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Our Model of Self-Sufficiency
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Interweave Solutions is an international nonprofit organization that specializes in self-reliance. Outstanding people around the world are able to change their lives through our Masters of Business in the Streets, Literacy and Success Ambassador Programs. They learn how to start or grow their own businesses and create plans to improve their homes and communities.
As of January 2024, we have over 76,000 graduates and 2,600 Success Ambassadors teaching our self-reliance curriculum around the world. We have established programs in over 75 countries and continue to grow as an organization.
We sincerely thank all our hardworking participants and success ambassadors, generous donors, dedicated staff, and wonderful volunteers. We couldn’t make this happen without each one of you.
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We move people from poverty to prosperity through neighborhood self-reliance groups.
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Master of Business in the Streets
Total MBS Graduates:
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benefits of the
Master of Business in the Streets Products
Knowledge:
Start and grow your own business.
Develop a personal improvement plan.
Create a community service plan.
Networking:
Join a Facebook group for MBS graduates. (learn and connect with successful micro-business owners around the world).
Opportunity
Take the Success Ambassador course at no extra charge.
Become a Success Ambassador.
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What is the master of business in the streets (MBS) program?
The Master of Business on the Street (MBS) Program is a business training/self-confidence program that enables participants to start and grow their own businesses, improve their family life, and enhance their community. Participants can take the course with a group, under the direction of a local Success Ambassador, or online through our online learning management system. The program has a total of 15 units (13 online). Each of these units teaches participants the elements of the 6 Ps of business ( Plan, Product, Process, Price, Promotion, Procedures ) to help their businesses grow and succeed. Other requirements include creating a quality of life plan and completing a community service project.
If you choose to take the course online, you will be assigned a Success Ambassador Mentor who will support you throughout the course by providing feedback, assisting you with projects, and answering any questions or concerns you may have via email, Facebook, or WhatsApp.
What are the expected outcomes
After completing the course and submitting the corresponding requirements, participants will receive an official MBS certificate, distinguishing them as professional and trained entrepreneurs. If, after completing the course, they decide not to start their own business, the certificate will serve as verification to future employers that the MBS graduate has received professional business training for the informal economy. The MBS certificate is also a prerequisite for becoming a Success Ambassador. We encourage all MBS course completers to become Success Ambassadors. There are tremendous benefits that can be found by learning more by clicking here.
Whats is the details and cost of the course?
The cost of the course will vary depending on the location where the course is held and whether it is conducted online or in person. Payments are made between the participant and their Success Ambassador. We advise all participants not to make any payments to an Ambassador unless they are listed as an authorized Interweave Solutions partner at the bottom of our Success Ambassadors page . Success Ambassadors may offer generous course discounts and, in very special circumstances, provide scholarships for participants who are in great financial need. However, we encourage all participants to invest an amount they can reasonably afford in the program and to “put their skin in the game.” Doing so will create a greater sense of commitment to the program and greater enjoyment in the positive outcomes that are sure to follow.
Will the master of business in the streets get me a job?
Many of our MBS graduates have their own businesses. Take a look at the many types of companies that have taken our course and seen the impact it has had on their businesses.
Many of our MBS graduates have businesses of there own. Click on the button below to view the many types of businesses that have gone through our course and to find how much the MBS course impacted their business.
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Success Ambassadors Worldwide
Total SUCCESS AMBASSADORS:
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benefits of the
Success Ambassador Certification
Authorized to:
Print, use and sell Interweave Solutions material teach the MBS course.
Have your name on the Interweave Solutions website.
Receive a letter of authorization to teach the MBS.
Support/Networking:
Access to Interweave Solutions MBS marketing materials
Coaching from your Language Director
Attend regular zoom trainings and annual conference
Join a Success Ambassador WhatsApp group
Financial Help
Eligible to receive Growth and Incentive Grants
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What is a success ambassador?
As a success ambassador, can I earn money?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
How are Success Ambassadors certified?
Wellness and Emotional Self-Reliance
Counseling in the Streets
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Success Ambassador Certification
At different times we all feel sad or alone. The number of individuals who suffer from mental health issues is growing world-wide. Mental health professionals do what they can but there are several difficulties for struggling individuals to get the help they need — a lack of services, costs, and even finding a counselor they trust.
Counseling in the Streets (CIS) provides a viable, sustainable option that can help those who suffer with mental health issues. CIS is also for those who would like to help and support those family members and friends who struggle, and anyone who would like to become more emotionally self-reliant.
Community wellness groups, led by local facilitators yields amazing results. While mental health professionals are doing the best they can, they are limited in numbers. However, by training local individuals in basic counseling techniques, providing them with a wellness program guide, and helping them organize and run community wellness groups, more people can be reached while at the same time developing supportive connections with others in their own communities.
Members of these wellness groups serve as “peer counselors” for each other. As group members reach out to and help those in their wellness groups, they in-turn help themselves in their own struggles.
With user-friendly, participatory materials, training and consultation, Counseling in the Streets empowers local neighborhood-level leaders to become group facilitators and peer counselors. Through this innovative approach, CIS enables individuals, families and partner organizations to provide self-directed, interactive and highly-effective therapeutic and emotional support for anyone who may be experiencing mental health or emotional struggles.
Community wellness groups,
Led by local facilitators yields amazing results. While mental health professionals are doing the best they can, they are limited in numbers. However, by training local individuals in basic counseling techniques, providing them with a wellness program guide, and helping them organize and run community wellness groups, more people can be reached while at the same time developing supportive connections with others in their own communities.
Members of these wellness groups serve as “peer counselors” for each other. As group members reach out to and help those in their wellness groups, they in-turn help themselves in their own struggles.
With user-friendly, participatory materials, training and consultation, Counseling in the Streets empowers local neighborhood-level leaders to become group facilitators and peer counselors. Through this innovative approach, CIS enables individuals, families and partner organizations to provide self-directed, interactive and highly-effective therapeutic and emotional support for anyone who may be experiencing mental health or emotional struggles.
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Interweave’s Counseling in the Streets program.
What is a success ambassador?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
As a success ambassador, can I earn money?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
Interweave’s CIS “Certified Wellness Facilitators” course.
Is the Cis wellness facilitator course accredited?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
How long does it take to complete the course
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
Will there be any in-person requirements (i.e not on-line) with this course?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
Are those who complete the course considered "professional counselors"?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
Can i work or volunteer after taking the course?
Web development refers to the work involved in building and developing a site for the web. The scope of work depends on the size of the website being built, and can be as simple as a landing page or as complex.
Business Literacy & ESL
INTERWEAVE BUSINESS-LITERACY PROGRAM
Each year Interweave programs move thousands of people from poverty to prosperity. Using the simple MBS – Masters of Business in the Streets approach, participants work with their neighbors to start and grow their own businesses, strengthen their families and improve their communities.
Unfortunately, those who need this program the most are often unable to participate because they lack basic literacy skills – including listening, speaking, reading and writing. Worldwide, there are more than 800 million adults who cannot read and write and even more who cannot communicate in the dominant language needed to do business or attend school. These individuals who lack language proficiency tend to be among the poorest of the poor.
In response to this compelling need, Interweave has developed an innovative business literacy alternative so that all participants can become self-reliant. This simple option enables participants to bridge the gap between low literacy and business success.
Through two interrelated manuals – ABC’s of Business and English for Business Success– participants master business-focused literacy sufficient to participate in Interweave’s MBS program. The starting-level manual – ABC’s of Business – introduces letters, sounds, words, sentences, and paragraphs related to business and self-reliance. Participants discuss stories about business concepts through a range of beginning and advanced reading and writing activities.
The second-level manual – English for Business Success – emphasizes business-related listening and speaking skills. Participants improve their ability to understand and converse through stories that teach business basics. Both manuals introduce the 6P’s of Business and literacy skills needed to participate fully in Interweave’s Success in Business materials. In this way, non-readers become leaders in Interweave MBS self-reliance groups:
- Single mothers who need English to do business in Gulu, Uganda worked together to learn the vocabulary and principles of the 6P’s of Business. With new skills, they are now completing Interweave’s Success in Business program.
- Parents in Guyana who couldn’t master a self-reliance course used Interweave literacy materials to prepare to succeed in business training.
Non-English speaking refugees in Salt Lake City learned Business English to participate in the Interweave MBS course.
In Mexico, native dialect Tzotzil speakers are learning how to read and write in Spanish in order to become more marketable in their local community.
In addition to English, Interweave business literacy materials have been successfully adapted into Haitian Creole. Similar adaptations are being developed in Spanish and local African dialects.
Interweave can help your organization – whether it be an NGO, refugee program, school, church or government agency – to adopt these innovative literacy tools to help your members and clients succeed in business.