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Disrupting Unemployment

  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
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      • Centum Learning
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      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
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      • 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
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      • 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
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  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • 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:
2014 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
The programme will be piloted in five markets in the United States and then expanded internationally based on best practices and lessons learned.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
United States

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
480 participating girls

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Number of girls participating
  • Number of participants who create a business plan
  • Number of GGEP programmes offered
  • Number of female volunteers engaged
  • Number of new partnerships established in support of GGEP

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2014 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
The programme will be piloted in five markets in the United States and then expanded internationally based on best practices and lessons learned.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
United States

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
480 participating girls

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Number of girls participating
  • Number of participants who create a business plan
  • Number of GGEP programmes offered
  • Number of female volunteers engaged
  • Number of new partnerships established in support of GGEP

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

Submitted by MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth

Objective

To help high-school girls in low-income communities develop an entrepreneurial mindset through female mentors, business and leadership skills that spur innovation and exposure to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers.

Overview and Main Activities

In partnership between the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, the Coca-Cola Foundation and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project (GGEP) targets girls in high school. The initiative is being implemented in five U.S. markets during 2014-2015 and will expand internationally in the following years, reaching girls worldwide.

Key programme components include:

  • Mentoring Sessions: Sessions with women business owners and female volunteers include STEM-focused coaching, career panels and technology workshops. A strong network of female business leaders is being cultivated to serve as role models and coaches for participating girls. Emphasizes participation of female employees, leveraging various employee groups, including MasterCard’s Young Professional networks and Women in Technology (volunteer roles within the project are open to all regardless of gender).
  • Girls Innovate: Provides opportunities for entrepreneurial thinking, imagining and creating as part of NFTE’s World Series of Innovation. Participants brainstorm and create submissions in response to one of seven online innovation challenges. Working with volunteers, students turn their innovative ideas into formal proposals, using their submissions to compete for prizes.
  • Girls Tech-Entrepreneurship Summer Camps: A two-week intensive learning opportunity where participants learn about personal discovery, leadership, and teamwork through interaction with leading technology businesswomen volunteers. Curriculum emphasizes women-owned business, technology and career planning, and girls have field trips to local tech companies and learn from STEM panel discussions. Each girl develops a business plan and the camps culminate with business plan competitions.

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is the global leader in youth entrepreneurship education with active programmes in 12 countries that have served over 560,000 youth worldwide since 1987. 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.

Success Factors and Challenges

Most critical success factors:

  • Project-based programming based on NFTE’s 27-year expertise in experiential entrepreneurship education
  • Partnerships with key companies that value programme impact and provide funds and volunteers
  • Relationships with schools and other NGOs for support on expansion and recruitment

Main challenges:

  • Designing a flexible, high-quality programme that meets market needs and maintains core standards
  • Recruiting students for rigorous out-of-school time programming
  • Engaging volunteers to participate in low-income neighbourhoods on weekends and schooldays

Recommendations for Others

Explore ways to build on successful programmes to target a specific audience and leverage the leaders in networks to provide much needed intellectual and human capital. In addition, it may also be helpful to secure a local GGEP champion, both within the teacher/youth educator community to support student recruitment and within the local women business leader community to support female volunteer recruitment. The programme achieved some success with this when done informally and will be attempting a more formal arrangement in one market to determine whether it can be expanded further.

Replicability and Scalability

How easily could other organizations implement this initiative?
Difficult: Other organizations may not have the same level of expertise, a strong network of partners, and buy-in of key stakeholders.

How easily can this initiative be expanded to include a larger number of participants?
Easy: Scalability can easily be achieved by increasing the number of activities in a specific region and/or the geographic footprint.

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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