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Who's Behind GEW?
Who hosts Global Entrepreneurship Week in the UK?
Youth Business International
GEW UK is now hosted by Youth Business International. Youth Business International is a global network of independent non-profit initiatives helping young people to start and grow their own business and create employment. HRH The Prince of Wales is our President.
YBI members assist under-served young entrepreneurs with a combination of training, access to capital, mentoring, and other business development services. They adapt this common approach to their local context, working in partnership with governments, businesses and multilateral and civil society organisations.
YBI was founded in year 2000. Our members have helped over 100,000 young people to create their own business and generate employment.
Visit the website to find out more: www.youthbusiness.org
Who founded Global Entrepreneurship Week?
Global Entrepreneurship Week was founded by Enterprise United Kingdom and the Kauffman Foundation.
Enterprise UK
The Global Entrepreneurship Week model is an adaptation of Enterprise Week in the UK, which was founded by Enterprise UK and ran for the first time in 2004.
Enterprise UK is a charity which aims to give people the confidence and ambition to be enterprising. Enterprise UK was founded as a campaigning organisation in 2004 by the British Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses.
Visit the website for more information: www.enterpriseuk.org
The Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Their vision is to foster “a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities.” In service of this vision, they focus grant making and operations on two areas: advancing entrepreneurship and improving the education of children and youth. They carry out their mission through four programmatic areas: Entrepreneurship, Advancing Innovation, Education, and Research and Policy.
Visit the website for more information: www.kauffman.org
