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Select photos courtesy of Donato "Danny" Pietrodangelo.
CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 2008 ACTION REPORT
NGO STRENGTHENING
CCF granted $10,000 to the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas (FAVACA) www.favaca.org, to develop training material and pilot an Institutional Strengthening Program for the Non-Profit Sector in Barbados. This award was made possible by a gift from the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University www.nsulaw.nova.edu. Thirty-seven participants attended the event at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort August 6-8, 2008. The training was jointly hosted by the Barbados Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (BANGO). Representative of the feedback on the workshops was this: Finally, let me commend FAVACA and the team for fitting the bill as we had set out and allowing us the input through teleconference and e-mails. I can’t say anything more than that we are very happy and satisfied at the work done by FAVACA.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
CCF has partnered with The Young Americas Business Trust (YABT), www.ybiz.net, in launching a Caribbean component (TIC – Caribbean) of YABT’s Talent and Innovation Competition of the Americas – (TIC Americas). YABT is a nonprofit corporation working with the General Secretariat of the Organization of the American States (OAS). TIC Americas is an international young entrepreneur competition that goes beyond traditional business plan competitions to establish an on-going process of young entrepreneur development, incorporating training, mentoring, and product testing to accelerate the development of innovative young entrepreneurs.
Unfortunately, owing to the small size of the communities and the general difficulties faced by young entrepreneurs in networking, the number of teams from the Caribbean has lagged behind other countries and regions. A CCF $3,000 grant seeks to mitigate this situation by recognizing a winning team from the Caribbean countries served by CCF and sponsoring their representation at the TIC Americas 2009 Conference in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
