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Sherif Ghali built a chamber. Then he handed over the keys.
He started with 15 entrepreneurs. A decade later, Sherif Ghali stepped aside as chief executive of a Ghanaian business network reporting more than 19,000 members, with another institution already on his agenda.
iGen Foundation puts a business idea in better company
A Melbourne charity pairs entrepreneurship with the art of meeting people outside your own circle. Its most useful lesson may be that a business plan needs a social life.
PULSE Foundation makes room for the second act
Belgium’s entrepreneurship foundation backs the climb and the comeback. Its revealing wager: a founder who closes a business still has something worth investing in.
CEJE gives students a business to run before a job to get
Spain’s Junior Empresa network turns university knowledge into work for real clients. Its most interesting lesson is how students earn the right to be taken seriously.
Kivu Entrepreneurs and the business of getting started
In Goma, a business idea needs more than applause. Kivu Entrepreneurs puts training, coaching and access to finance between the dream and the opening day.
League of Innovators makes ambition cheaper
Canada’s young founders can buy advice with shares they may one day regret selling. League of Innovators offers another bargain: free coaching, no equity, and people to call when the plan unravels.
Maggie Gu Is Betting That Agency Outlasts Every Skill
A diplomat's first journey to Africa became a twenty-year argument about who gets to shape the future. Now the Tomorrow Foundation founder is moving the conversation from access to agency.
SEED SPOT Built an Accelerator for the Founders the Accelerator Economy Forgot
The Phoenix nonprofit does not take equity. It teaches founders the unglamorous work - budgets, buyer math, customer interviews and the three-minute pitch - then uses philanthropy to put better networks within reach.
Guelph’s small-business help desk has homework for you
Business Centre Guelph-Wellington pairs local entrepreneurs with advice, training and a chance at grant funding. The bargain is straightforward: bring a real problem, then do the work.
HOPin Academy Is Building a Reason to Stay in Northern Ghana
In Tamale, HOPin Academy puts business coaching, digital skills and a footballer’s Plan B within reach. Its bet: young people should be able to build a future without leaving home to find one.
ACE.SG opens doors for Singapore's startup hopefuls
The trade association runs an equity-free incubator, connects founders with investors and helps overseas startups find their feet. Its real proposition is access - with homework attached.
GİRVAK bets on the student before the startup
Türkiye’s Entrepreneurship Foundation starts with a young person, a scholarship and an introduction. Its expanding network shows how far that modest proposition can travel.
EGC Takes Balkan Founders to New York. The Homework Comes Home.
Entrepreneurs for Global Change gives young founders funded access to American mentors, university incubators and a tougher audience for their ideas. Its most useful lessons begin when the pitch needs rewriting.