InterCulture Foundation supports projects and initiatives that create bridges across cultures, political perspectives and communities in order to foster understanding, compassion, and collaboration through education, business ventures, health and storytelling.
MOBI’s (My Own Business Institute, University of Santa Clara) online courses teach new entrepreneurs how to start a business. Students learn how to pick a business, how to finance it, how to attract customers, and how to create a successful team. Over 15,000 have completed at least one of the online courses. MOBI provides the curriculum for VSB, as well as assessment tools to measure the beneficiaries’ progress.
VEDAMO is an online platform for live collaborative teaching, specifically designed and used for education. It was developed through many interactions with students and tutors; it is simple and intuitive for non-technically savvy users. VEDAMO’s team has a strong background in tutoring and pedagogy – it participates in educational research and development of online teaching guidelines. VEDAMO will take care of the infrastructure of VSB, technical and online teaching support.