Program Comparisons

What makes each program unique?


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Starting & Growing Your Business

  • Main Distinctive:

    start and grow a business
    moderate literacy

  • Program Length:

    20 sessions
    12 month program, including loan repayment

  • Target Students:
    Older teen girls or adult women
    May be abandoned, abused, rescued, aging out of orphanage
  • Suggested Student Education Level:
    Elementary education, basic literacy
  • Business Status:
    Does not have a small business or business plan
  • Savings:
    Portion of loan money is set aside to begin a savings account
  • HOPE Loans:
    Offered by HOPE and assumed in curriculum
    8 Pre-Qualification sessions required to apply
    Participants responsible for one another’s loan repayment
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Growing Your Business

  • Main Distinctive:

    grow an existing business
    low-level literacy

  • Program Length:

    16 sessions
    12 month program, including loan repayment

  • Target Students:
    Adult women
    May be hopeless, discouraged, lonely
  • Suggested Student Education Level:
    Illiterate or low-level literacy
  • Business Status:
    Has a small business started
  • Savings:
    Modest savings required
  • HOPE Loans:
    Offered by HOPE and assumed in curriculum
    4 Pre-Qualification sessions required to apply
    Participants responsible for one another’s loan repayment
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School Edition

  • Main Distinctive:
    secondary school classroom setting
    boys, girls, or a mixed group
  • Program Length:
    16 sessions
    can be divided or extended to fit a school term
  • Target Students:
    Older teen boys and girls
    Students transitioning from school to the workplace
  • Suggested Student Education Level:
    Elementary education, basic literacy
  • Business Status:
    Does not have a small business or business plan
  • Savings:
    NA
  • HOPE Loans:
    Not included

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