Training, mentoring, microfinance, and business incubation – through Refugee Innovation Centres, for example – could encourage self-reliance.
The businesses usually provide community organisations with skill training, mentoring, volunteering or financial support.
This will lead to a pool of high-quality BAME candidates, providing training, mentoring and deployment opportunities for those individuals".
It achieves this by providing vocational training, mentoring and other support in the skill-shortage area of painting and decorating.
Detroit's three automakers have minority dealer development programs, which have provided training, mentoring and loans to prospective dealers.
It is a 13-month marketing trainee programme, with a proper salary, training, mentoring and a good chance of a full-time job at the end.
Through immersion training, mentoring and working with real-world clients, these women can overcome their difficult circumstances, said Donna Kent, senior vice president at Televerde.
Business-backed educational scholarships, skills training, mentoring programmes and the like would all help provide pathways to self-sufficiency, he insists.
Elaine L. Chao, the labor secretary, said the programs would "provide job training, mentoring and other services to prepare returning ex-offenders for new lives as productive workers".
Marketing experts say that cold-calling in general has become more sophisticated since the era of Willy Loman, with training, mentoring and recruiting efforts sharpened at many companies.
