Topic 3 Empowering Young people become Green Entrepreneurs
Personal development:
fostering optimistic attitudes and mindsets through leadership development, soft-skills training and mentoring.
Business development:
access to markets, funding and networks.
Enabling environment facilitation:
with ongoing aftercare to support the young person even after their initial training has completed, technical instruction and advice on how to launch and run a successful business are provided.
Additional needs to support Green Entrepreneurs
- Assistance with fusing interests with a professional goal.
- Teaching perseverance and patience to create a market for original and creative concepts.
- The ability to “sell” impact through storytelling.
- Examples of people who have achieved both social and environmental effect.
- Advice on selecting the appropriate legal form.
- Education that incorporates impact-focused business models and/or theory of change.
- Business impact measurement abilities.
- Technical advice that is specific.
- An understanding of and connections to the various funding alternatives accessible to green and ethical enterprises.
- Specialized assistance in creating new markets for reducing products and services.
- Conferences, hackathons and networking events that are environmentally friendly.