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Promoting women’s advancement in Haiti through creative baked goods

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2017 YLAI Fellow Marie Flore Morett, owner of Delices de Marie Florett , has worked to create a welcoming community in Haiti to empower women to seek employment opportunities and work to decrease the job and wage inequalities present in Haiti. By Caroline Sachdeva. Passion in the workplace. For Marie, creating is imperative.

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Finding your brand identity in 4 steps

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Developing your brand means deciding how you distinguish yourself to your audience, and it determines how many people will interact with your organization and what the world knows you stand for. Understand your audience and educate your community. Taking on bigger (and better funded) competitors is not easy,” says Professor Goldberg.

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EO Hosts International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations in Support of UN Sustainable Development Goals

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The interactive International Entrepreneurial Summit (IES) focused on supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) —17 goals and 169 targets to eradicate poverty, reverse inequality and halt climate change by 2030. Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

marking its highest level since 2017. The problem of housing affordability and supply is largely a political problem, and those policies (that prevent developers from building multi-family properties) are largely popular.

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Training in textiles offers bright future for new entrepreneurs in Dominica

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

She is working hard to achieve this goal by encouraging community members to master different skills, such as sewing and garment design. . Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Community issues motivating action.

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Why there are so few women in tech (and what you can do about it!)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Fast forward two-plus decades, and I’m now the CEO and co-founder of JetRockets, where we develop high-performing web and mobile app solutions that help our clients transform their businesses and grow. Studies specifically focused on software developers suggest that as few as 8-10% of all software developers are female.

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Startup School for Future Founders

Y Combinator

We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. This course will run for 6 weeks and is designed for students, engineers, creatives and anyone who is thinking about founding a startup at some point, but not actively working on one right now.

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