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YouthBiz Out of the Box

Life lessons through business ownership. YouthBiz Out of the Box empowers your students through entrepreneurship!  In this 15-session program, students will: Create business teams around shared interests and complementary skills. Select a product they want to create, choosing the materials and procedure they need to make 20 high quality, finished goods. Complete all of their own financial calculations, marketing, and ...
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YouthBiz StartUp

Learn, think, speak, act like an entrepreneur YouthBiz StartUp provides middle and high school students with the basic building blocks of success through an engaging curriculum and hands-on activities. In this 15-session program, students will: Learn about themselves and others Compose their own power team Develop a business idea Create a prototype Pitch their business to a panel of judges ...
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YouthBiz Programs + Events

YouthBiz programs enable youth to learn, think, speak, and act like entrepreneurs.  Learn about each of our programs and events by clicking the links below. Programs YOUTHBIZ STARTUP Middle and high school students gain the basic building blocks of success through an engaging curriculum and hands-on activities in this 15-session curriculum. YOUTHBIZ OUT OF THE BOX Upper middle and high ...
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Why YouthBiz

Filling a void YouthBiz programs fill a void in entrepreneurial education and youth development programming.  At the collegiate level, entrepreneurship education is increasingly commonplace as a stand-alone degree or an integrative core requirement.  At the middle and high school levels, however, entrepreneurship is seldom explored or considered a viable career option. Entrepreneurship as Empowerment Entrepreneurship is rarely utilized as a tool to ...
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YouthBiz – Our Story

YouthBiz was launched in 1992 in the heart of Denver’s Five Points community during a summer with record numbers of youth-on-youth violence fueled by gang wars and a struggling local economy. Eight inner-city teens, together with a visionary community leader, stepped up to be part of the solution, creating a series of entrepreneurial projects to increase income and build translatable ...

YouthBiz Landing Page

YouthBiz is a hub for entrepreneurial thinking and action.   YouthBiz CREATES entreprenurial leaders.   YouthBiz helps young entrepreneurs make BIG AND BOLD LEAPS to be leaders in business, education and the community.   YouthBiz programs are ACCESSIBLE to all Colorado Youth.   YouthBiz has served 19,258 young people since 1987.   We can help you LAUNCH YOUR BUSINESS and YOUR FUTURE!   ...

Students Busy at YouthBiz

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March has been a busy month so far for students and leaders in our YouthBiz program!  Preparations are well underway for the YouthBiz Spring Marketplace, which will be held Saturday, April 29 at Young Americans Center in Denver.  This biannual event showcases youth entrepreneurs who sell everything from soap to burritos to getting cards.  There are still booths available, but they …

Entrepreneurship Spring Break Camp

  SPRING INTO ENTREPRENEURSHIP!! YouthBiz and the Denver Public Library have collaborated to bring an entrepreneurial focused program to the Library! Instructors will provide engaging curriculum and activities that will enable participants to learn, think, speak, and act like entrepreneurs! Participants will learn entrepreneurial skills to 21st century skills including; critical thinking and reasoning, information literacy, collaboration, self-direction, and invention. …

Gifts Galore Sold at Holiday Marketplaces

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On the first two Saturdays of December, Young Americans Center for Financial Education hosted over 100 businesses at our Denver and Belmar locations. These youth-owned and operated businesses ranged from home baked goods to marshmallow slingshots. Returning and first-time sellers showed great promise and excitement in selling their products to eager shoppers. New business owner Lily Blessings of Lily’s Little …

Young Entrepreneurs Impress at YouthBiz Winter Forum

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It’s been a great three months of hard work, problem solving, business creation, team selection, public speaking and critical thinking at YouthBiz! On Wednesday, December 14th YouthBiz graduated its fall cohort of young entrepreneurs from the Aspiring Entrepreneur (AE) an entry-level class that teaches participants how to think, learn, speak, and act like entrepreneurs and Emerging Entrepreneur (EE) programs. Participants pitched their …