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A Year Like No Other: Our 2020 Annual Report
We’re delighted to release our 2020 annual report, detailing our activities over a year like no other.
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Women Entrepreneurs Mean Business: the global Summit
For the Women Entrepreneurs Mean Business Summit in November 2021, we explored and challenged the gender stereotypes holding women entrepreneurs back from success and equality.
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Building on success: launching our fourth Road to Growth programme in Nigeria!
Today we launch our fourth Road to Growth programme in Nigeria, bringing crucial entrepreneurial skills to hundreds more of Nigeria’s most promising women entrepreneurs.
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Road to Growth comes to Guyana!
We’re delighted to announce that Road to Growth is coming to Guyana! Ambitious Guyanese women entrepreneurs can now apply to join our flagship business management and investment readiness training programme for the first time in the Foundation’s history.
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HerVenture Shortlisted for Digital Innovation of the Year Award!
Our mobile learning app for women entrepreneurs, HerVenture, has been shortlisted for the Third Sector Awards! Foundation Partnerships Development Manager, Nora Bendžius-Drennan, reflects on its innovation and success through COVID-19.
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Webinar: Women’s Empowerment through Agricultural Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa
No Labels! Tackled gender stereotypes that hold back women tech entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries.
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New motivation, new skills and new connections
Congratulations to the May 2021 graduates of our Mentoring Women in Business Programme! Our Mentoring Programme Officer James Mitchell reflects on Graduation Day for the latest graduates of the programme.
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HerVenture Launches in South Africa!
Today we launch our business skills app HerVenture in South Africa for the first time, bringing crucial entrepreneurial skills to at least 1,600 of South Africa’s most promising women entrepreneurs.
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G7 Summit: time to put women front and centre of the global economic recovery
Our CEO Helen McEachern and Fatou Haidara, Managing Director of UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) share their thoughts on putting women front and centre of the global economic recovery.
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Turning the tables: using advocacy training to shape entrepreneurial systems
Our Senior Advocacy Advisor, Sini Maria Heikkila, reflects on our inaugural leadership, influencing and advocacy training in Nigeria
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Road to Growth Comes to Kenya!
Today we launch our flagship training programme Road to Growth in Kenya for the first time, bringing crucial entrepreneurial skills and support to over 3,500 of Kenya’s most promising women entrepreneurs.
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Women’s History Month: Celebrating 14 Years of Supporting Women Entrepreneurs
Although they face many barriers, with the right support women entrepreneurs can be an unstoppable force, changing the world around them for the better.
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