Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a new cross-border business exchange programme aimed at helping new or would-be entrepreneurs to acquire the relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise and experienced businessmen or women, looking for fresh perspectives and international cooperation opportunities.

The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme, financed by the European Commission, puts innovative ideas into practice. Whether you are a new or highly experienced entrepreneur, the programme will offer strong added value to your business.

Exchange of knowledge and experience, better business networking possibilities across Europe and new commercial relations for European businesses are guaranteed.

read more about the programme at http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/index.php

UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs – people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.

London Business Guide Organisation(LBG) have been working to improve the infrastructure of minority business community in the UK in order to enable the community to contribute more effectively to the British economy. LBG is also a private umbrella business organisation, offering Business Support Services in the UK to clients and members in EU countries.

LBG is engaged in Business Consulting, International Marketing, access to finance in the EU, Consulting for EU funding, organising International Business Conference & Networking Events, Business training and workshops, Social business projects, managements, Publishing Business Directory UK-EU, Start-up business services for SMEs and provides a wide range of management, marketing, new business development services to local enterprises as well as foreign companies. With a fully fitted workshop and fully qualified staff, the company is able to offer a professional business support services to businesses people in the UK and EU countries. The service is intended to be cost effective, enabling clients to increase revenue. The business delivers reliable business support services that are developed from scratch and are highly practical. The products feature comprehensive instructions, making them essential for business purposes, and they are available from the workshop at a reasonable price.

For more info go to http://londonbusinessguide.org/

Join Euclid Network and join a growing community of civil society leaders. Join the hub of ideas and opportunities and connect to your peers across Europe.

Who can join?
Civil Society Leaders. Civil society refers to third sector, social economy and the not-for-profit sector including non-governmental organisations (NGOs), social enterprises, grant makers, foundations and cooperatives.

A ‘Leader’ is the senior executive, heads of department and/or senior managers who are able to implement change in their organisations

Why join?
Full members have access to a wide range of benefits:

•The community of third sector leaders
•Free and discounted places at events, workshops and roundtables
•Access to opportunities to speak and run sessions at European events
•24 hour access to the secretariat for support, advice and expertise
•A free bi-weekly newsletter

For more info go to http://www.euclidnetwork.eu/

SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small business start, grow and succeed nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

SCORE is headquartered in Herndon, VA and Washington, DC and has 350 chapters throughout the United States and its territories, with over 13,000 volunteers nationwide. Both working and retired executives and business owners donate time and expertise as business counselors. SCORE was founded in 1964

For more info go to www.score.org

Organizational Overview: Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) is an entrepreneurial, results-oriented nonprofit organization dedicated to finding, testing, and implementing new ideas for making peace and humanitarian operations more efficient, effective and equitable. Since its creation in 2005, PDT has grown rapidly and employs over 130 staff operating in over six countries. In recognition of its impact and innovative model, PDT was recently awarded the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. For more information on how PDT is building a better peace, go to www.peacedividendtrust.org

Position Overview: PDT is seeking an innovative and experienced Director of Development who can work with its executive leadership to create and implement a robust development program with an emphasis on diversifying its donor portfolio. Reporting to the Executive Director and working closely with the Deputy Director and key board members, the Director of Development will develop and execute against a strategic development plan, creating, building upon and securing significant relationships with high potential donors, private foundations and corporations. Bringing a strong alignment with the mission and values of PDT, the Director of Development will thrive in an entrepreneurial and outcome-driven environment, be flexible to changing needs and contribute strategically to the overall mission.

Responsibilities:

•Develop and implement a targeted, strategic fundraising plan that includes prospect research, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship development for short and long term fundraising campaigns.

•Build and manage a high functioning development program, leveraging as broad an array of giving opportunities as possible, including multi-year gifts, planned and estate giving

•Maintain a personal portfolio of high capacity and mid-level donors with major gift potential, including corporate, foundation and individual funding sources

•Lead the preparation of high-quality proposals, grants, reports, mailings and acknowledgements required to support ongoing fundraising activities

•Partner closely with the Executive Director and Deputy Director to strategize new ways to engage and recognize donors

•Oversee a donor relations/fundraising data system that ensures appropriate and timely coding and acknowledgement of donors and reporting for all stakeholders

•Innovate new ways to integrate donors into PDT projects and initiatives with the goal of building donor-national partner identification

•Manage board relations and engage board members in playing an active role in fundraising

Additional Qualifications:

•Several years of fundraising experience, including significant success in soliciting and closing major gifts from corporations, foundations and individual sources. Proven record of successful management of a portfolio of major donors and knowledge of the major donor market in the U.S.; experience working internationally preferred

•Experience or interest in building a high-functioning development program from the ground up

•Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, including written and oral communication, with the ability to engage and inspire a wide range of audiences.

•Ability to work independently and take initiative in a fast-paced, rapidly-evolving work environment; willingness to take risks

•Demonstrated passion for the mission, vision and values of PDT; enthusiasm for international development and entrepreneurship

•Ability and willingness to travel 40-60%, including international travel to PDT sites

•Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

How to Apply:
Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format and addressed to Scott Gilmore, at http://jobs.cgcareers.org/application.aspx?id=1676. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Description:
Position: Kiva Fellows Program Coordinator
Reports to: Kiva Fellows Program Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Full time with salary and benefits

The Company:

Called the “hottest non-profit on the planet” by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world’s first person-to-person lending marketplace for the poor. In just 4 years, Kiva has raised $100+ million for 300,000+ entrepreneurs in 50+ countries. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with an intense focus on alleviating global poverty. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level – targeting $1 billion in loans by 2015 and expansion into new areas (e.g. student loans, climate change, etc). Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva’s team has 50 employees and 500+ volunteers.

The Job:

The Kiva Fellows Program (KFP) Coordinator will coordinate all aspects of recruitment, screening, onboarding, training, and offboarding of Kiva Fellows. The KFP Coordinator will work inside all of the program’s systems and directly oversee the experiences of every potential and current applicant, as well as all active and former fellows. As the KFP Coordinator ensures that the program is meeting its deadlines and providing superior customer service, s/he will also innovate within the existing systems in order to drive the program’s improvement. With a deep understanding of the experiences of all potential, current, and former Kiva Fellows, the KFP Coordinator will be responsible for shifting program focus or steering adjustments in order to best serve all stakeholders at Kiva and at our microfinance institution field partners.

Responsibilities:

• Screen Kiva Fellows with high quality and prompt customer service
• Design and run Kiva Fellows trainings at Kiva headquarters, including curriculum and logistics
• Coordinate end-of-fellowship activities with the aim to increase knowledge transfer and consolidate findings
• Ensure that the quality of the experience of each Kiva Fellow remains high
• Plan and implement recruitment efforts to attract high-quality Kiva Fellows
• Work with KFP Team interns to maximize their impact
• Liaise with other teams at Kiva in order to coordinate needs
• Maintain and innovate systems that support Kiva Fellows and sharing of information

The Ideal Candidate:
• Previously worked with developing world volunteer program or served as a Kiva Fellow
• Experience working abroad in the developing world
• Program design experience
• Superior customer service orientation, both for internal and external audiences
• Adept at learning new computer tools, familiarity with Salesforce or a comparable CRM a plus
• Great team player
• Strong public speaking skills a plus
• Superior organizational and problem-solving skills
• Someone with a “ready to help” attitude, friendly personality
• Evolved time management skills and a proven track record of managing projects
• Fluency in a foreign language (esp. Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic) a plus
• BA or equivalent degree required

How to Apply:

If Interested:
* Send email to jobs@kiva.org. Include in the Subject Line: Kiva Fellows Program Coordinator
* Include resume and brief cover letter explaining why you’re interested / qualified

Please do not contact the office directly with any questions or follow-up inquiries. Due to the number of applicants for this position, we regret that we can only respond to candidates that we would like to interview.

Scholarship / Financial aid: First, second, and third place authors will receive a $1,000 honorarium

Date: N/A


Deadline: 18 June 2010

Open to: Students and young professionals aged 18-30
Announcement follows

The Center for International Private Enterprise invites young people to share their ideas on how to create opportunities for youth to strengthen democracy and the private sector in their own countries.

Who can participate:
Students and young professionals aged 18-30.

Contest Deadline:
18 June 2010

Winners Announced:
Fall 2010

Essay Length:
2,000 – 3,000 words

Essay categories:
Democracy that delivers
Enterpreneurship and society
Women and participation

First, second, and third place authors for each category will receive a $1,000 honorarium , and winning essays from each category will be published as Economic Reform Feature Service articles.
Website: http://www.cipe.org/essay/

SPARK with the University and the Student Parliament will organize Mitrovica Summer University 2010. We would like to use this opportunity to introduce you with MSU and to invite you to participate in the Summer University.
Mitrovica Summer University 2010 will be held 16th July – 31st July 2010. MSU is offering 6 courses during the period of two weeks. Each course will be co-taught by an international professor and a local co-professor. Additionally, for each course an assistant professor, leading workshops in the afternoons, as well as a Logistic Officer providing the Course logistics are appointed. The courses will be taught in English and for some courses translation into Serbian will be provided. Approximately 90 students out of 150 participants will be from Mitrovica, 35 from Southeast Europe and 25 from the EU/other. Scholarships are provided to SEE and local participants.
There will be no tuition fees. Books, readers, accommodation and food will be provided free of charge to students from South East Europe. Travel costs will be reimbursed.
International students do not pay tuition fees, but should cover their own travel costs. In addition, accommodation and food will be provided at modest price. International students should cover their travel costs.
A course lasts 10 working days with 8 hours of daily work (including assignments and homework). The classes are interactive and include lectures, discussions, group work, field trips, assignments, papers and/or presentations. Successful participants will receive an official ECTS-compatible `Sumer University Certificate`. Next to the academic courses, parties, drinks, weekend excursions, field trips, sports tournaments, and debates will be organized for all participants

http://www.my-program.org/cms/en/mzu-2010/

The Balkan Case Challenge (BCC) aims at opening up opportunities and new perspectives for excellent students from Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia through strengthening links between higher education and employment and by the provision of concrete job opportunities. In addition, the Balkan Case Challenge contributes to an increased awareness about the potentials of South-Eastern Europe/the Balkans – being an integrative part of a joint Europe.

Eligibility Criteria for Students

The Balkan Case Challenge (BCC) is composed of the following four measures:

* Case Study Competitions
* Recruitment Events
* Alumni Network
* Accompanying measures at selected South-Eastern European universities

Why do we call it the Balkan Case Challenge?

After many and lengthy discussions with participants, jury members and other interested stakeholders in the BCC, we want to emphasize that we are very well aware of the fact that the notion “Balkan” stands for a geographical area that is not clearly defined. Wikepedia states that the countries of the Balkans combine “different countries whose common denominator is the fact that their territories of today were for centuries in the centre of a conflict within the powers of Austria, Russia and the Ottoman Empire” and adds further “that a more neutral terminology would be South-Eastern Europe”. read more

Eligibility Criteria for Students

BCC CountiresThe BCC is open for students who are enrolled at the universities and/or are citizens of: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

The BCC candidates need to be students in the fields of economics, law, political sciences (and related disciplines) and technical sciences from any state or private institution of higher education. They need to have excellent skills and an outstanding academic performance.

They need to be proficient users of the English language (see Level C1 according to the “Common European Framework of Reference” of the Council of Europe). Knowledge of German and of other foreign languages is an asset.

Students need to be under 28 years of age at the time of applying (for female applicants: the age limit is extended by 3 years per child) and have to complete their studies preferably within 1 year but within a maximum of 2 years from the moment of application.

Case Study Competitions

Excellent students from South-Eastern Europe and Austria are put to test in the following four academic disciplines at the BCC Case Study Competitions:

* Law Moot Court
* Business Case Competition
* Model European Council
* ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Case Competition

High Potentials at the verge of their studies in the fields of law, economy, social sciences and technology compete at the BCC Sub-Competitions on national level. The best 140 participants of the Sub-Competitions are invited to show their talent at the international BCC in Vienna. More information about Case Study Competitions.

Recruitment Events

The recruitment events are an integrative part of the BCC Case Study Competitions providing a unique occasion for national and international companies and organizations in South-Eastern Europe to meet with the participants of the BCC, i.e. potential future employees from this region.

Therefore the national recruitment events at the Sub-Competitions and the International Job Fair South-Eastern Europe in Vienna bring together outstanding students and companies with focus on South-Eastern Europe. More information about Recruitment Events.

Alumni Network

It is the aim of the BCC Alumni Network to serve as a forum where former participants can get in contact with other alumni for professional, academic or social purposes.

An additional objective of the network is to keep its members informed about all the BCC activities and to involve them in ongoing and future BCC events as participants, lecturers, tutors, consultants, jury members etc. It also supports the recruitment of the members.

More information about the Alumni Network.

Accompanying measures at selected South-Eastern European universities

The case study method – developed as a learning tool at Harvard University in order to promote its use as a modern, practice-oriented method of learning – has always played a crucial role at the Balkan Case Challenge. Additionally, career and job related trainings have become an important component at the Balkan Case Challenge for the last years in order to fill the gap between Higher Education and employment. Accompanying measures will be introduced at selected South-Eastern European universities.

Therefore, the introduction of the case study method will bring interesting, real-world situations into the classroom and allow the application of theoretical knowledge and bridge the gap between theory and practice. BCC thus aims at introducing the case study method and career and job related trainings at selected universities in South-Eastern Europe and also at supporting their sustainability beyond the competition itself. More information about accompanying measures at selected South-Eastern European universities at Linking Universities & Economy.

http://www.bcchallenge.org