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SheVentures provides her with $3,000 to purchase the first inventory of used books from her fellow students. From SheVentures' volunteer advisors network, she identifies and engages a team of volunteer advisors, including a local bookstore owner, an accountant, and a law professor. SheVentures program officers assist her in developing her plan and budget as well as materials to help other law students replicate a similar program at their schools. She feels proud to have found a way to help herself and other low-income students manage the high costs of attending law school. She also donates a percentage of her profits to a free community legal clinic. A 30-year-old young woman feels frustrated at the increase in gang participation by teen girls in her community. As a former teen gang member who has watched several of her friends killed in shootings, she wants to help mentor girls to discourage them from joining gangs. She works as a graphic designer and decides to create a nonprofit business called G.A.N.G. (Graphic Arts Not Guns), which hires such at-risk teen girls to create graphic art for business cards, flyers, and posters for local businesses. SheVentures provides her with $5,000 to purchase computers and business equipment for the business and connects her to local companies donating office furniture. From SheVentures' volunteer advisors network, she identifies and engages a team of volunteer advisors, including several local businesswomen, girls' advocates, graphic artists, a marketing associate and an attorney. SheVentures program officers assist her in developing her business plan and financials so that she can apply for a small business loan. She feels empowered and proud to have provided job opportunities to these teen girls and a positive alternative to the violence of gang life. G.A.N.G employs ten new teen girls each year and incorporates a mentoring program matching the girls with former gang members who have built positive and successful lives. An 18-year-old young woman, who recently ...