B’ginnings is growing entrepreneurs in developing countries, helping to remove them from the poverty cycle & encouraging them to inspire a new generation of can-doers to trade their own way into prosperity!
An old Chinese proverb says teach a man to fish and you feed him for life
B’ginnings is a private social venture network helping the world’s poorest regions to become economically independent by leveraging the power of the business world.
The network was founded in 2011 by two Australian businesspeople, Mark Phillips and Graham Perry, with the help of a number of socially conscious successful business executives.
Having enjoyed success in the western business world as
corporate executives and entrepreneurs Mark & Graham decided it
was time to get serious about ‘giving something back’ to the
world. Not just handing out a cash donation and hoping it goes
to somewhere good. Not just volunteering on a local committee or
to build a school building. But doing something significant.
Something that will create long lasting value.
So they have focused on helping rid the world of poverty in a
very direct way. By identifying and then helping those in the
developing world that stand the best chance of making a
significant positive contribution to business in their region -
future entrepreneurs.
These are people who can learn to feed themselves, their
families, their employees and inspire their business communities
for long term gain.
Without entrepreneurs it’s hard to generate and then sustain
growth, employment or wealth. It stands to reason that the
better the entrepreneurs, the better a region’s future
prosperity.
The world over, people are learning how to improve themselves
and stand out from the crowd. It is almost a religion in the
west for up and coming business executives to network with more
successful, better connected and higher skilled business people.
Unfortunately in developing countries there isn’t a latent
supply of successful business leaders to learn from or model
business skills against. So
B’ginnings is helping bridge that
gap by channeling superior business expertise from the
Developed to the Developing World to create a new generation of
skilled wealth creators.
