Why we do our work

Why we do it!

CG International believes that entrepreneurship is a viable and sustainable development tool to foster poverty alleviation, gender and racial equity, the redistribution and creation of wealth, and economic empowerment opportunities.

Entrepreneurship is a worldwide, cross-cultural phenomenon. Our experience has taught us that, if given the tools to do better for themselves, their families, and their communities, people everywhere can and will use entrepreneurship to take control of their economic lives. As the members of a community grow stronger, so does the community itself. Entrepreneurship helps to develop leaders and doers - the essence of vibrant and prosperous communities.

At CG International we have seen and experienced the tangible successes that entrepreneurship can create in a person's life; and therefore, we are dedicated to assisting in this process in communities across the world. Entrepreneurship can be a powerful tool in helping people move towards economic self reliance and the ability to take control of their lives. Entrepreneurship is a step to empowerment

All of our programs are based on our Model for Entrepreneurship Development. This model starts with the person, their attitudes and characteristics. We believe that entrepreneurs build on their strengths and build teams or hire expertise in the areas in which they are not strong. We then add adaptive skills and then knowledge. This builds a good foundation of entrepreneurial qualities on which the entrepreneur can grow.

Our model is experiential and believes strongly in a Just Do It! methodology. Although this appears to abandon structure, it actually requires a strong, flexible structure of programming in order to allow the participants the freedom to try.

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