ImagineNations Group
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ImagineNations Group is a global alliance of social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, investors, financial institutions, global brands, media and organizations — all working together to empower and inspire a new generation of successful young adults in the developing world with opportunities, employment and livelihood.

ImagineNations Group is participating as a partner of the Obama Administration’s Global Entrepreneurship Program
Global Entrepreneurship Program
The Global Entrepreneurship Program is a new U.S. Government program focused on supporting and empowering entrepreneurs in Muslim communities around the world – and beyond. It will do this by marshalling partners, both U.S. and in-country, as well as multiple U.S...

 and E-Mentor Corps
E-Mentor Corps
E-Mentor Corps is a project of the US State Department that will allow entrepreneurs seeking advice to access mentors on-line. The E-Mentor Corps will call on business leaders and proven entrepreneurs in the United States and overseas to serve as E-Mentors to aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs...

, an initiative designed to provide concrete support to new and existing young entrepreneurs.

Mentoring and support

ImagineNations Group is a partnership-based global network that provides young entrepreneurs with the financial capital, technologies, and business/leadership coaching that young women and men need in order to start micro- and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets.

Board of directors

The managing director of ImagineNations Group is Alan H. Fleischmann. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Bank-ImagineNations Global Partnership for Youth Investment (GPYI). Besides himself, ImagineNations' other board directors include International Youth Foundation and ImagineNations Group founder Rick Little, Financial Times Chairman Sir David Bell
David Bell (publisher)
Sir David Charles Maurice Bell was Director for People at Pearson Group and was Chairman of the Financial Times until the end of 2009. He is married with three children.-Education:Sir David was educated at Worth School...

, author and former Smith College President Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975–1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

, Harvard University's Jane Nelson, and Former Finnish President and 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....

, among others.

Awards

ImagineNations Group was awarded the 2008 Goodwin Award for its work around the globe. The award was presented by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in Siena, Italy.

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