While
affording opportunity for some, the impact of globalization is
the source of challenge and reversals for countless peoples across
the earth. Yet, in the midst of the uncertainty and change is
a spiritual and entrepreneurial dynamic largely resistant to the
fluctuations of the world's economic system — a dynamic that drives
the bottom-up economy. It is the dynamic that releases stability
into the top-down economy. This dynamic is the focus and uniqueness
of our thrust.
Our
goal is to encourage, harness and release those called as believing
entrepreneurs to bear a positive impact on their local communities.
The spiritual principles of economics releases
their potential to operate with the acumen needed to be a blessing
to their families and communities, while building up and strengthening
the community dynamic.
For
the bottom-up focus of our program, we train potential and first
stage entrepreneurs with the skills to operate very basic businesses.
These micro- and small-businesses, commonly referred to as SMEs
(Small Micro-Enterprises) serve to start feeding a family. This
is the original basis of free-enterprise, which operated in conjunction
with community. Free enterprise in its purist sense is not a Western
phenomenon, but rather has its roots in the Jewish Torah.
As
such, our program's uniqueness is tied to the faith-based foundations
of community and entrepreneurship unveiled; the spiritual equipping
we impart to prospective community builders; and the training
we provide for those who will lead the support group of entrepreneurs
that will meet and grow together.
These
bottom-up and top-down strategies are both progressive and exclusive.
They work to support the efforts of each other. Our top-down program
provides the training of local entrepreneur enablers, who will
mentor and work with new business owners to overcome the hurdles
tied to building a new business. When the new businesses stabilize,
the owners advance to serving as community builders, as the ripples
of the program extend to help others.
Our
top-top strategies also include leadership training for those
gifted administrators, referred to by many as modern-day Josephs
and Daniels, whose efforts are at the forefront of faith-based
initiatives being employed by strategic-visionary entrepreneurs,
innovative executives, as well as governmental pacesetters.
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