Global Initiatives

USA:

• Working with companies to get thousands of young people outdoors, active, and engaged in making a difference in the world around them.
• Rolling-out young entrepreneur programs for under-served populations in the USA.
• Working with USA schools and universities to increase core life skills in young people.
• Helping students develop business plans for implementing social & environmental initiatives in their local communities and around the world.
• Using media and social networks to bring visibility to amazing young people who are making a difference in their local communities and/or around the world.

Tanzania:

• Kilimanjaro Young Girls Network (active): Help support young females to stay in school and/or learn vocational trades.
• Msaranga Girls Soccer League (active): Help support the region's first soccer league for village girls in the Kilimanjaro region.
• Second Chance Educational Center (active): Installed computer lab and security for the school (complete). Help support orphans and the extreme poor as they fight to continue their educations (ongoing).
• Entrepreneur training for young people in underserved communities.
• Supporting high potential youth through university programs.
• Install low energy computer labs in schools (active).
• Provide protective fencing for an organic garden for orphanage and school (complete).
• Providing business expansion loans to women (request received).
• Vocational training programs for village students & adults in the Kilimanjaro region (request received).

Nepal

• Grameen Foundation Nepal: Students training farmers to grow organic produce for the tourism industry.
• GPA Nepal/NFP Nepal (due diligence stage): Social entrepreneurship training for young Nepalese communty development entrepreneurs.
• TWN Nepal (due diligence stage). Team for Nature and Wildlife is a youth led environmental organization that is inspiring, educating and empowering the young people for eco-friendly development - addressing youth poverty and unemployment in the process.
• Annapurna Women's Expedition (active): Empower, educate, and create employment opportunities in the future for disadvantaged Nepalese youths and women through outdoor adventure tourism and sports. We are helping to raise visibility for Empowering Women of Nepal.

Israel:

• Hosted joint delegation from Israel and Palestine. Exploring feasibility of young entrepreneur academies, with a heavy emphasis on conflict resolution.

Peru:

• Currently financing business start-up loans in the Cusco region (all loans are being paid back).
• Partnering to create safe drinking water system for a village in the Sacred Valley.
• Partnering with an alternative school for abused children (societareimmersion program).
• Partnering with a program to keep poor students in school.
• Exploring eco-tourism business for a village in the Sacred Valley.
• Exploring waste water treatment options for villages in the Sacred Valley.

Pakistan:

• Training students and young adults with the skills required to build capacity (business planning underway.)

Rwanda:

• Business start-up loans (payback underway).

Paraguay:

• Financing a business expansion loan (loan is being paid back).

Morocco:

• Hosted a group of Moroccan leaders who focus on youth empowerment. Due diligence underway for feasibility of rolling out programs.

Switzerland:

• Coming in 2012 - Explore the effects of global warming on Switzerland's glaciers. See what the Swiss are doing to combat the changes.

New Zealand:

• Coming in 2012 - Epic environmental programs will be rolling out in 2012.

Caribbean:

• Young entrepreneur academies (Fall 2011).
• Expedition to explore the impact of proposed sea level rise from global warming (Fall 2011).

Requests to run future programs:

Croatia, India, Kenya, St. Lucia, Mexico, Burundi, Zamia, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Russia, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Lagos, South Africa, and more...