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Organization: Global Brigades in Canada
Organization: Global Brigades United Kingdom
Organization: Global Brigades USA
Organization: SQUADS ABROAD
Chapter: Legal Empowerment at SOAS University of London
Chapter: Athena Empowered Business Consulting
Chapter: Business Academy by Global Brigades
Chapter: Business Brigades at Brooklyn College
Chapter: Business Brigades at Florida International University
Chapter: Business Brigades at Michigan State University
Chapter: Business Chapter at University of Massachusetts Boston
Chapter: Business Consulting Brigades at Western University
Chapter: Business Consulting Chapter at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at Florida A&M University
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting Program at Case Western Reserve University
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at Brigham Young University Idaho
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at University of Georgia
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at University of St Andrews
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting Program at University of St. Andrew's
Chapter: Engineering Consulting Chapter at Florida State University
Chapter: Florida A&M University Legal Empowerment Chapter
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at Queen Mary University of London
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at San Diego State University
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Medical Brigades at Athena

Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Environmental Brigades

About Us

Brigham Young University Idaho is a chapter of Global Business Brigades, an international movement of university students and professionals building economic opportunities in the developing world. We work alongside promising entrepreneurs and experienced year-round staff to create financial opportunities in remote, rural, and under resourced areas of Honduras, Ghana, Belize, Greece, and Panama. We work with communities to build community-owned banks to provide access to loans, savings accounts and financial literacy for community members. Volunteers assist in consulting micro-enterprises, assessing loan capacity payments and providing financial literacy workshops to families. In conjunction with our Business Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.



Upcoming Initiatives

Brigham Young University Idaho Empowered Business Consulting August 2026 Panama

Global Brigades offers 7-day Business Brigades throughout the year in Honduras, Panama and Ghana. Business Brigades volunteers empowers rural communities in Panama without access to financial services and business guidance by providing micro-enterprise counseling, financial planning assistance and strategic investment. During the brigade, volunteers divide into small groups to conduct client visits in which they get to know the client and assess each client’s level of financial competency, entrepreneurial aspirations, and/or business knowledge. Volunteers then provide educational and capacity building assistance in the form of workshops. Topics range from personal finance to basic accounting and business planning.