Street Business School (SBS)

Street Business School ("sbs") combines Business training highly customized to the needs of the people living in poverty with coaching and mentoring that helps students gain the skills and confidence to succeed as microentrepreneurs. Sbs is scaling through a collaborative model, in which they partner with mission-aligned organizations serving communities with high rates of poverty who want to offer a proven skills program to those they serve. Sbs provides program expertise and partner organizations bring their localized expertise to customize the program.

Sbs continued to test and innovate through its "learning lab", bringing entrepreneurial education to 2,943 ugandan women directly last year.

Scale up - to date, 736 sbs coaches from 250 organizations in 34 countries throughout the world have been certified to deliver the sbs curriculum, and have reached more than 58,000 people. These organizations work on a variety of development issues, including everything from climate resilience to health, and understand the importance of addressing poverty in support of their work. Sbs continued to expand its network into both latin america and southeast asia, deomonstrating a globally held understanding of the power of women's economic empowerment through entrepreneurship as supportive of a wide variety of development outcomes. Sbs uganda piloted a promising community trainer model, continuing to experiment in an effort to increase efficiency and reach as many women exeriencing extreme poverty as possible. Preliminary results of the pilot project showed promising outcomes.