Sustainable Business Ventures is a series of entrepreneurship learning resources for grades 2-12. Each of the modules provides all the materials required to facilitate and learn about entrepreneurship and business that is not only sustainable economically, but also sustainable environmentally.
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The Marketplace Simulation is the first module of Master Plan, a "game" that allows participants to act as entrepreneurs and compete with each other to succeed in business. The debates get intense, decisions get weightier and the results provoke emotions of success and failure and discussions of different ways to succeed.
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Assists growers and farmers to run successful Agri-businesses by having participant teams run simulated businesses. The Agriplanner Simulation runs at progressive levels starting simply and building to planning and running a complex Agri-business at the higher levels.
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For small business trainers, banks, and RFIs, Master Plan guides participants through a series of five modules that will address business planning, assessment, financing, and competition. Participants have the opportunity to play the part of the entrepreneur as well as that of a loan assessor, and to generate ideas about what the ideal business is for them as an individual entrepreneur. The modules may be used together or separately.
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1-2 day simulation provided for the formation of Savings Groups (also known as Accumulated Savings and Credit Associations, Self-Help Groups, cajas rurales, etc), in which members save their own money and pool it within the group. The money is then lent out to the members to start up or expand micro businesses.
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