Street Business School

Street Business School (SBS) helps women living in poverty to gain knowledge and confidence, start small businesses, double their incomes and lift their families out of poverty. We have engaged in this work since 2008 by delivering an award-winning entrepreneurship training curriculum directly to women. In 2016 we started scaling through a social franchise model where we train other NGOs to deliver the SBS program in their local communities, allowing them to amplify their own impact.

SBS currently has more than 400 certified Lead Coaches from 165+ partner NGOs working in 26 countries. We focus on impact and creating measurable change:

• SBS graduates have gone from living on $1.35 a day on average, to $4.19 a day two years later
• 89% of SBS graduates have at least one business two years after they graduate