Dear Amazing Leadership Initiatives and Respective Donors,
Because of your generous donation, students in Leadership Initiative's International Business Alliance Program (IBAP) are able to work with Nigerian Business Leaders to help solve real world problems. While furthering these student’s knowledge of business, the International Business Alliance Program helps to solve local developmental problems that Nigerian Business leaders encounter.
Oftentimes, Leadership Initiatives business leaders run into problems that they are unsure of how to deal with while trying to grow and develop their businesses. Very often, they lack the knowledge to come up with an innovative solution to solve the problem. This is where our IBAP students come into play. They decipher an innovative solution for the business leader, while attaining skills they could not obtain elsewhere.
IBAP students will come away with problem-solving and critical thinking skills, as well as setting themselves apart during the college application process. While gaining these tools, they also help Nigerian business leaders to surpass their problems and continue to grow their businesses.
Students are selected to become a part of the IBAP through the envision summer program, Global Young Innovators Initiative. In this program, up to twenty teams participate and the top five are offered the opportunity to become IBAP students. If they choose to accept, they enter into a two-year partnership with Leadership Initiatives, changing the world by continuing to assist Nigerian business leaders with real world problems that they encounter.
Currently, IBAP teams have been assisting businesses in making catalogs, logos, and business cards to advertise their product. In order to do so, IBAP students have refined their skills in Photoshop to produce aesthetically pleasing images for these companies. Previously, business owners in Nigeria did not have the ability to create advertisement tools. Our goal is to innovate business in developing worlds so that our businesses have a leg up on their competition.
Along with a chance to change the world, they will also have access to the Leadership Initiatives mentorship program, SAT/ACT training from our partners at TestRocker, and letters of recommendation from their business partners and our dedicated board and staff members.
This beneficial relationship is only possible because of your generosity. It allows Leadership Initiatives to continue our efforts and develop independent profit-generating businesses that serve as models for growth in surrounding communities.
Director of Operations, Marshall Bailly states,
"Project beneficiaries fill voids in the local economy while improving their families' health, education and financial stability. Previous leaders have sent their brothers, sisters and children to school, helped invest in new businesses within the community, offered new services to community members such as the disabled, establishing infrastructure for the future growth of Nigeria.
Leadership Initiatives will be regularly providing updates and insight into these projects as the month's progress through Global Giving’s reporting program. Of course, at any time you can request a project update to learn up to date info on how this project is progressing.
As a supporter of "IBAP", Leadership Initiatives would love to have you involved if you ever want to help grow our programs, learn of ways you can participate or have new ideas on how to develop our programs please contact me at mbailly@leadershipinitiatives.org. Your hard work and intelligence is the greatest gift we could receive as we attempt to create a better world.
Thank you once again from the bottom of everyone's heart here at Leadership Initiatives. If you would ever like to speak to our staff on the ground, a project leader, one of our Business Alliance student participants, we would love to set up a Skype chat for you, so you can personally see the change you are creating."
Wishing you the best!
Sincerely,
Austin Kunde
Assistant Director of Special Projects
Dear Amazing Leadership Initiatives and Respective Donors,
Because of your generous donation, students in Leadership Initiative's International Business Alliance Program (IBAP) are able to work with Nigerian Business Leaders to help solve real world problems. While furthering these students knowledge of business, the International Business Alliance Program helps to solve local developmental problems that Nigerian Business leaders encounter.
Oftentimes, Leadership Initiatives business leaders run into problems that they are unsure of how to deal with while trying to grow and develop their businesses. Very often, they lack the knowledge to come up with an innovative solution to solve the problem. This is where our IBAP students come into play. They decipher an innovative solution for the business leader, while attaining skills they could not obtain elsewhere.
IBAP students will come away with problem-solving and critical thinking skills, as well as setting themselves apart during the college application process. While gaining these tools, they also help nigerian business leaders to surpass their problems and continue to grow their businesses.
Students are selected to become a part of the IBAP through the envison summer program, Global Young Innovators Initiative. In this program, up to twenty teams participate and the top five are offered the opportunity to become IBAP students. If they choose to accept, they enter into a two year partnership with Leadership Initiatives, changing the world by continuing to assist Nigerian business leaders with real world problems that they encounter.
Specifically, in the Chicago Global Young Innovators Initiative program of 2016, a team helped a nigerian business leader named Failat turn her business around. She is in the business of soap making and was struggling to find a way to package her soap efficeintly and advertise her business. Using a culmination of thorough research and in-depth discussion to formulate solutions to address her problems, they will found ways for Failat’s business to become more popular in her area through facilitated promotion of the product and reusable packaging systems.
Along with a chance to chage the world, they will also have access to the Leadership Initiatives mentorship program, SAT/ACT training from our partners at TestRocker, and letters of recommendation from their business partners and our dedicated board and staff members.
This beneficial relationship is only possible because of your generousity. It allows Leadership Initiatives to continue our efforts and develop independent profit-generating businesses that serve as models for growth in surrounding communities.
Director of Operations, Marshall Bailly states,
"Project beneficiaries fill voids in the local economy while improving their families' health, education and financial stability. Previous leaders have sent their brothers, sisters and children to school, helped invest in new businesses within the community, offered new services to community members such as the disabled, establishing infrastructure for the future growth of Nigeria.
Leadership Initiatives will be regularly providing updates and insight into these projects as the month's progress through GlobalGiving's reporting program. Of course, at any time you can request a project update to learn up to date info on how this project is progressing.
As a supporter of "IBAP",Leadership Initiatives would love to have you involved if you ever want to help grow our programs, learn of ways you can participate or have new ideas on how to develop our programs please contact me at mbailly@leadershipinitiatives.org. Your hard work and intelligence is the greatest gift we could receive as we attempt to create a better world.
Thank you once again from the bottom of everyone's heart here at Leadership Initiatives. If you would ever like to speak to our staff on the ground, a project leader, one of our Business Alliance student participants, we would love to set up a Skype chat for you, so you can personally see the change you are creating."
Wishing you the best!
Sincerely,
Austin
Assistant Director of Operations
Dear Cherished Donors,
Your support over the last few years has fostered phenomenal growth among countless young innovators, working to foster economic growth in third world countries. Moreover, your invaluable contributions have also helped many young leaders enrich their learning with valuable experiences that you have helped make possible. We would like to take this opportunity to introduce our summer program this year.
In the coming weeks, Leadership Initiatives will be hosting a series of session at universities across the country. The conference - Global Youth Innovators Initiative - is result of a combined effort between Leadership Initiatives and Envision, an organization that seeks to enrich high school students with real-world experiences of different career pathways.
Throughout the Global Youth Innovators Initiative, students will work with a team of other high-achieving students to address a challenge facing a business in Nigeria. Teams will communicate with their Nigerian counterpart via Skype as they consider the problem, research possible answers, help develop and sustainable solution and assist in the project implementation.
In the past, students have found ways to make water purification systems more sustainable, designed innovative fundraising campaigns to help start and support a small business in Africa, and developed a plan to combat computer illiteracy through educational opportunities.
At the conclusion of the conference, teams will present their challenge and solution to their peers, faculty and a panel of experts from Leadership Initiatives. A select number of students from each team will be given the opportunity to join Leadership Initiatives’ International Business Alliance Program to continue working with their Nigerian colleagues. Hundreds of students apply for this program each year, and only three to five percent of all applicants are accepted into the program annually. Those select students who join the International Business Alliance Program, will continue with their work and leave a lasting impact in developing communities across the world.
Sincerely,
Marshall and the entire Leadership Initiatives Family
___________________________
Marshall Bailly II
Executive Director
Leadership Initiatives
4410 Massachusetts Ave., NW #236
Washington, DC 20016
(p) 202-465-4796 (f) 202-280-1221
Dear Amazing Leadership Initiatives Supporter,
I would like to take a moment to introduce one of our international business alliance program teams from Texas who is transforming Sani's fish farm in a phenomenal way. The TMI Episcopal School of Texas has been hard at work with Texas A&M to create new shading gear to cover entire fish farm pools to cool the water the fish live in.
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Dear Treasured Donors,
Your support over the last few years has fostered phenomenal growth among countless young innovators, working to foster economic growth in third world countries. Moreover, your invaluable contributions have also helped many young leaders enrich their learning with valuable experiences that you have helped make possible. In light of the upcoming holiday season, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce one such team of leaders.
Meet Carter Haak, Ishaan Sandhir, Aaron Pfeiffer, Jack Smalley, and Jonathan Thesing, a team of bright students who have been working tirelessly to make an impact in the impoverished village of Yelwa, Nigeria. Their story began in March 2015, when Carter attended Envision’s National Youth Leadership Forum on National Security, where he had the chance to speak with Leadership Initiatives’ Executive Director Marshall Bailly.
“Once Marshall told me about the International Business Alliance Program, I was hooked,” says Carter. “I took the chance to jump on this opportunity, not knowing that in just a few short months, it would change my life.”
After accepting a coveted position as a team leader within the International Business Alliance Program, Carter reached out to his friends at his local high school, The Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio. Once the team was ready, they were partnered with Hamza Ya’au, a welder in the Yelwa Village in Nigeria; they were tasked with designing solutions to problems facing Hamza’s business - a job they approached with gusto. After analyzing Hamza’s business, the students identified one major area of improvement for NEWco Welders: accounting. Seeing that Hamza lacked a concrete financial management system, the team went to work. Through extensive research and financial analysis, the students were able to create a method for Hamza to track and manage his profits and expenses, allowing him to invest more of his time in expanding his business.
Seeing their solution put to action, the students found the drive to further enhance Hamza’s business - this time through product development. After spending hours at the drawing board, the Miami Valley IBAP team created a new design for a gate - one of Hamza’s main products - that was stronger and more unique than competing designs. As soon as the team’s design was introduced to the Yelwa community, Hamza received a large amount of orders; with their innovative work, these students were able to directly affect a change in the lives of many across the world.
However, the IBAP team’s efforts didn’t stop at Hamza; the students also decided to sponsor a growing phone repair business through fundraising efforts. For the past few months, the students have organized various bake sales and weekly doughnut sales at their local high school. Although they were met with struggles, the team persevered, raising an impressive total of one thousand five hundred dollars for their partner business. Moreover, their hard work has also united their community in support of their cause.
For more information on the young innovators at Leadership Initiatives, please visit lichange.org. Once again, we are honored by your support and are deeply thankful for your help in empowering the future generations.
Sincerely,
Marshall and the entire Leadership Initiatives Family
Marshall Bailly II
Executive Director
Leadership Initiatives
4410 Massachusetts Ave., NW #236
Washington, DC 20016
(p) 202-465-4796 (f) 202-280-1221
www.LIchange.org
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