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Making Cents International is committed to creating a legacy of improved skills and economic opportunities at the individual, community and global levels. We are a specialized consulting and training firm based in Washington, D.C. that equips youth and adults with the vision, confidence, and skills to create and grow their own businesses.

Making Cents is also a leader in building the youth microenterprise sector. Through the organization of learning opportunities and networks, Making Cents inspires youth, practitioners, policy makers, and funders to more effectively share and develop partnerships, programs and policies that support youth entrepreneurs.

Since its founding in 1999, Making Cents has provided technical assistance to over 4,000 business service providers in 43 countries to reinforce their capacity to offer quality and targeted services to youth and adults.
Making Cents International embarks on the three-year Youth-Inclusive Financial Services Program (YFS-Link) in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation

YFS-Link is an ambitious three-year knowledge-management and global capacity building and training initiative which aims to support the greater provision of appropriate financial services to young people.

Click here to find out more about YFS-Link and ways you can get involved!.

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New Course Offering!

Youth-Inclusive Financial Services: Implementing Good Practices in the Field
June 18-20, 2009
Microenterprise Development Institute:
Southern New Hampshire University(MDI-SNHU)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Click here for more information about this course or to register.

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New Publication Announcement

Making Cents is pleased to announce the release of the following new publication: State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods Development.
Market-Driven Approaches; Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment; and Youth-Inclusive Financial Services

To download a copy, please click here.
To order a hard copy, please click here.

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Conference Announcement

Making Cents International is pleased to announce that its
3rd Annual Global Youth Enterprise Conference will take place in Washington, DC September 29-30, 2009 at the Cafritz Conference Center. For more information, please click here.
Conference Program Now Posted! Click here for more information.

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Making Cents Presents at the SEEP Annual Conference
Making Cents presented Youth Enterprise & Youth Financial Services: Key Considerations and New Understandings - sharing with practitioners the lessons learned from the Youth Financial Services: Emerging Good Practices course conducted by Making Cents in September.

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Global Youth Enterprise Conference. The Global Youth Enterprise Conference, held from September 15 - 16, in Washington, DC, was attended by more than 350 people from 50 countries. For more information on this successful event: www.youthenterpriseconference.org.

Updated 05/18/2009

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