21^st Century Leaders

Sage North America, along with Emory Goizueta Business School are partnering with 21st Century Leaders, a coalition of local business leaders focused on supporting young entrepreneurs, for a two-day event in February 2017. The Goizueta Youth Leadership Summit will help foster business skills, provide essential networking opportunities and education needed to succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

Campus North

Sage is a proud supporter of Campus North in Newcastle, supporting our common vision of fostering early-stage technology start-ups. Campus North is recognised as one of the best co-working and event spaces for tech meet-ups, start-ups and established businesses in Europe and is home to Ignite, the UK's leading angel-led accelerator programme for ambitious digital start-ups.

The Sage Classroom provides financial and business advice to founders, developers and freelancers as well as 7500 or so people coming to community-focused meetups and workshops.

Doteveryone

In 2016 Sage UKI became a strategic partner of Doteveryone, established by Martha Lane Fox following her BBC Dimbleby lecture in 2015. Doteveryone exists to understand and address the new set of moral and social challenges that have arrived with the internet. Their mission is to make the internet work for everyone, running projects such as Designing Digital Libraries for a Digital Age and 5050tech Challenge.

Institut du Mentorat Entrepreneurial (l’IME) and Moovjee

In 2006 Sage France partnered with l’IME (Institut du Mentorat Entrepreneurial) and the Moovjee, to support entrepreneurs to manage their growth.

IME promotes mentorship to secure and accelerate the growth of small and medium businesses with high development potential through the transfer of experience from entrepreneur to entrepreneur. The outcome is in an increasing number of scale ups in France and creation of new jobs. Moovjee is about mentoring and focuses on young entrepreneurs (18 to 30 year old entrepreneurs).

Junior Achievement

The Sage Foundation has a Junior Achievement Storefront in “BizTown” located at the Georgia World Congress Centre. The Storefront, which received more than 15,000 middle school students annually, introduces youth to the concept of what it means to build a business, how to succeed in the global economy and why finance is important to entrepreneurism.

Small Business BC Awards

For the last four consecutive years, Sage Canada has been a major sponsor of the Small Business BC Awards to celebrate significant marketing achievements and innovation amongst small businesses registered in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Small Business BC Awards is the largest small business awards competition in the province. Each of the 10 Small Business BC award categories helps recognize the outstanding achievements of BC’s entrepreneurs, and celebrates the contributions that new and existing businesses with fewer than 50 employees make to their local communities and to the global economy.

Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs Associations (CEAJE)

Sage has signed an agreement with CEAJE with the aim of boosting competitiveness, innovation and internationalisation among young entrepreneurs through the technological solutions of Sage. Across 55 associations in Spain, 20,000 young entrepreneurs will benefit from Sage tools in all areas of business management including accounting and billing, payroll, CRM, and e-Commerce.

CEAJE support young entrepreneurs and business builders through motivating, orienting, promoting and channelling their initiatives, as well as promoting entrepreneurial culture and development for Spain.