. Information that will help them make effective educational and career choices

Survey results provide NFTE staff and teachers with critical information to inform teaching and learning in the classroom, professional development and programme implementation. All programmes are led by teachers trained in a project-based learning curriculum, and participants are supported by volunteers and mentors providing an engaging and motivating learning experience for students.

Since 1987, NFTE has taught and inspired more than 550,000 young people to pursue educational opportunities, start their own businesses, and succeed in life. NFTE has programmes in 19 United States communities and 12 countries.

Success Factors and Challenges

Most critical success factors:

  • Committed individuals who take ownership to solve community challenges
  • Recognition of the importance of an entrepreneurship mindset
  • Investment in entrepreneurship job creation

Main challenges:

  • To enable expansion to more control groups and non-NFTE participants, a coordinated effort with interested sector partners is required

Recommendations for Others

Building the EMI into programming took time, especially since there were no similar efforts to replicate. Subsequent organizations will be able to use NFTE research and experience to develop similar, real-time mindset testing and iteration programmes.

Replicability and Scalability

How easily could other organizations implement this initiative?
Difficult: Implementation takes diverse programmes, strong central control and high-quality, academic-level research standards.

How easily can this initiative be expanded to include a larger number of participants?
Easy: As NFTE programmes expand in the United States and internationally, it will be easy for refinement and expansion of the EMI to follow.

About the Organization

Website: www.nfte.com
Sector: Non-Profit
Size (number of employees): Up to 1,000
Headquarters: New York, United States

For Further Engagement

Contact name: Shawn Osborne
Contact position: CEO
Email: [email protected]

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