Building a business while juggling academics and life is no easy task – but there are Babson College entrepreneurs who are doing it. For them, there is the Butler Launch Pad‘s Fast Track Cohort. The 2018-2019 cohort, a group of undergraduate and graduate student and alumni entrepreneurs, met weekly through the academic year to get feedback, support each […]
Babson College Announces B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge Semifinalists
Newswise — Babson College’s B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge Semifinalist Round takes place at the Venture Expo on April 3, 2019 at Babson’s Wellesley Campus in Olin Hall beginning at 4:30 p.m. Presented by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, the B.E.T.A.Challenge recognizes major milestones Babson businesses have achieved by taking action. Winners of the graduate, […]
World Bank: Winners of MbelenaBiz Business Plan Competition
Jiwo Paro has been selected as one of the awardees of the MbelenaBiz Business Plan competition, being awarded KES 900,000. This investment, a project of The World Bank, is implemented by The Government of Kenya, KPMG under the Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities window MbeleNaBiz Competition winners to pocket Kshs. 1.3B as grants – KBC […]
World Connect invests in Jiwo Paro
Jiwo Paro has collaborated with World Connect to start a project named Ahadi ‘Promise’ in Oseng’eti village, Chemelil, Muhoroni Sub County in Kisumu.
Acumen: Hometown Heroes – Changing the Odds
+Acumen course taker Akinyi Awora is the co-founder and COO of Jiwo Paro, a community-based organization in Kisumu, Kenya focused on equipping women with access to capital, education, and entrepreneurial opportunities as well as the skills they need to manage their finances. What inspired Akinyi to leave her high-powered job in London and return to […]