Support Believe Begin Become, a business plan competition run by TechnoServe, a nonprofit international development organization.

For more information on the entrepreneurs in the videos please contact youtube@tns.org. You can use the Google Checkout button below to make your contribution to this critical program, and join with us in providing the tools, training and information that will empower men and women in the developing world to turn their ideas into thriving businesses.

Believe Begin Become - currently being run in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania - is designed to give enterprising men and women the training and resources they need to launch or expand businesses, while fostering a broader culture of entrepreneurship within a country.

Believe Begin Become is based on a similar program in Latin America, where TechnoServe currently runs business plan competitions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile and Ecuador.

TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in the developing world to build businesses that provide jobs, income and economic opportunity. Since its founding in 1968, the U.S.-based nonprofit has helped to create or expand more than 2,000 businesses, benefiting millions of people in more than 30 countries. TechnoServe has been recognized as one of the world's "Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs" by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2007, Charity Navigator also once again awarded its highest Four Star ranking to TechnoServe.