Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota, recently published an article about Sisterhood Boutique, a secondhand clothing store in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis that serves as a hands-on entrepreneurial experience for young women in the area. The program, which offers four-month internships that help build and develop the business skills of young women aged 16-21, recently celebrated its second anniversary.
Included in the article was an interview with Yasameen Sajady ’11, an Augsburg College alumna who was hired as the social enterprise manager at Pillsbury United Communities, which owns the store and oversees the internship program as the business grows. The internships begin in the classroom, but quickly shift to the storefront. 鈥淚n the first two weeks, we really hit hard on the skills that you would need to be successful,鈥� Sajady said. 鈥淎nd then they鈥檙e put on the job.鈥�
Read A 鈥榤ultilayered鈥� enterprise on the Minnesota Daily site.