Graduates of the Bahamas Urban Youth Development Centre’s four-week course display their certificates following their graduation exercise. Also in attendance were Minister of Social Services Frankie Campbell (seated, second right), Department of Gender and Family Affairs Director Dr Jacinta Higgs (seated, second left) and Bahamas Urban Youth Development Centre President and CEO Prodesta Moore (seated, right). (BIS PHOTO/PATRICK HANNA)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS The Templeton Foundation’s $25,000 grant to local NGO the Bahamas Urban Youth Development Centre (BUYDC) is projected to provide new business opportunities for 18 aspiring entrepreneurs who recently graduated from the center after a four-week training programme.
BUYDC is one of the local NGOs certified and registered as non-profit organizations in accordance with the Non-Profit Organization Act, 2019, as a result of a collaboration between the Office of the Attorney General and two of its agencies, and the Department of G
Minister of Social Services Frankie Campbell and Department of Gender and Family Affairs Director Dr Jacinta Higgs hold a copy of a certificate signifying that registrants now meet the requisite compliance structures of the Non-Profit Organization Act, 2019, which will allow them greater opportunities to access grant funding at the national, regional and international levels. (BIS PHOTO/MATT MAURA)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Officials at the Department of Gender and Family Affairs, Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, have partnered with counterparts at the Office of the Attorney General to register almost 600 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout the Commonwealth of The Bahamas as non-profit organizations.