Last October, we helped amplify the impact of 20 young female entrepreneurs from Jordan and the U.S. through our Fellowship for Young Women Entrepreneurs. The program encompassed entrepreneurial training, mentoring, and a pitch competition with more than $150,000 in prizes. Six months later, our fellows have gone on to scale their businesses, launch or iterate new […]
Open Hands Initiative is proud to have partnered with a diverse group of entities in Amman, Jordan for its Fellowship for Young Women Entrepreneurs, a startup bootcamp program for 20 female founders from the U.S. and Jordan, which took place from October 16-24th.
On October 24th in Amman, Jordan, our 20 young women entrepreneurs who participated in the Fellowship pitched to a panel of judges at Zain’s Innovation Campus at the King Hussein Business Park. From that group of startup founders, just a handful would be chosen to win cash prizes to help grow their businesses. Later that […]
Open Hands Initiative is proud of all the women entrepreneurs who pitched their ideas at a Demo Day hosted by Zain at their Zinc Innovation Campus on October 24. The day featured concise pitches from outstanding American and Jordanian women entrepreneurs who had just undergone a week-long bootcamp course on entrepreneurship. After hearing from experts on […]
Open Hands Initiative is proud to announce that we have just returned from a fact-finding mission to a diverse and fascinating country located at the heart of the Middle East: Jordan. This special destination is where we will be hosting our next exchange program. It’s one of the MENA region’s most prominent hubs for start-ups […]