ORGANIZATIONS

 

(The following are from Saint LouisUniversity -eWeb)      

 

Organizations’ that are empowering youth to create their own ventures:

 

IndependentMeans.com

: Focused on helping under-20 women find an income of their own, but relevant for everyone. Offers several dozen short articles on all sorts of aspects of getting a business started or preparing yourself for eventual self-employment. They will eventually have an online directory of teen businesses.

 

Youngbiz.com

: This is a website that got started focusing on youth investing in the stock market with a small section on youth entrepreneurship. Today it is one of the best sites on the web for youth entrepreneurship. Features include profiles of the top 100 companies by teens, a very complete set of online articles on teens (which they call 'treps) starting businesses. There is a members only section which requires a fee, but the free materials are plentiful and very good.

 

Youngentrepreneur.org: This website focuses on young entrepreneurs in OrangeCountyCA

. Highlights  some of the local K-12 entrepreneurs and links to established (and not very youth oriented) sites like the SBA or the California SBDC. (Checked July 2003). Grade: C

 

Youthventure.org

: An organization that rallies teams of youth to develop businesses to help their communities. It is one of the few websites to actually have online material of use to prospective youth entrepreneurs, including advice on getting started and success stories. Their Resources pages give examples of kid-started businesses organized by industry and geographic region.

 

 

Organizations helping to develop youth entrepreneurship through adults:

 

About.com's Kids in Business List:

Ed Martin's gives a variety of places, mostly those which assist adults helping kids start their own businesses.

 

The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education:

 Offers cases, success stories, projects, and activities accessible from here. 

 

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation:

Has a series of programs to promote youth entrepreneurship ranging from Mother and Daughter Entrepreneurs in Teams (MADE-IT) to an entrepreneurship merit badge they developed with the Boy Scouts. They offer a curriculum called The New Youth Entrepreneur targeted at teens, as well as a Mini-Society that starts as young as 8.

Junior Achievement:

  Offers a series of programs for K-12 which talks more about economic issues than starting a business.

 

 

Kidsway.com:

Provides a (in print, not digital) magazine and online bulletin boards for students, parents and teachers on entrepreneurship.

 

Kids Inventing Toys:

A website about a summer camp showcasing the toys campers invent. Click on "Webpages By KIT Kids".

 

National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship:

NFTE has an adult-lead program for training teens in entrepreneurship. One of the most widely used curricula in the country, NFTE has expanded into camps and more diverse publishing. They have an online teaching program, called BizTech, but it’s only available to kids through the sponsorship of adult-run organizations.

 

Nebraska Student Enterprise Zone:

Ideas for student lead businesses, along the lines of the Junior Achievement model.

 

 

Opens.org:

  Quaker program focused on start-up education for middle school students.

 

 

OPENAIR-MARKET NET:

The World Wide Guide to Farmers' Markets, Street Markets, Flea Markets and Street Vendors provides a listing of websites tied into these low-cost forums for selling. Not strictly youth oriented, but a place for youth to try their selling skills with little up-front cost.

 

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE): Focused on college-aged students. One of the major national organizations underlying college "entrepreneurship clubs." 

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

(The following are available from Education, Training and EnterpriseCenter) 

 

New Youth Entrepreneur Curriculum

 

Nearly 20,000 sets of this original highly respected New Youth Entrepreneur curriculum have been sold worldwide. It has been evaluated and found to be highly effective. Available in both English and Spanish.

 

 

New Youth Entrepreneur Instructor's Guide

 

A 239 page companion manual to the 12 module curriculum. Available with the purchase of 10 sets of NYE curriculum or free with Classroom Kit. 

 

New Youth Entrepreneur Classroom Kit

 

The original New Youth Entrepreneur workbook curriculum delivered in convenient Adobe® Acrobat® electronic format on CD-ROM.

 

 

New Youth Entrepreneur Interactive

 

The latest version of the New Youth Entrepreneur curriculum in an all-new, exciting, fully-animated interactive format.

Christen B. Yates cCYS