Together, We Provide a Path to Self-Reliance

Donations assist individuals and families in developing nations to establish businesses with free entrepreneurship training and ongoing support.

Honor the place that gave you so much—by giving back.

Give back to a country that shaped you by helping locals build businesses, strengthen families, and create opportunities that last.

Continue giving back to the place that changed your life.

Your mission didn’t end. It just evolved. Help provide local members facing job insecurity with faith-based, basic business training.

Igniting the entrepreneurial mindset in faith-driven people through training and support to create more abundant lives

34,378

Total New Businesses Created

147,793

Total Graduates

81%

Improved Quality of Life

84%

Increased Personal Income

88%

Increased Commitment to Serve

Chapter Map

Provide a path to sustainable self-reliance.

Empowering Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Academy ACT NOW members receive action-based business training and ongoing support.

Phase 1: START NOW

Members begin the journey to sustainable self-reliance by implementing practical knowledge and income-generating activities.

Phase 2: GROW NOW

Members progress along the path to self-reliance by actively participating in monthly chapter meetings and advancing their business plans.

Phase 3: EXPAND NOW

Members increase their self-reliance through chapter meetings and significant business expansion.

Phase 4: GIVE NOW

Members give back by volunteering in local chapter leadership and mentoring others along the path of sustainable self-reliance.


“I am very grateful for the self-reliance courses and for the Academy. They have motivated and taught me how to start and grow a business. Today we support our house with the sales of these products! Thanks to Start Now, we learned that we can start a business and achieve self-reliance through entrepreneurship.”

Maria Rosângela | Brazil


“Due to my country’s difficult economic and employment situation, I felt that I should take the ‘My Business’ Academy course. I was able to recognize the skills and gifts I already possessed to start my own business and with guidance from our Heavenly Father, we set out to create our own automotive paint technician business.”

Carlos Ruiz | Colombia