From Consortium lead The Center for International Private Enterprise
Osman Cakiroglu, Project Director of the LIFE Project, joins host Ken Jaques to discuss the new ways the program is helping local entrepreneurs in Turkey impacted by the global pandemic. They also discuss the upcoming CIPE event with the consortium partners (register here) and the exciting launch of the LIFE Project Cookbook that is now available for purchase. All proceeds of the cookbook will go towards the LIFE Project.
From Consortium lead The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
We celebrate Democracy That Deliver’s 200th podcast with a special episode just in time for Giving Tuesday 2020. We are joined by CIPE’s Marie Principe and the Stimson Center’s Johanna Mendelson-Forman for a behind the scenes look at CIPE’s very first cookbook “The Cuisine of LIFE” – now available for purchase online.
From Consortium lead The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
In this episode, Barbara Langley, Director of CIPE’s Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment, and Marie Principe, Program Officer for MENA, recount stories of impact from the LIFE Project. They discuss how through the LIFE Project, the members, particularly the women, build confidence in public speaking and advocating for their product and themselves, and how they also build a sense of community with other women from different backgrounds.
From Consortium Lead The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Joan Nathan, Cookbook Author and Advisory Council member of LIFE Project, and Johanna Mendelson Forman, PhD, Distinguished Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center and CIPE’s Consortium partner on the LIFE Project, join co-host Stephen Rosenlund and host Ken Jaques to discuss how the LIFE Food Enterprise Center (FEC) is building food businesses and creating sustainable livelihoods in Turkey. These efforts have transformative effects for refugees and their host communities by building relationships through food.
From Consortium Lead The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
In this episode of Democracy that Delivers, Marie Principe, CIPE Program Officer for MENA and head of the Livelihood Innovations through Food Entrepreneurship (LIFE) Project, is joined by Andrew Varnum, Executive Vice President of DC-based food accelerator Union Kitchen, as LIFE celebrates its one-year anniversary. The LIFE Project in Turkey supports sustainable livelihoods in the food sector through an entrepreneurship incubation experience and workforce training program for refugees and the host communities.
