The Sirolli Institute exists to facilitate entrepreneurship. It believes in harnessing the dreams and drive of local entrepreneurs NOT by telling the locals what some big wig in Washington DC thinks they OUGHT to do, but by listeing to the local people.
By listening, Sirolli turned one man from being long term unemployed to running a business with 12 people that smoked tuna fish. Cost $4,000 (Australian).
This in turn got them thinking about new markets for local tuna. By value adding they went from earning 60 cents per kilo to $15 per kilo!
Whenever Sirolli’s institute goes some place and LISTENS to the local people, jobs are created for pennies on the dollar… and the “economic development” crowd whose idea of building the economy is bribing big business while you pay the taxes for them are just left shaking their heads.
Sirrolli’s methods aren’t always good for the big photo ops… they may be a little too sustainable and leave people questioning why they need politicians at all…. that’s why the institute’s services are offered on a fee for service basis.
For $50,000 + the local facilitator’s salary, a community receives 3 years of apprenticeship training so they can sustain the work on their own.
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