The Programs

Aspiring Entrepreneurs helps youth discover and develop their life-long entrepreneurial potential by concentrating on the building blocks of success – personal leadership, professional skills development, financial management and entrepreneurial thinking. The curriculum used is dynamic, rigorous and aligned to national entrepreneurship education standards.

•Introduction to Entrepreneurship

•Personal Financial Management

•Communications

•Personal Ownership

•Professional Etiquette

•Connection with entrepreneurship as a potential career and life-long problem solving strategy

•Development of strong interpersonal, professional, and technological communication skills

•Completion of a personal, professional, and academic success road map

•Preparation for effectively managing financial resources to support personal success

Emerging Entrepreneurs brings entrepreneurship to life through intensive business ownership experience. Participants work in teams to identify an entrepreneurial opportunity, prepare a business for launch, then run a profitable enterprise. Along the journey, young entrepreneurs work to develop independent business concepts that reflect and support their unique talents and interests.

•Entrepreneurial Leadership & Ethics

•Value Chain Analysis & Conscious Consumerism

•Project & Resource Management

•Community-Based Networking, Education & Outreach

•Entrepreneurial Action Planning

•Application of high level entrepreneurial & leadership skills

•Advancement of opportunity seeking and risk assessment skills

•Development of professional networks through business management

•Creation of a personalized, independent business model for future launch

Entrepreneurial Leaders is where YouthBiz participants realize their entrepreneurial dreams and take ownership of their futures. This capstone program is completely tailored to, and driven by, the participant, offering access to the specific resources they need to maximize their success.

•Individual success coaching

•Specialized business management training

•Access to marketplaces

•Access to venture capital

•Access to industry specific mentorship

•Academic planning and scholarship support

•Increased income through venture ownership

•Increased earning potential through skill and experience development

•Increased academic performance through the pursuit of a targeted and relevant course of study

•Increased resiliency through practiced risk and opportunity assessment

•Increased connection to community through the development of a dynamic business network