“Mom Central Consulting” – educational project to develop women’s entrepreneurship
There are a lot of unemployed women in the world. 98% of women dream of starting their own business during and after maternity, but they face barriers:
- lack of start-up capital
- lack of knowledge
- lack of business competence
- lack of faith in themselves
- lack of understanding of how to combine motherhood and business
With us YOU:
Keep up to date with all the project’s events
Exchange ideas and experiences with participants.
Overcome all the barriers to starting your own business.
Participate in the business plan contest
Win and receive a grant to start your own business
Project Mission
To provide women with necessary competences and knowledge to start their own business, to develop social sphere, to increase small business share in GDP structure, to decrease unemployment level in the world
Project goal
To activate their potential for the development of the economy of the country, to motivate women and to facilitate removal of the barriers to starting their own business.
Project format
Education in the project is conducted in the form of full-time training (intensive) on the basics of entrepreneurship and effective business management. It is conducted by experienced business-trainers and representatives of regional structures for small business support. The duration of the training is 40 hours (5 days)
Business plan contest and grant support
An important part of the “Mom Central Consulting” project is a competition of business plans prepared by course attendees as final papers. The winner of the contest in each region, according to the terms of the project, receives a grant to implement her business idea or the equivalent of a business service package to help her start her business.
The authors of the projects that have made it to the final defended their business plans before an independent jury of experts composed of representatives of organizers, profile and financial departments and structures, business associations and mass media. In its assessment the jury is guided by the criteria of project feasibility, validity of preliminary profit calculations, originality and social significance of the business idea. According to the terms of the grant, the business idea must be implemented within the next calendar year, and the grantor (Charity Foundation “In Charge of the Future”) controls the targeted expenditure of funds.