The Tupperware Brands Global Links program trains and mentors local women in India and Iraq in social entrepreneurship, with the goal of improving the skills and resourcefulness of those country’s female entrepreneurs. Now the company wants to expand its global program to support female entrepreneurs in developing countries and Brazil is the next step.
The entrepreneurship program is a 6-9 month period of intensive business education that and is held at Rollins College. This is followed by an externship at Tupperware Brands. The high achieving scholars accepted into the cross-cultural exchange program then return to their universities to integrate their acquired business education into the curriculum.
The U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues and Florida-based Rollins College are partners in supporting the program that began with an inaugural class of 25 students in Iraq in 2012. Then joining with Women for Women International, the program mentored women through centers in Karbala and Baghdad. In 2014 the Global Links program partnered with Bandhan Bank to expand into India.
“For more than 70 years, we have been igniting global communities, especially women, to realize their best selves. The Global Links program is an extension of this much-needed effort,” said the Tupperware Brands Executive Chairman, Rick Goings. “In many parts of the world women are the most underutilized resource, and we are committed to engaging like-minded advocates to inspire the development of a new generation of female entrepreneurs in Brazil. Advancing women will fuel and uplift society as a whole.”
In order for the most recent expansion to proceed, the program is seeking a motivated professor willing to provide ongoing mentorship in a hands-on environment to build business fundamentals in Brazil.
The deadline for professor applications is September 14th, 2018, and the program begins in February 2019 and lasts until July 2019.
