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Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow

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Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow. Katherine learned to overcome challenges, as the only woman in the company, through her determination to build sustainable marketing skills. Throughout this experience, she learned how to develop expertise on digital media platforms for monetization.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. Consider how you can partner with trusted organizations in your community to reach underrepresented groups who need customized support. Make your ecosystem inclusive.

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YLAI Goes Green: Investing in a Sustainable Future

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Investing in a Sustainable Future. When it comes to preserving and protecting the Earth for our communities and the generations to come to have access to green spaces, clean water and air, and health, it’ll take a collective investment far more significant than any individual. Modal Close Button. The time to care and act is now. .

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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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We are experiencing unprecedented opportunities for communities to evaluate how best to respond to short-term needs while building resilient solutions for long-term success. Having worked in over 100 communities for over 18 years, SourceLink understands that with ecosystem-building there will never be a check box to mark “done”.

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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

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Beleaf is a sustainable fashion company that uses scraps to “upcycle” and create new clothing and accessories. This revealed a much larger problem in Cinthya’s community and country: “clothing is the second-most environmentally-harmful industry, right after oil,” says Cinthya. What is Beleaf? Tackling challenges: COVID-19 and beyond.

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Pangyo Techno Valley: Leading the Charge in ESG Management and Building a Sustainable Industry Ecosystem

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ESG embodies a company’s commitment to maintaining sustainable business practices, upholding core values, and transparently reporting non-financial performance metrics. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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Using social media as a tool with one YLAI Fellow’s unique jewelry brand

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Through storytelling, entrepreneurs can share their experiences and the impact their organizations have on the community. Social media as a stage. Nathalie utilizes social media platforms as a stage to elevate support for artisan workers and women, a reflection of her company’s demographic. “We government.

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