Youth Entrepeneurship

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Best Practice for Youth Entrepreneurship: NFTE: The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, or NFTE, provides at-risk youth from 11 to 18 years with the necessary tools to become academically solid, fully engaged, capable members of society. Learn more about the history and practices of this standard-setting youth entrepreneurship program.
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The Benefits of Youth Entrepreneurship Training: What the Research Shows: Multiple studies indicate the positive benefits of youth entrepreneurship. Use these findings to help “make the case” for your new initiative among potential funders and volunteers.
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Guest Entrepreneur Talking Points: This form will help your guest speakers get oriented to the kinds of issues and questions they should be prepared to discuss when they visit your program to make a presentation.
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Curriculum Review of Creating True Wealth: Christian Youth Entrepreneurship: This summarizes the main themes and lessons of this explicitly Biblical, multi-week entrepreneurship curriculum for teens.
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Curriculum Review of You’re the Boss: Lifeskills & Entrepreneurship Program: This is a detailed overview of the "You’re the Boss" youth entrepreneurship curriculum by veteran practitioner/teacher Bonnie Drew.
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Youth Entrepreneurship Toolkit: The programs from which these tools are drawn do a good job of incorporating a strong sense of business ethics among student participants, as well as emphasizing life skills that reach beyond the business sphere.
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Ways to Enhance Your Entrepreneurship Program: Try out these ideas to add some spice to your program.
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Recommended Books
Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way: A Story of Black Entrepreneurship: This is a book full of examples and historical accounts of successful black entrepreneurs since the time of slavery. It incorporates lessons on entrepreneurship to teach today’s black youth how to earn money.
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The New Youth Entrepreneur: Instructor’s Guide: This comprehensive curriculum includes 12 modules that walk students through the process of understanding entrepreneurship, identifying business opportunities, evaluating different business ideas, learning record-keeping skills and protocols, and writing business plans.
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You’re the Boss: Lifeskills & Entrepreneurship Program: This is a comprehensive curriculum, providing lesson plans and learning activities to teach youth about starting businesses. Designed for grades 6-12, the curriculum consists of a Leader’s Guide and a Student’s Guide and is sufficient as a stand-alone resource.
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How to Start & Operate a Small Business: This is a comprehensive how-to book for teenage entrepreneurs seeking to launch a small business venture, written by the leading nonprofit in the arena of youth entrepreneurship.
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Creating True Wealth: Christian Youth Entrepreneurship: This Manual, Facilitator's Guide and Student Workbook are "designed to help young people develop a biblical view on entrepreneurship and godly character in the marketplace."
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Recommended Links
EDTEC, Inc.: EDTEC, Inc. offers many resources in the areas of entrepreneurship training and management consulting services. Its signature product is The New Youth Entrepreneur (available in English and Spanish).
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Entrenuity: Entrenuity is dedicated to helping educators and youth directors to instruct today’s youth in developing entrepreneurial skills with a Christian worldview.
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Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education: This Web site contains links to other organizations providing information about youth entrepreneurship programs, free teaching materials online, and articles about why entrepreneurship education is important.
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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: This Web site provides a listing of programs and resources available for teaching entrepreneurship to children and teens.
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Entrepreneurship Education on the Web: This Web site has links to other youth entrepreneurship Web sites that provide helpful information to youth themselves, and to organizations involved in youth entrepreneurship programs.
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Youth Entrepreneurship Organizations and Programs in the United States: This Web site provides descriptions and contact information about many youth entrepreneurship programs across the country.
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