Business - Leadership
Business and leadership skills are some of the best ways to serve and empower the poorest of the poor and to have a platform for relationships and sharing the gospel. Placements within this track are focused on one of these areas:
- Job creation and business development
- Leadership and management training
Recent grads who have an interest or background in business, entrepreneurship and community development are needed to join small businesses that are creating employment opportunites or NGOs that are seeking to give the poor a hand up. Basic business instruction and training can empower many individuals to provide for their own families, which then leads to transformed communities. The benefits that come from gainful employment include increased self worth, better health and education for families, stronger families and communities, more local stability and peace and stronger local institutions, including churches. A holistic ministry approach is created when initiatives like this work in conjunction with spiritual outreach, education, health and justice.
What would I do? What does a typical day look like?
Build and strengthen small businesses in struggling communities and broad community development through:
- Learning the cultural setting and the way business is done in a specific country.
- Peer-to-peer coaching with local Christian business people.
- Develop partnerships with other projects and organizations such as micro-credit and community development initiatives
- Learn to overseas operations (budgeting, adminstration, accounting and leadership) of a local office
- Glean leadership skills and experience while working with and along-side established global/regional leaders
What we’re looking for in Business - Leadership volunteers:
- Love for God and people
- Business/economics/administration background
- Self-starters/entrepreneurs
- Hard workers with willing, servant hearts
