{"id":5935,"date":"2020-08-14T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:35:05","slug":"harnessing-an-entrepreneurial-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2020\/08\/14\/harnessing-an-entrepreneurial-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing an Entrepreneurial Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/08\/Allen_Kendunga-600x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5936\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/08\/Allen_Kendunga-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/08\/Allen_Kendunga-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/08\/Allen_Kendunga-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/08\/Allen_Kendunga-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/08\/Allen_Kendunga.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Bates student, Allen Kendunga \u201918 was deeply involved in the off-campus community as a Bonner Leader, working at Tree Street Youth, the Center for Wisdom&#8217;s Women, the Franco-American Heritage Center, Blake Street Towers, and the Aspirations Program in Auburn Public Schools. In addition, she was passionate about social enterprise and entrepreneurship and was recognized as a finalist for a Davis Projects for Peace grant to combat youth unemployment in Rwanda by providing career-related services such as career coaching, skill-building, and social enterprise training for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen continues this work today as the founder of Talent Match, a social venture based in Kigali, Rwanda that seeks to bridge the skills gap among youth by identifying, training, and connecting their talents to opportunities across Rwanda. In less than a year of operation, they have trained more than 55 youth from 10 different colleges and TVETs (Technical and Vocational Education and Training).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/to-fdvoiubQ\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to watch a short video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Bates student, Allen Kendunga \u201918 was deeply involved in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10329,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions\/10329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}