Hope Ventures

(1) Impact Coaching - Hope Ventures coached 15 individuals and 3 groups in a variety of ways towards increased community impact and sustainable expression of care for their local communities.(2) Quito Entrepreneur Project - Serves local impoverished communities in Ecuador through the launch of a business incubator program with local partners. Continued Support through coaching, consulting, monitoring and evaluation for ongoing efforts among the business start-up community.(3) Haiti Entrepreneur Project - Serves impoverished communities in Port Au Prince through the support of a business incubator program run by local partners. Basic coaching, consulting, monitoring and evaluation for ongoing efforts among local partners in the business start-up community. On hold due to civil unrest.(4) Malawi - Facilitated training for local business mentors, trainers, and 16 entrepreneurs in Lilongwe to start and grow businesses.(5) Manila Entrepreneur Project - Due to the ramifications of the pandemic, we continued dialogue on laying the basic groundwork with local partners in Manila to launch an entrepreneur training program. This will launch in January of 2024.(6) Mozambique Entrepreneur Project - Helped poultry farming project in partnership with another 501(c)(3), Extreme Response. The project involved growing a 2,000 bird-per-cycle main farm, retail outlets, a local coop that supplies the chickens, and training for aspiring chicken farmers. The project had to navigate ISIS incursion, cyclones, and our country director's bout with Malaria and Typhoid.(7) Zimbabwe Entrepreneur Project - Business savings groups serving 50 underserved entrepreneurs.(8) South LA Entrepreneur Project - Continued serving impoverished communities in South LA through the support of a business incubator program run by a local partner. Basic coaching, consulting, monitoring ad evaluation for ongoing efforts among local partners. These are some of our numerical accomplishments:- 165 Entrepreneurs actively engaged in our training networks- 32 Business Mentors provided support to entrepreneurs- 10 Trainers from 5 different countries began their journey with entrepreneurs- 4 total projects continued in Ecuador, Malawi, Mozambique, and South LA- 1 New Project signed on to launch a business training program in Zimbabwe- 1 Chicken Farming Project continued in Mozambique that provided 250 eggs a day to children and trains local entrepreneurs to start their own businesses- 10 Partnerships with Local and Global Organizations - to impact communities around the globe- 1/2 of the entrepreneurs from our 2021 Malawi Program are reporting a 33% increase of income one year laterWe also implemented a formal program to measure the short and long-term impact of our projects.