Dear BPN friends
With perseverance and patience, we overcame the years of the pandemic. In 2022, we were able to focus on our work again. We realized that the world had changed during the years of the pandemic. But our mission has remained the same everywhere: To train and develop people, to support them in their entrepreneurial development and to promote free and independent thinking.
In our work, we have experienced that the people in our areas of activity are still very grateful for our presence and our work. Increasingly, we can also see that our work is bringing about lasting change. We are very proud of the fact that we now have several entrepreneurs in our ranks, particularly in Kyrgyzstan and Rwanda, who are able to achieve above-average growth by tapping into international markets and thus create jobs. But we are also proud when we look at Mongolia and see how things are developing on a small scale. Every change serves as a model for other people to emulate.
Cordially,
Martin Wipfli
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
BPN has been investing in people, their ideas and projects for over two decades. Year after year, this trusting support unfolds manifold human and entrepreneurial potential on 3 continents.
In a business context, finances and professionalism are a basic prerequisite for business progress. However, truly unique value creation is based on a special attitude of the heart. It is about "relationship temperature", recognition, the struggle for understanding, the cultivation and expansion of talents and connections, growing trust - all these matters of the heart create the special breakthroughs!
BPN's "Impact Report" for the years 2019-2021 illustrates our funding practices, shows our diverse activities and makes our actions transparent with figures and graphics. We can confidently disseminate the achievements it reveals - knowing that the key factors in BPN's impressive development are rooted in the congruent values and principles of all those involved and in their joy, as well as in our diligence in our actions and in a caring attitude in our daily work. We appreciate your support and your encouragement for the work of the BPN Foundation. In doing so, you are helping to build livelihoods and regions, which has a "take-off" effect day in, day out.
With full sails, we continue to do everything we can to ensure that our entrepreneurs become and remain champions!
Cordially,
Willi Helbling
CEO
125 new companies were selected in the 2022 project year.
We welcomed 3,033 participants to our seminars and training courses
New learning videos make our seminars even more exciting.
You can find more highlights in our review of the year
Thanks to BPN's value-based work, more and more entrepreneurs are opting for our programs.
2 of our coaches each taught a seminar that they had developed themselves - in parallel with their busy day-to-day business.
At the beginning of July, over 30 entrepreneurs were welcomed to the founding of the business owners' association .
There was a strong expansion of the training courses on offer and 9 out of 10 participants rated our seminar content as "good" or "very good".
More than 150 coaching sessions and consultations were held - over a third more than in the previous year.
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the state leadership thanked BPN for its valuable work.
43 seminars and workshops with around 1,000 participants were held.
Rwanda's leading private newspaper publishes a monthly article by BPN.
We celebrated 10 years of BPN in Mongolia. What a privilege!
37 seminars, webinars and workshops with 583 participants (+48 % compared to 2021) took place.
5 BPN employees passed our "Basic BPN Coaching Skills Training" with flying colors. We were able to conduct 140 coaching sessions (+25% compared to 2021).
BPN can now intensify its work in the up-and-coming south of Kyrgyzstan.
were included in the BPN program - the last time this happened was 7 years ago.
The visit was a success for all participants - we look forward to continuing in 2023.
Thank you very much! Contributions from various funding foundations, donations from the Founders Circle, training and country donations have made this possible, entrepreneurs in BPN countries and to secure jobs and create new ones.
Other sources of income included income from seminars and interest in our program countries totalling CHF 825,143, which, however, does not appear in the BPN Foundation's annual financial statements and is used directly in the respective program countries for local costs.
The income statement is an excerpt from BPN's 2022 annual financial statements. The full annual financial statements, including the cash flow statement, changes in fund capital and notes, can be downloaded at www.bpn.ch/downloads or requested from us.
Thank you for your generous donations!
The BPN (Business Professionals Network) Foundation, based in Switzerland, has been active since 1999 and operates in 5 countries: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nicaragua and Rwanda.
We support small and medium-sized entrepreneurs in our partner countries with the aim of securing and creating jobs in the long term and thus contributing to local economic development.
Information on the top management body and the members of the Executive Board can be found here.
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