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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

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Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. From here she was selected to take a Microsoft ICT course, where she learned about the power of technology for connecting people around the world.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. They're artists so they think big.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. So I feel really excited to be one of them, and I have had great mentors from Haas, and also from Stanford, who have really helped me.

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