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YOuR gIFT
Your compassion and vision – shared and strengthened with other philanthropists – will change lives in the most fundamental, profound, incalculable ways. Your gi to entrepreneurs in the communities of developing nations transforms lives and futures, from bleak to hopeful. rough micro business philanthropy, you give the gi of personal power, allowing entrepreneurs to take control of their lives and their destinies.
Royal Roads University and the Eric C. Douglass Centre are proud of our business students:
they share your vision and make it a reality by going to these communities, teaching and learning at the same time.
KEEPING THE GIFT OF POWER AND VISION OF HOPE ALIVE
e Centre is seeking a lifelong endowment that will touch and change countless lives in countless ways. Speci cally, this is the way the Eric C. Douglass Centre will administer the endowment.
YEAR ONE/ RESEARCH AND FRAmEWORK
e Micro Business Ideas Competition generates appropriate ideas for three new business projects in the community or region that you select.
Ideas that are viable on paper will then be vetted in the very community they are meant to serve.
Partnerships and contacts will be made with that community’s local organizations and other requisite stakeholders.