GLOBAL BRIGADES USA

$81,360

Raised by Chapter Since 2010

Business Brigades at Columbia University

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Business Brigades is a discipline of Global Brigades, the world\'s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The Columbia chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members annually.

Business Brigades provides business consulting and strategic investment to support under resourced microenterprises in developing countries while respecting local culture and improving the environment. Business Brigades focus is in remote and rural communities in Panama where we partner with other local development organizations to assess, implement and monitor sustainable development projects.

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Columbia University Business Brigade January 2017 Panama

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Global Brigades offers 7-day Business Brigades throughout the year in Honduras and Panama. Business Brigades volunteers empowers rural communities in Panama without access to financial services and business guidance by providing micro-enterprise counseling, financial planning assistance and strategic investment. During the brigade, volunteers divide into small groups to conduct client visits in which they get to know the client and assess each client’s level of financial competency, entrepreneurial aspirations, and/or business knowledge. Volunteers then provide educational and capacity building assistance in the form of workshops. Topics range from personal finance to basic accounting and business planning.

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