Generation Enterprise is a youth-led network of small business incubators and community hubs that equip street youth to leave life on the streets, start sustainable businesses, and create jobs.

Each site acts as an engine of economic development, integrating so-called "unemployable" young people into the formal economy as entrepreneurs, employers, and community leaders.

We are the Generation Enterprise leadership team, an all-volunteer group of young community leaders working on four continents to realize one revolutionary vision: that street youth in the world's biggest cities and most formidable slums can become socially responsible business owners and pull their communities out of poverty.

In 2009, we launched a pilot project in Lagos, the world's fastest-growing megacity. Our business training and incubation program, YouthBank, equipped homeless and unemployed youth to build viable, sustainable businesses that would allow them to leave gangs, prostitution, odd jobs, and criminal activity.

Now, we're working with partners in the public, private, and social sectors to create a network of incubators focused on drawing at-risk youth out of the shadows and into the formal economy.

Our goals?

Get youth off the streets, make smart investments in high-growth, youth-run businesses, and create employment n underdeveloped communities.

By day, we are Ivy League students and Rhodes Scholars, investment bankers and management consultants, project managers and strategists at organizations like the World Economic Forum, Microsoft, McKinsey, the Corporate Executive Board, Goldman Sachs, the Energy Ministry of Trinidad & Tobago, and Singapore Airlines.

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