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behind this product is an economic opportunity for low-income immigrant and refugee women through teaching English, communications and entrepreneurship skills, so they can establish successful livelihoods.
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The history of our organization
As a young girl, Farhana Huq was always stricken by the incredible degree of poverty she witnessed when visiting Bangladesh, her father's birth country. In college, she learned of Muhammed Yunus' work with the Grameen Bank and how this revolution in capitalism lifted poor women out of poverty into self-sufficiency. Moreover, seeing the struggles of women in her own family to make ends meet while grappling with social welfare systems and single parenthood inspired Farhana to create systems for social change.
After several years of studying, researching and working with women facing incredible financial and social obstacles, Farhana began to envision a place where women could be nurtured and supported to fulfill their life dreams. In 2000, she founded C.E.O. Women, offering programs that increase the economic self-sufficiency of clients and foster the integration of immigrant and refugee women into society through expanding their social and business networks.
Our organization's standards for producers, products, or sellers
Standards for sellers: All sellers have graduated from C.E.O. Women's Are You Ready For Business and Starting a Small Business classes. Through this 16-week training program, sellers learn business administration, communications, and English language skills. A certified Vocational English as a Second Language instructor delivers C.E.O. Women's award-winning curricula. Sellers have completed a business plan portfolio, and have demonstrated exceptional initiative, integrity, and professionalism. C.E.O. Women is familiar with the products that sellers offer, and conducts three customer reference checks for each seller.
How we developed our standards
These standards were developed with the collaboration of C.E.O. Women's staff, technical assistance providers and alumnae. Standards were developed in accordance with C.E.O. Women's hands-on experience working to help immigrant and refugee women with limited resources to launch early stage enterprises.
Summary of our process for screening new producers, products, or sellers
Only graduates of our Starting a Small Business program are eligible to become sellers. Sellers have completed a minimum of 50 training hours encompassing business administration, communications, and ESL training through a certified Vocational English as a Second Language instructor, have completed a business plan portfolio, and have demonstrated exceptional initiative, integrity, and professionalism. C.E.O. Women is familiar with the products that sellers offer, and conducts three customer reference checks for each seller.
How we regularly monitor compliance of our standards
Our organization does not directly monitor compliance at this time.
Our monitoring process including who performs the monitoring
Our organization does not directly monitor compliance at this time.
The fee structure for our monitoring system
Our organization does not have a fee structure or monitoring system at this time.
Monitored regions
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