Explore Possibilities!

While entrepreneurial skills can be learned at any age, they are best offered and learned at the age when kids are at the stage of excitement about making their own money and developing their own ventures. Entrepreneurial tools can be taught, supported, and facilitated by a program that is naturally geared to their interests, learning styles, educational levels, attention spans, natural creativity, and eagerness to play. The teen years are the time of ripe imagination, soaring ideas, and fearless effort. We direct this energy to help kids to build on their talents and to leverage their strengths

While kids make money baby sitting, mowing lawns, or walking dogs, they may be interested in making money in ways that integrate their talents, and that help them learn about the world. We can help them to turn these traditional “jobs” into viable – and fun – businesses, much in the way Glynn Llyod, currently the CEO of City Fresh Foods, turned his high school lawn-mowing job into a neighborhood landscape business while providing employment opportunities for his friends.

Today's kids are eager to learn, and to make a difference. They also want to have fun!

Fortunately, these are great times. We live in a world where information flows freely, where we can easily reach others, where setting up a business does not cost much, and where the e-matrix that connects us all helps us to find people in our communities (and even on the other side of the world) that just might buy what we have to sell (ebooks, cards, baseball hats, photos, CDs, etc).

A few examples: at age 12, Richie Stachowski invented several toys that allowed divers to speak underwater. A few years later, in 1999, Wild Planet Toys purchased his company, Short Stack. A 17- year- old built an advertisers' supported financial news portal, Investors Alley. Another 17- year- old created Whateverlife, a top opinion teen influencer site also making money from advertising. And while not all kids become millionaires like these ones, all kids can learn financial and business skills.

In KidzBusiness classes, students learn to explore their talents through active practice, role play and games. We take a pragmatic, hands-on teaching approach and emphasize team work. In the process, students learn important skills such as developing and testing a prototype for their business, selling and making money. At the end of the course, students may choose to make money with a small solo venture, engage in community or non-profit work, or they may want to fundraise for great causes.

Whether they will be running their small business, making the most of college, or starting work with a company, entrepreneurial skills are great to develop early in life.

“Thank you for your time and for defining for us what business is. I believe that every person has the capability to do anything they want to do in life if they put forth the effort. This workshop was very inspirational and informative. I am grateful for the challenges you gave me and how you taught me to spread word and advertise my product. Thanks for opening new perspectives for us!”

Green Corps participant

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