We’re on a mission to lift 1 million people from poverty through entrepreneurship, and our story is spreading. National television programs, major newspapers, and lifestyle publications have featured our proven business training and its impact on thousands of hardworking women around the world. It’s a story we’ll never get tired of telling—and you can read all about it here.
A world-class program calls for world-class exposure. Every time our story is shared, we are reaching new people, spreading our story and the stories of the hardworking women we work with. We are grateful for media coverage, support and referrals. We know that getting published puts us closer to our important goal of igniting 1 million women out of poverty.
FRANCHISING ENTREPRENEUR TRAINING: Street Business School offers business education and mentorship to help the world's poorest workers maximize their earning potential. Originally published in the Fall edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review By Grainne Harrington Uganda was named "the most entrepreneurial country in the world" in 2015...
Equipping Women With Business Training to Address Poverty Street Business School provides one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial training for women, proven to signifcantly increase incomes and lift families out of poverty with dignity. Read the full article...
Street Business School is honored to have our story shared in Boulder Magazine. Our organization was founded by three women from right here in Boulder County, and Vicki Martinez of Boulder Magazine captured both the founding story and the current state of SBS affairs in...
April 19, 2021 Tifany Boyles, Director of Philanthropy at Street Business School (SBS) wrote an article that was featured by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI entitled, "Closing a Nonprofit Well Takes Hard Work and Grace". By examining the sunsetting of BeadforLife, the sister organization...
END SLAVERY NOW January 8, 2021 Street Business School (SBS) was honored to be featured in the End Slavery Now story, "Arming Women in the Quest to Prevent Trafficking Part II", the second of a two-part article series about our partnership with the Jernigan Foundation and our...
Blue Avocado January 14, 2020 Street Business School was honored to be featured in the Blue Avocado story, "#RiskyBusiness: Why Earned Income Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be". "Is earned income really a silver bullet or is philanthropic income just as powerful? This drift towards 100 percent...
Pyxera Global November 22, 2019 Street Business School was honored to be featured in the Pyxera Global story, "Philanthropy is Risky Business". The post speaks to our social franchise model that aims to scale empowering women through economic opportunity as well as our partnership with the Schooner...
END SLAVERY NOW August 16, 2019 Street Business School was honored to be featured in the End Slavery Now story, "Arming Women in the Quest to Prevent Trafficking". The post speaks to our work empowering women in the aims of preventing human trafficking as well as our...
Street Business School was honored to be featured on End Slavery Now's post 'Sex-trafficking Prevention - The Forgotten 'P' ". The post speaks to the work of SBS to empower women to create a econonic security for themselves and their children to help prevent sex-trafficking. END...
Street Business School is honored to be featured in a publication by Give.org, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance in "Advancing Collaboration with Street Business School . The BBB Wise Giving Alliance works with charities to strengthen donor trust in the charitable sector. "In addition to its...
December 12, 2018 Street Business School is honored to collaborate with Spring Impact on the article "Is Financial Sustainability Being Hijacked?". The article discusses the challenges faced by organizations that shift to 100% earned income and how the social franchise model developed by SBS in partnership...
Street Business School was honored to be featured in the Barron's story, "5 Key Areas Where Philanthropy is Providing a Path for a Better Tomorrow." BARRON'S December 10, 2018 by Abby Schulz and Beckie Strum To make enough money to feed herself and her baby son, Ruth Baribwa, deserted...
TRAVEL BOULDER MAR 8, 2018 by Amy Heckel It started with one woman, just trying to make ends meet. She was sitting on the ground outside her mud hut in Africa, rolling paper into colorful paper beads that she hoped to sell. Her name was Millie Grace Akena. Millie...
REAL LEADERS PODCAST DEC 22, 2016 CEO and Co-founder Devin Hibbard was featured in this podcast recently, offering a deep dive into our history and our future with Street Business School. Listen to the full episode >> ...
ENTREPRENEUR DEC 2, 2016 Street Business School was honored to be featured in this Entrepreneur story, which gives a great overview about our work empowering women through entrepreneurial training. Eleven years ago, three American women with no business training startedBeadforLife, a fair trade organization in Uganda...
PEOPLE SEP 10, 2016 We were honored to be recognized by People in this feature that delves into our history, yet describes our Street Business School foundation of entrepreneurial training and empowerment for women. In 2011, Teddy Namuyiga was desperate. She was living with her three daughters outside...