Alice Layton
social impact entrepreneur
- Role
- Co-founder at Wabbani
- Location
- Alton, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alice Layton
As a social entrepreneur, program designer and director, university instructor and career…
Experience
Co-founder
Feb 2018 — Present · St. Louis, MO, US
Wabbani is a social enterprise that produces handmade, culturally-authentic furniture and home décor in the Rupununi region of Guyana, sold in Guyana and internationally at http://Wabbani.com. Among our products are handmade add-ons that fit the exact specifications of IKEA products, preserving culture and habitat together.Wabbani is the joint project of 2 nonprofits, Rupununi Learners Foundation (a US 501c3) and Caiman House Incorporated, a Guyanese Nonprofit Corporation, that have partnered since 2007 to support Caiman House Field Station, which hosts the Yupukari Public Library, the ecotourist guesthouse known as “Caiman House,” and several community-run conservation projects, with black caiman, jaguar and yellow-spotted sideneck Amazon river turtles.Together we have raised the pass rate into secondary school from near zero to 86%; have been the area\'s largest nongovernmental employer, and provided a local market for farmers and craftspeople. See http://caimanhouse.com and http://rupununilearners.org
Education
Yeshiva University
MSW
University of Missouri-Columbia
MLS
Yale University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Skills
- Nonprofits
- Grant Writing
- Program Development
- Policy Analysis
- Event Planning
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Social Media
- Social Entrepreneurship
- International Development
- Social Impact
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Research
- Human Rights
- Fundraising
- Philanthropy
- Social Media Marketing
- Volunteer Management
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