Partnership in Enterprise - Enterprise Volunteering

Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger launched the inaugural Global Enterpreneurship Week in California. He calls it "a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit that is so strong".

Elle McPherson is a supporter of Global Entrepreneurship Week and making business mean something. She says "When I feel good about myself, when I feel centred, I’m more capable in business."

USA President Barack Obama
"The next great social innovation won’t be generated by the government."

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
"Entrepreneurial spirit changes the world and it changes it for good."

Sir Richard Branson
"It is possible to turn a profit while making the world a better place."

Latest news

The Prince’s Trust backed drug-dealer-turned-entrepreneur Duane Jackson, 30, has launched his own search for ‘The Fresh Prince’ in collaboration with the Partnership in Enterprise programme. Jackson, whose web-based accountancy software business, Kashflow, received a start-up loan, grant and mentoring from The Prince’s Trust is now valued at up to Â£10 million. It is regarded as [...]

The world’s largest speed-networking event will be held during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2009. Online dating millionaire Ross Williams, Chairman and Founder of Global Personals, on collaboration with Partnership in Enterprise, is creating the world’s largest speed networking event for Global Entrepreneurship Week this year, with young entrepreneurs from over 77 countries linked up [...]

The newly appointed Judge of Partnership in Enterprise’s competition is the Sunday Times Corporate Entrepreneurship Challenge Judge and Founder of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts, Nick Wheeler. Wheeler is leading a delegation to Ghana to visit some new enterprises in October 2009 in advance of Global Entrepreneurship Week in November. “Promoting enterprise to the third world is [...]

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." – Lao Tzu