Oct 3, 2019
Listen in to hear Alexandra Salas, Bpeace Program Director share her stories of how identification and assessment happens in these Bpeace programs. And learn how you can get involved too.
When Bpeace was founded in 2002, its mission was to help grow businesses in countries impacted by violence. The idea was that the path to peace was lined with jobs. Helping to grow small to medium size businesses meant that these businesses could increase revenues, and grow jobs. In turn these jobs could lift employees, the lives of their families and the communities in which they live.
The Bpeace model unites high-quality and targeted consulting by volunteers, called “Skillanthropists” with promising local job creators, whom they call Fast Runners. Therefore the identification and selection of the Fast Runner participant organizations is critical. How does Bpeace identify and assess potential? How does Bpeace marry process and relationship evaluation in making the right choice? What factors differentiate companies that make the screening “cut?” And when those selected companies go through the program, how does Bpeace ensure what they define as “ROI” or return on involvement for both the member companies and the Skillanthropists? And although this work happens in places like El Salvador, Guatemala and Lebanon, the lessons resonate for all of us who identify and assess talent, whether that is for a job, a high-potential program or some other investment or opportunity.
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