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Social Entrepreneurship Training

Global Grassroots believes that wisdom exists at the grassroots level among those directly impacted by certain social issues.  Ideas that spring from the raw experience of injustice are infused with an underlying understanding of local cultural dynamics. Further, those implementing the ideas are directly impacted by their success or failure.  Investment in social entrepreneurs encourages a community to solve problems creatively and resourcefully, reducing dependency on international aid. 

Global Grassroots offers a series of unique workshops on social venture development to grassroots village and refugee communities to help inspire a culture of social entrepreneurship and creative, collaborative problem-solving.  Priority is given to poor, oppressed and underprivileged communities in Africa and Asia as well as displaced persons residing in refugee camps. Our work uses a high-engagement participatory model and emphasizes sustainability, replicability and capacity building.  The curriculum is designed to serve a range of backgrounds from participants who are illiterate or have limited formal education to more experienced entrepreneurs with some business skills. Global Grassroots’ three-week training module involves four primary components:

1  Individual Empowerment, Collective Purpose and Visioning Change;
2  Systematic Problem Diagnosis and Creative Idea Development;
3  Core Business Skills Training; and
4  Social Venture Development.

Global Grassroots accesses new communities through strategic partnerships with other civil society organizations.  If you are interested in learning how we may be able to offer our training in your community, please contact us for more information about our Social Entrepreneurship Training Curriculum.

Project teams who have attended our training and are launching ideas which meet our criteria for investment are eligible to apply for financial and other support services. Please see Social Venture Investment for more information on our selection criteria and investment process.