	What We Do & How We Do It Origins Governing Board Partners

We help women in regions of conflict and post-conflict build businesses to sustain their families and strengthen their abilities to foster peace.

Partners of Every Dimension Expand Our Effectiveness

Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) members who volunteer their time can best be described as business strategists, passionate facilitators and orchestrators—well-networked to make things happen. Through the personal and business relationships of our members, we have worked with these partner organizations:

Retailers interested in carrying products from Rwanda and Afghanistan including Gracious Home, M Z WALLACE, Roberta Freymann and Sons & Daughters.
Social entrepreneurs who would like to connect, invest or work with emerging businesswomen in these regions, including Bajalia Trading Company, Claire V. LLC, EDImports, Global Girlfriend, Samira Atash, Tarsian & Blinkley, and Tashakor.
Corporate supporters looking to assist with our work through training, in-kind donations and grants. These include: AIM Productions, Air Train Airways, Banc of America Specialist, Coach, circles, dressbarn, Eileen Fisher, Emerson Resort & Spa, Estée Lauder, 5 Ninth, Friedman Electric, Hilton Hotels, Kenneth Cole Productions, Kirk Palmer and Associates, Pantone, Inc., PeaceKeeper Cause-metics, PR Newswire, Putamayo, Redken, Ritz-Carlton Battery Park, Samsonite, Sephora, Snapple, Unilever, Whole Foods Market and Women's Health Magazine.
Non-profit and non-government organizations in the US and overseas, including the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC), the Afghan Women's Business Council, the Afghan Women's Business Federation, Aid to Artisans, AVEGA, CARE, Great Lakes Consortium for International Training and Development, Mercy Corps, Rwanda Knits, Rwandan Private Sector Federation, Rwanda Women's Network, The US-Afghanistan Reconstruction Council (US-ARC), UNIFEM, Women for Afghan Women and Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO).
Government agencies and ministries including the Office of Citizen Exchanges of the US Department of State, National Women's Business Council, US Department of Commerce, Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce, Embassy of Afghanistan, Rwandan Ministry of Commerce and the Rwandan Ministry of Public Works.
Universities: Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, Deming Scholars MBA Program at Fordham University, Dubai Women's College, Fashion Institute of Technology, Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST), Project Artemis at Thunderbird and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.