Economic opportunity and entrepreneurship can help ensure children an education. Entrepreneurship creates cross-cutting impact that will lead to a generational change in extreme poverty. At the end of the day, an investment in economic opportunity is an investment in education....
How Economic Opportunity & Connection can be a Solution to Violent Extremism. A few weeks ago, I was watching television coverage of the most recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, trying to understand why these senseless, seemingly random acts of violence and...
Measuring Facts ~ For more than a decade of my career, I have been a nonprofit fundraiser. So, when I was presented the opportunity to join Street Business School (SBS) in Uganda this year, I came with the critical eye of a development professional. I...
Gender Balance: Every year on March 8, International Women’s Day serves as a celebration of everything women achieve and a call-to-action for advancing gender parity. This year’s theme, Balance for Better, calls on business, government and civil society to build a gender-balanced world—and it extends...
The quest for financial sustainability is in danger of becoming an unhealthy trend in which earned income is assumed to be the gold standard for all philanthropic work. Funders understandably want to know when their funding will no longer be needed. But for some funders...
Extreme poverty rates have declined dramatically over the past 25 years. Nearly 1.1 billion people have moved out of extreme poverty since 1990, but around 10.7 percent of the global population still earn less than US$1.90 a day, according to the most recent World Bank...
By Devin Hibbard Language can illustrate so much about a culture. Eskimos who have an intimate relationship with the Arctic have more than a dozen words for snow. In India, there is no word in which a woman can be possessive of a man (“my man”...
By Devin Hibbard, CEO: Street Business School & BeadforLife Why has Street Business School - a program focused on helping increase their income - a semi-finalist in the Billion Acts Hero Awards sponsored by @PeaceJam Foundation? It is because the link between economic scarcity and injustice...
Uganda is one of the countries greatly vulnerable to climate change in both the economy and wellbeing of the people. More than 80% of Ugandans live in rural areas, relying on agriculture for their livelihood. Change in weather patterns leads to lack of food and flood damage, as...
By Devin Hibbard, CEO and Co-founder of Street Business School-by BeadforLife. Incredibly honored to be featured in the podcast Finding Impact, run by the brilliant and refreshingly human @AndyNarracott. In it, I talk about how true impact happens in the last 18 inches. What I mean is that...
We have seen firsthand how truly impactful Street Business School's grassroots model is. As we visit and revisit our students, we have seen that our training impacts not only our courageous female students but also their families, their communities, and the environments in which they live. In...
