Entrepreneurship
Igniting Future Business Leaders
Avasant Foundation’s iGNITE entrepreneurship training equips youth with the tools to unleash their creativity and become tech-savvy for conceptualizing and launching their own businesses. iGNITE curriculum grew out of Avasant’s work for the World Bank and with the government of Uganda on designing a Center of Excellence for technopreneurship.
In 2017, AF scaled this successful model by engaging partner universities such as ISBAT in Uganda & UTech in Jamaica, ICT employers, industry groups, centers of Innovation, local Hackathons and financing programs who provided mentorship programs and other critical supports. iGNITE is expected to create a snowball effect through a ‘train-the-trainer’ model and online courses that would benefit close to 22,000 youth in a few years.
Michael Verch
PRESIDENT, AHTIC, HAITIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Avasant“Avasant Foundation helps our youth gain valuable and world class knowledge necessary to become competitive in a global market.”
“Avasant Foundation has been a key partner in impact sourcing for our company since we decided to invest in Jamaica as one of our key operating regions. Avasant Foundation’s role in building income equality and community empowerment has been one that we value and continue to engage in as we scale to our target of multi-site investment in Jamaica.
“Recruiting talent is easy but recruiting talent where we have vested interest in the success of the cohort is meaningful. Our trainers engage by providing their services to Avasant Foundation and in return, we get to offer these candidates a chance to be part of our team VXI Jamaica. Our own training manager has shared her talents with four classes in the past, and our trainers just finished graduating one class a month ago. We believe it to be an immersive experience for our trainers to ensure that their passion to develop raw talent continues to be fueled by rendering community service.
“Chitra, Executive Director of Avasant Foundation, and her team has been proactive in ensuring the partnership works. They are organized and are able to deliver results benefiting our mutual goal of positive community impact. We recommend Avasant Foundation as a skills training partner to any corporation that would like to have a functional CSR, one that is not just a branding campaign, but one that has a direct impact to societies they operate in. We also recommend Avasant Foundation to receive grants that will enable them to expand their reach in developing talent globally. The foundation is transparent, engaged, and will deliver results as it has for VXI Jamaica for several years.”
Kristine Bondoc
Country Manager, VXI
Avasant