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Latest News | February 2026
Sewing Machines for Women ACE has been able to give 600 sewing machines to women who have been trained by our staff. This empowers these women to have an at home business, sewing for clients from their homes so they can continue to be at home with their children....
COVID-19 response in India
ACE is supporting India during the COVID-19 pandemic in partnerhisp with local organisation, as the nation reaches over 13,000 confirmed cases. This partnership has come due to the quick lockdown in India that has been extended indefinitely. Millions of daily wage...
Rose Streeshakti Snacks Center
Joy and Rose successful pioneers of a pre-school for economically disadvantaged people in Lonavala, India have also pioneered a small business with the aim to empower women through their snack center. They pitched for start-up funding at our Vancouver event but later...
Extending Hope School
Entrepreneurs and Social activist Decent and Nadia in Malawi set up this school as a lean startup to provide quality education for children in their city. Following our Vancouver BAM event, the school will use the loan they received to add classrooms and scale up from...
Bella Pizzeria
Alex from the Bella Pizzeria, in Central Asia, pitched for scale-up funds at our Eagles Nest (Shark Tank like) event in Vancouver but lost out to the Extending Hope School. As he continued to work through issues in his business plan with his ACE coach, we were able to...
Chicken Farming – Satara, India
About a year ago we were able to connect a retired business leader who had built up a large Chicken and Processing Plant, to participate in advising us on starting a 5000 chicken farm in a poor district of India. We are on our third batch of 5000 chickens and it has...
Vancouver Business Event | Update
Three entrepreneurs from India, Africa, and Central Asia presented their pitch to our panel of donor-investors at our Eagles nest (shark tank like event) and the winner was Decent who received $13000 to scale up his school in Malawi. There were no losers as the Snack...
Women Arise Workshop
The Women Arise workshop to train up small business entrepreneurs mostly in jewelry making was launched in New Delhi, India with a view to scale up to an e-business platform for social entrepreneurs working with ACE in different capacities. The startup aims at...
Capacity Building
Training, coaching and follow up coaching continue to be a strong focus of ACE, using a variety of approaches from 2-day seminars to 3-month residential schools. In 2018, we held 6 different 1 to 5-day workshops with 28 students in India and 137 in Papua New Guinea....
Webinars
WEBINAR December 6, 2017 2:30 - 3:45 PM PST An Entrepreneurs Story Behind the scenes of the Global story of Change Dave & Tasha Dave is CEO and co-founder with his wife Tasha, of Village Artisan.They are lovers of Jesus, adventure, and those who have never...