{"id":12425,"date":"2019-09-02T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2019-09-28T04:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T04:12:19","slug":"2019-09-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-09-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Saharan Humanist Entrepreneur Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Hank Pellissier<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., September 22, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brighter Brains Institute, a SF Bay nonprofit (<a href=\"https:\/\/Humanists.Global\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/Humanists.Global<\/a>) has promoted humanism in Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, and Tanzania for 5 years. It built 4 schools and 2 orphanages, but it eventually decided the best way to provide help is offering $300 startup grants to humanist entrepreneurs &#8211; mostly in Nigeria. It has delivered funds for 81 of these small projects, in both rural and small industry enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Pellissier&#8217;s talk will discuss the failures of our other philanthropic methods, the hazards of our present strategy, and our future goals.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Pellissier is founder\/program director\/CFO of the Brighter Brains Institute. This is his third presentation to Silicon Valley Humanists. He&#8217;s very happy to be coming back.<\/p>\n<p>After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/362928612\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/362928612\">Sub-Saharan Humanist Entrepreneur Fund &#8211; Hank Pellissier<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/264502177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> If you would like to speak at a Forum, or know of someone who you think might be willing to speak at a Forum, please send an email about your idea to the <a href=\"mailto:hc-program@googlegroups.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">HCSV Program Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Pellissier 11 a.m., September 22, 2019 The Brighter Brains Institute, a SF Bay nonprofit (https:\/\/Humanists.Global) has promoted humanism in Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, and Tanzania for 5 years. It built 4 schools and 2 orphanages, but it eventually decided the best way to provide help is offering $300 startup grants to humanist entrepreneurs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-09-22\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sub-Saharan Humanist Entrepreneur Fund&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12445,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/12445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}